How to start Libreelec without kodi ? only cli

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    Hello everyone. I would like to know if there is a way to start libreelec without kodi gui only cli. I dont want to spend resources on kodi .. as kodi eats more then half of the ram.

    Hi escalade and thanks for the reply . I want to use it as vpn client and maybe run some web server on the box that's why i don't need kodi ( i won't use it as media player) . If i put sleep loop how could i use it at all ? i wont be able to ssh or do whatever ?

    Hi 2re. Thanks for the repy. Here is the output after issuing "systemctl stop kodi" (the command didn't helped much ) :

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    LibreELEC:~/install # free -m
total       used       free     shared    buffers     cached
Mem:           343        177        166          0         10        101
-/+ buffers/cache:         64        278
Swap:          255          0        255

    and here you can find my hw that's why i suppose that libreelec reserves more then half of the ram at boot time. I have even tried to disable starting of kodi with systemctl disable kodi and rest of the kodi services but after reboot they have started again.

    You can do that by masking the kodi systemd service, plus maybe some others you don't need/want (eventlircd etc)

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    systemctl mask kodi

    Only drawback is that then you have to care about addon updates / installation yourself.

    Search the forum, we've discussed that before.

    so long,

    Hias

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    The autostart.sh file is the last thing that's run before Kodi starts, so the system is otherwise fully booted. So creating a sleep loop there will prevent Kodi from starting.

    I'm still confused as to what you are going to do next. You realize that LibreELEC is not a standard Linux distribution with a package manager, right? There's no webserver shipped with LibreELEC. There is OpenVPN so you can set up your box as a VPN client, but then what?