[mythtv-commits] Ticket #12898: mythtv-frontend wont install

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#12898: mythtv-frontend wont install
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     Reporter:  boec0025@…           |      Owner:
         Type:  Bug Report -         |     Status:  new
  General                            |
     Priority:  major                |  Milestone:  unknown
    Component:  MythTV - General     |    Version:  0.28.0
     Severity:  medium               |   Keywords:  mythtv-frontend mythtv-
Ticket locked:  0                    |  common
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 okay, so i have been using myth for years.  now i am running mythbuntu for
 about 4 years and it has worked great until apparently this weekend.  i
 did some myth updates and then got a message that some programs no longer
 used would be uninstalled.  i think that is where this happened.

 apprently i took off myth frontend and even worse is it will not re-
 install on mythbuntu 16.04.  i get the error that says it needs mythtv-
 common but that will not be installed.  well, of course it wont, it is
 already installed.

 so i decided to try removing the backend and then putting it all back on
 and myth-frontend will not install with whatever version of myth-common
 that is on there even though they have the same version number.  so i can
 get the backend on and running but the frontend will not install because
 of some issue with mythtv-common.

 [code]
 # apt policy mythtv-frontend
 mythtv-frontend:
   Installed: (none)
   Candidate: 2:0.28.0+fixes.20161010.7c91ab6-0ubuntu0mythbuntu2
   Version table:
      2:0.28.0+fixes.20161010.7c91ab6-0ubuntu0mythbuntu2 500
         500 http://ppa.launchpad.net/mythbuntu/0.28/ubuntu xenial/main
 amd64 Packages
         100 /var/lib/dpkg/status
      2:0.28.0+fixes.20160413.15cf421-0ubuntu2 500
         500 http://us.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu xenial/multiverse amd64
 Packages
 # apt policy mythtv-common
 mythtv-common:
   Installed: 2:0.28.0+fixes.20161010.7c91ab6-0ubuntu0mythbuntu2
   Candidate: 2:0.28.0+fixes.20161010.7c91ab6-0ubuntu0mythbuntu2
   Version table:
  *** 2:0.28.0+fixes.20161010.7c91ab6-0ubuntu0mythbuntu2 500
         500 http://ppa.launchpad.net/mythbuntu/0.28/ubuntu xenial/main
 amd64 Packages
         100 /var/lib/dpkg/status
      2:0.28.0+fixes.20160413.15cf421-0ubuntu2 500
         500 http://us.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu xenial/multiverse amd64
 Packages
 # apt-get install mythtv-frontend
 Reading package lists... Done
 Building dependency tree
 Reading state information... Done
 Some packages could not be installed. This may mean that you have
 requested an impossible situation or if you are using the unstable
 distribution that some required packages have not yet been created
 or been moved out of Incoming.
 The following information may help to resolve the situation:

 The following packages have unmet dependencies:
  mythtv-frontend : Depends: mythtv-common but it is not going to be
 installed
 E: Unable to correct problems, you have held broken packages.
 [/code]

 ...but again, mythtv-common is already installed and the latest version.

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Ticket URL: <https://code.mythtv.org/trac/ticket/12898>
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