[mythtv-users] Installing latest xmltv/tv_grab_uk_rt in [Myth]Ubuntu 7.10?

[Mark Fraser]

On Tuesday 19 February 2008 12:18:27 Sarah Hayes wrote:
> Mark Fraser wrote:
> > On Tuesday 19 February 2008 11:21:37 nospam312 wrote:
> >>> A lot of trouble... I made the new XMLTV release yesterday.  I would
> >>> expect a new copy in the YUM repositories soon..
> >>
> >> Great.  Are the YUM repositories the standard Ubuntu ones that Update
> >> Manager uses or do I need to add a repositories somewhere to pick up
> >> these updates?  TIA.
> >
> > YUM (Yellowhat Update Manager) is for Fedora, for Ubuntu you would do:
> >
> > sudo apt-get remove xmltv
> >
> > I don't think you will get the updated version in the Ubuntu repositories
> > as they only release security updates between versions. To get the new
> > version you would have to get the source code and compile it yourself.
>
> Possibly.  Although go through the software sources menu and turn on
> 'backports' and universe.  It opens up a great deal of
> unsupported/new/unstable/broken (delete as applicable, the word "broken"
> is entirely subjective) packages for you to play with.

http://packages.ubuntu.com/hardy/xmltv shows that Hardy is using version 
0.5.50-1 which is the previous version and the one you would get if it was 
backported to Gutsy. Looks like an install from source.


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