[mythtv-users] Upgrade to Ubuntu 9.10 disasters - please help; (

[jedi]

On Mon, Jan 25, 2010 at 09:37:01PM +0000, Ben Edwards wrote:
> 2010/1/25 Lindsay Mathieson <lindsay.mathieson at gmail.com>:
> > On Tue, 26 Jan 2010 06:24:19 am Ben Edwards wrote:
> >> Not sure how to get rid of 0.21-fixes garbage and broken themes.  I have
> >> found a bunch of *myth*0.21* files and moved them to a backup directory.
> >> I did have some problems with apt-get and folowed a howto that included
> >> deleting some what I thought were cashe files.  I get this type of thing a
> >> lot:
> >
> >
> > By doing so you side stepped the package manager. You should have used apt to
> > remove the files, now its all confused.
> >
> > Your system sounds a mess - you may to consider a clean reinstall.
> 
> 'dpkg -l | grep myth | grep 21' returned nothing, I think apt-get was
> messed up.  I am currently thinking a clean install is the way to go.
> I have a mysql backup.  If I keep the media partisions I should be
> able to keep the recorded programs.

    Stuff doesn't necessarily get removed when it's uninstalled. This may
be the case for anything in "share" where the themes are. That's just a
guess. Doing a manual wipe is a good idea. You can also use the "purge"
option when removing packages.

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