[mythtv-users] Upgrading to 0.23.1

Greg Oliver oliver.greg at gmail.com
Sat Sep 4 17:40:33 UTC 2010


On Sat, Sep 4, 2010 at 8:20 AM, Harry Devine <lifter89 at comcast.net> wrote:
> On 9/3/2010 11:34 PM, Thomas Mashos wrote:
>
> On Fri, Sep 3, 2010 at 6:27 PM, Harry Devine <lifter89 at comcast.net> wrote:
>>
>> On 9/2/2010 10:26 PM, Glen Hawksworth wrote:
>>
>> On Thu, 2010-09-02 at 21:50 -0400, Harry Devine wrote:
>>
>> On 9/2/2010 9:25 PM, Glen Hawksworth wrote:
>> > On Thu, 2010-09-02 at 20:09 -0400, Harry Devine wrote:
>> >> I saw a few posts a few weeks ago concerning updating to 0.23.1, so I
>> >> followed what they said to update my system.  However, I don't think it
>> >> has taken.  I installed an updated mythbuntu-repos package that the
>> >> Update Manager had listed.  I also updated my /etc/apt/sources.list
>> >> file
>> >> to include the following (please note that I'm still on Mythbuntu
>> >> 9.10):
>> >>
>> >> deb http://ppa.launchpad.net/mythbuntu/0.23.1/ubuntu lucid main
>> >> deb-src http://ppa.launchpad.net/mythbuntu/0.23.1/ubuntu lucid main
>> >>
>> >> My Update Manager said that there was a new Myth version available
>> >> (26057), so I let it put it on.  The apt log appears like it installed
>> >> it, but when I do mythbackend --version, I get 25423, which is what
>> >> I've
>> >> been running for quite some time.  The only mythbackend app that I have
>> >> on my system is in /usr/bin.
>> >>
>> >> So, what could be going on here?  Where else can I look to diagnose
>> >> what's going on?  My system is still recording everything fine, I just
>> >> like to update to newer builds.  Just a preference of mine.
>> >>
>> >> Thanks for any help.
>> >> Harry
>> >>
>> > I have a laptop with 9.10 on it (WUBI install on wifes laptop that wont
>> > upgrade to lucid for some reason) and I have a frontend installed on it.
>> > The other day I got a message saying the network protocol didn't match.
>> > Last time I got this it was because the laptop was looking at repo 0.22
>> > while the mythTV backend is 0.23. Using the Mythbuntu Control Centre
>> > (auto builds plugin http://www.mythbuntu.org/auto-builds) I was able to
>> > switch to 0.23 builds/repos and get it going so I looked there again
>> > this time.
>> > Sure enough there were options for 0.22, 0.23 and 0.23.1
>> > All had to do was select 0.23.1, apply and then do a system update and
>> > it worked!
>> > The fact that I could get the 9.10 system successfully re-connected to
>> > my backend is the only indication that I have that 0.23.1 is
>> > successfully installed.
>> >
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>> OK, I saw that and changed it to 0.23.1.  I did a "sudo apt-get update",
>> but now all of the 0.23.1 packages are grayed out in the Update
>> Manager.  Any ideas?
>>
>> Harry
>>
>> hmmmm... not sure, I'll have another look when I get home from work.
>>
>> might be that they are not ready
>> (http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=1537358) but I haven't really
>> stretched my google-fu for that one ;-)
>>
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>> I looked at that post and it basically said "let it be; give it time;
>> it'll clear itself up".  Well, I just checked and everything is still grayed
>> out.  The only packages that are available are the new 0.23.1 myth packages
>> but I can't access them.
>>
>> So, I'm in the same boat.  Any thoughts?
>> Harry
>>
>>
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>
> You mention you did an apt-get update. What happens if you do apt-get
> upgrade?
>
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> I get the following:
>
> hdevine at hdevine-desktop:/etc$ sudo apt-get upgrade
> Reading package lists... Done
> Building dependency tree
> Reading state information... Done
> The following packages have been kept back:
>   libmyth-0.23-0 mythgallery mythmovies mythmusic mythtv-backend
> mythtv-common
>   mythtv-frontend mythtv-transcode-utils mythvideo mythweather
> 0 upgraded, 0 newly installed, 0 to remove and 10 not upgraded.
>

You might give "aptitude upgrade" a shot instead of apt-get..  I find
it doesn't "keep back" packages like apt-get does a lot of times.

-Greg


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