[mythtv-users] Upgrading to 0.23.1

Thomas Mashos tgm4883 at gmail.com
Sun Sep 5 15:54:56 UTC 2010


On Sun, Sep 5, 2010 at 8:47 AM, Harry Devine <lifter89 at comcast.net> wrote:

>  On 9/4/2010 8:00 PM, Harry Devine wrote:
>
>>  On 9/4/2010 7:49 PM, Greg Oliver wrote:
>>
>>> On Sat, Sep 4, 2010 at 6:46 PM, Harry Devine<lifter89 at comcast.net>
>>>  wrote:
>>>
>>>> On 9/4/2010 2:48 PM, Thomas Mashos wrote:
>>>>
>>>>> 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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>>>>
>>>> Apt-get will keep back packages usually when it has to add new packages,
>>>> or
>>>> dependency issues aren't met.  Do an apt-get -s dist-upgrade.
>>>> dist-upgrade
>>>> will tell it to install those packages resolving dependency issues. -s
>>>> is
>>>> simulation, so it only shows you what it would do.
>>>>
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>>>> well, I ran "sudo aptitude upgrade" and got the following:
>>>>
>>>> hdevine at hdevine-desktop:/etc$ sudo aptitude upgrade
>>>> W: The "upgrade" command is deprecated; use "safe-upgrade" instead.
>>>> Reading package lists... Done
>>>> Building dependency tree
>>>> Reading state information... Done
>>>> Reading extended state information
>>>> Initializing package states... Done
>>>> Writing extended state information... Done
>>>> Resolving dependencies...
>>>> The following packages have been kept back:
>>>>   libmyth-0.23-0{a} mythgallery mythmovies mythmusic mythtv-backend{a}
>>>>   mythtv-common{a} mythtv-frontend{a} mythtv-transcode-utils{a}
>>>> mythvideo
>>>>   mythweather
>>>> The following packages will be REMOVED:
>>>>   firefox-3.5{u} firefox-3.5-branding{u} libfftw3-3{u} libmyth-0.22-0{u}
>>>>   xulrunner-1.9.1{u} xulrunner-1.9.1-gnome-support{u}
>>>> 0 packages upgraded, 0 newly installed, 6 to remove and 10 not upgraded.
>>>> Need to get 0B of archives. After unpacking 61.7MB will be freed.
>>>> Do you want to continue? [Y/n/?]
>>>>
>>>>
>>>> As you can see, it wants to remove some things, but still says that the
>>>> myth
>>>> packages will not be upgraded.  When I tried "sudo apt-get -s
>>>> dist-upgrade",
>>>> I got the same result as earlier: no packages added or removed, and the
>>>> myth
>>>> packages set to not be upgraded.
>>>>
>>>> Any ideas?
>>>> Harry
>>>>
>>> Sounds like somehow your dependencies are messed up from either a
>>> dist-upgrade or similar..  I'm pretty new to debian (so apt-get,
>>> aptitude as well)..  Not quite sure how to fix it..
>>>
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>>>  I wonder if upgrading to Ubuntu 10.04 will help?  I hadn't done that yet
>> since the main OS was working so well for me.
>>
>> Harry
>>
>>
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>>  OK, so I upgraded to 10.04 last night and, after dealing with an LIRC
> issue (stopped working, had to play with it for a bit to fix it), I see that
> I'm in the same boat.  I'm at the same myth version, and the "sudo aptitude
> upgrade" doesn't list any myth packages.  As far as Ubuntu is concerned,
> everything is up-to-date.  Here's what my mythbackend version reports, in
> case anyone is interested.
>
> hdevine at hdevine-desktop:/etc/lirc$ mythbackend --version
> Please attach all output as a file in bug reports.
> MythTV Version   : 25423
> MythTV Branch    : branches/release-0-23-fixes
> Network Protocol : 23056
> Library API      : 0.23.1.201000710-1
> QT Version       : 4.5.2
> Options compiled in:
>  linux debug using_oss using_alsa using_pulse using_jack using_pulseoutput
> using_backend using_dvb using_firewire using_frontend
> using_glx_proc_addr_arb using_hdhomerun using_hdpvr using_iptv using_ivtv
> using_joystick_menu using_libudev using_lirc using_mheg using_opengl_video
> using_opengl_vsync using_qtdbus using_qtwebkit using_v4l using_x11
> using_xrandr using_xv using_xvmc using_xvmc_vld using_xvmcw
> using_bindings_perl using_bindings_python using_opengl using_vdpau
> using_ffmpeg_threads using_libavc_5_3 using_live using_mheg
>
>
> Maybe I need to reinstall mythbuntu-repos?  I did go into the Mythbuntu
> Control Center and saw that 0.23.1 was selected, so I'm still unsure why the
> newer 0.23.1 packages aren't being found.
>
> Thanks,
> Harry
>
>
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You will need to disable/reenable the auto-builds repo in MCC. After a
distribution upgrade it gets disabled by the OS. Even though it says it is
enabled, it is actually disabled.
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