[mythtv-users] MythTV dependencies and Ron's Ceton patch (Tom Bongiorno)

[Ken Truesdale]

> Date: Wed, 10 Aug 2011 14:21:17 -0400
> From: Tom Bongiorno <two.bits.11 at gmail.com>
> Subject: Re: [mythtv-users] MythTV dependencies and Ron's Ceton patch
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> On Wed, Aug 10, 2011 at 2:10 PM, Tom Bongiorno <two.bits.11 at gmail.com>wrote:
> 
>> On Wed, Aug 10, 2011 at 2:02 PM, Tom Bongiorno <two.bits.11 at gmail.com>wrote:
>> 
>>> On Wed, Aug 10, 2011 at 1:26 PM, Ronald Frazier <ron at ronfrazier.net>wrote:
>>> 
>>>> On Wed, Aug 10, 2011 at 11:41 AM, Tom Bongiorno <two.bits.11 at gmail.com>
>>>> wrote:
>>>>> On Wed, Aug 10, 2011 at 11:09 AM, Ronald Frazier <ron at ronfrazier.net>
>>>> wrote:
>>>>>> 
>>>>> Is it the other way around?  I think it is trying to install
>>>> .24.0+fixes
>>>>> from 2011.04.16 because that is the latest version of the unpatched
>>>>> libraries that it knows about, but I applied your patch to the
>>>> .24.1+fixes
>>>>> source.
>>>> 
>>>> Oh, well maybe it is the other way around (it wants to downgrade). I'm
>>>> not 100% sure how to interpret that dependency output. I thought you
>>>> had just followed my mythbuntu instructions, which downloads the same
>>>> 0.24-0 source which I'm pretty was used to build mythbuntu's default
>>>> copy of myth. If you downloaded 0.24-1 fixes straight from git, then
>>>> I'm not sure how that would have worked.
>>>> 
>>>> 
>>>> --
>>>> Ron Frazier
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>>> 
>>> My head is spinning, but I think I got it.  I looked back at what I
>>> actually did.  I did exactly as you said in your instructions.  The problem
>>> is that I updated to .24.1-fixes, and overwrote some of my .24.1-fixes
>>> binaries with your patch generated .24.0-fixes binaries.  Now I have a mixed
>>> bag of .24.0-fixes and .24.1-fixes binaries.  Scary!
>>> 
>>> I made a couple mistakes:
>>> 
>>> First, I misunderstood your patch.  I thought I already had to be at
>>> .24.x-fixes to apply the patch.  Your patch is not a binary patch, but
>>> rather a source code patch.  It was quite obvious.  I don't know why I
>>> missed that.
>>> 
>>> Second, I thought adding the updates repos would bring me to .24.0-fixes
>>> and not .24.1-fixes.  I should have also known this when it asked me if I
>>> was to keep up-to-date with .24.x or .25.
>>> 
>>> I am not sure the best course of action at this point.
>>> 
>>> -Tom
>>> 
>> 
>> I could possibly just dpkg -i all the .24.0-fixes debs that were built with
>> your patch.  I wonder if that would fix the problem.  I turned off updates,
>> so I that should not get in the way in the future.  The Mythbuntu specific
>> updates repos may cause a problem at some point though.
>> 
>> -Tom
>> 
> 
> Sorry to barrage everyone with emails.
> 
> Ron, how well would your patches work against .24.1-fixes source?  I am
> guessing that it may be just fine.  .24.1-fixes is the latest stable release
> of MythTV, and many potential users of your patch may already be there.
> 
> -Tom


FWIW, I also found that the package manager was confused.  It said I had a list of broken packages.  Not coincidentally, all of the packages it listed as broken were all the packages that I did not install.  As per Ron's instructions, I initially had only installed the 4 packages he listed.  But after I realized I had this problem, I went back and did the dpkg -i on all remaining packages.  Here's the full list of installs I did:

sudo dpkg -i mythtv_0.24.0+fixes.20110416.9ba3ece-0ubuntu2_all.deb
sudo dpkg -i mythtv-common_0.24.0+fixes.20110416.9ba3ece-0ubuntu2_i386.deb
sudo dpkg -i libmyth-0.24-0_0.24.0+fixes.20110416.9ba3ece-0ubuntu2_i386.deb
sudo dpkg -i mythtv-backend_0.24.0+fixes.20110416.9ba3ece-0ubuntu2_i386.deb
sudo dpkg -i mythtv-frontend_0.24.0+fixes.20110416.9ba3ece-0ubuntu2_i386.deb
sudo dpkg -i mythbrowser_0.24.0+fixes.20110416.9ba3ece-0ubuntu2_i386.deb
sudo dpkg -i mythweather_0.24.0+fixes.20110416.9ba3ece-0ubuntu2_i386.deb
sudo dpkg -i mythtv-transcode-utils_0.24.0+fixes.20110416.9ba3ece-0ubuntu2_i386.deb
sudo dpkg -i mythvideo_0.24.0+fixes.20110416.9ba3ece-0ubuntu2_i386.deb
sudo dpkg -i mythmusic_0.24.0+fixes.20110416.9ba3ece-0ubuntu2_i386.deb
sudo dpkg -i mythnetvision_0.24.0+fixes.20110416.9ba3ece-0ubuntu2_i386.deb
sudo dpkg -i mytharchive_0.24.0+fixes.20110416.9ba3ece-0ubuntu2_i386.deb
sudo dpkg -i mythgame_0.24.0+fixes.20110416.9ba3ece-0ubuntu2_i386.deb
sudo dpkg -i mythnews_0.24.0+fixes.20110416.9ba3ece-0ubuntu2_i386.deb
sudo dpkg -i mythgallery_0.24.0+fixes.20110416.9ba3ece-0ubuntu2_i386.deb
sudo dpkg -i mythweb_0.24.0+fixes.20110416.9ba3ece-0ubuntu2_all.deb


I'd feel a lot better about telling you that you should do this, Tom.  But I have been unable to use the Ceton from inside Myth yet.  I got stuck on this over the weekend and haven't had time to get back to it this week.  I've been reading about what other people have found today and it looks like I'm alone with my symptoms so I'm just going to go back to basics and try again.  I also think I should try the network setup that has been described in the other thread.  

Until then, all I can say is that package manager is happy after I did the above.  Although package manager isn't the thing that I care most about!  


Ken.