[mythtv-users] Is mythbuntu dead?

Thomas Mashos thomas at mashos.com
Wed Nov 20 21:59:14 UTC 2013


On Wed, Nov 20, 2013 at 1:50 PM, Zig <jzigpublic at gmail.com> wrote:
> On 11/20/2013 3:27 PM, Thomas Mashos wrote:
>
> On Wed, Nov 20, 2013 at 1:04 PM, Jason Ward <JasonFWard at gmail.com> wrote:
>
> Their website has not been updated for around 18 months.
>
> If they are defunct, what is now the best way to Myth for Ubuntu without
> compiling from source?
>
> If they are not defunct, does anyone know where I can find up to date
> information on their releases?
>
> Cheers
> Jason
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> Where were you looking that you think we haven't updated the site in
> 18 months? Our last blog post is from Sept 6th, 2013 (see
> http://www.mythbuntu.org/home/news ).
>
> We release a new major release every 2 years (with the Ubuntu LTS
> release) and offer updates for it through our MythTV repo. We also do
> point releases (our last release was 12.04.3 in September). Our next
> release will be 14.04 in April 2014.
>
> I thought I had covered everything, but if it truly looks like we're
> not updating something I'd like the opportunity to fix it.
>
> Thanks,
>
> Thomas Mashos
>
> The blog post page that you refer to lists the "Highlights" of 12.04.3 as
> being MythTV version 0.25.  This may lead some to believe that things are
> out of date.   Perhaps a remark under "Highlights" that changing to the 0.27
> repositories can be done in the Mythbuntu Control Center along with a link
> to the instructions explaining how to do the upgrade might make it sound
> more up to date for the casual reader.  Oddly enough (at least for novices),
> you can't do the upgrade to 0.27 from the MCC (it leaves things in an
> unusable state) you have to use the command line: apt-get dist-upgrade.
>
> Ziggy
>
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Well you can't do any updates though MCC (you can just add the 0.27
repo). What exactly is broken? Is there a bug report?

Thanks,

Thomas Mashos


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