[mythtv-users] Fresh'n'up

[Mike Perkins]

On 31/10/15 16:59, Peter Bennett (cats22) wrote:
> On 10/31/2015 10:52 AM, Daryl McDonald wrote:
>> Greetings Mythizens, Pro-actively, and without time pressures, I've
>> been preparing for the next System upgrade. I've created a second
>> bootable partition on my OS drive and installed "Wily Werewolf" on it
>> and then followed these instructions:
>>
>>
>>            Debian
>>
>> Build-dependencies for MythTV can be satisfied by adding the following
>> to your /etc/apt/sources.list
>>
>>      # Christian Marillat's packages (mplayer, lame)
>>      deb http://www.deb-multimedia.org sid main
>>      deb-src http://www.deb-multimedia.org sid main
>>
>> and executing:
>>
>>      # apt-get build-dep mythtv
>>      # apt-get source mythtv --compile
>>
>>      for Mythtv, a lot of lib* zip files are now resident in Home, is
>>      this normal/necessary?
>>
>>      The files are:
>>
>>      trieli at mythtv:~$ ls ~
>>
>>      Desktop
>>       mythtv_0.27.1+fixes.20140624.aa822f5-0ubuntu6.debian.tar.gz
>>
>>      Documents
>>       mythtv_0.27.1+fixes.20140624.aa822f5-0ubuntu6.dsc
>>
>>      Downloads
>>       mythtv_0.27.1+fixes.20140624.aa822f5.orig.tar.gz
>>
>>      examples.desktop
>>      mythtv-backend_0.27.1+fixes.20140624.aa822f5-0ubuntu6_amd64.deb
>>
>>      libmyth-0.27-0_0.27.1+fixes.20140624.aa822f5-0ubuntu6_amd64.deb
>>       mythtv-backend-master_0.27.1+fixes.20140624.aa822f5-0ubuntu6_all.deb
>>
>>      libmyth-dev_0.27.1+fixes.20140624.aa822f5-0ubuntu6_amd64.deb
>>      mythtv-common_0.27.1+fixes.20140624.aa822f5-0ubuntu6_amd64.deb
>>
>>      libmyth-python_0.27.1+fixes.20140624.aa822f5-0ubuntu6_all.deb
>>       mythtv-database_0.27.1+fixes.20140624.aa822f5-0ubuntu6_all.deb
>>
>>      libmythtv-perl_0.27.1+fixes.20140624.aa822f5-0ubuntu6_all.deb
>>       mythtv-dbg_0.27.1+fixes.20140624.aa822f5-0ubuntu6_amd64.deb
>>
>>      Music
>>       mythtv-doc_0.27.1+fixes.20140624.aa822f5-0ubuntu6_all.deb
>>
>>      mytharchive_0.27.1+fixes.20140624.aa822f5-0ubuntu6_amd64.deb
>>      mythtv-frontend_0.27.1+fixes.20140624.aa822f5-0ubuntu6_amd64.deb
>>
>>      mythbrowser_0.27.1+fixes.20140624.aa822f5-0ubuntu6_amd64.deb
>>      mythtv-theme-mythbuntu_0.27.1+fixes.20140624.aa822f5-0ubuntu6_all.deb
>>
>>      mythgallery_0.27.1+fixes.20140624.aa822f5-0ubuntu6_amd64.deb
>>      mythtv-transcode-utils_0.27.1+fixes.20140624.aa822f5-0ubuntu6_amd64.deb
>>
>>      mythgame_0.27.1+fixes.20140624.aa822f5-0ubuntu6_amd64.deb
>>       mythweather_0.27.1+fixes.20140624.aa822f5-0ubuntu6_amd64.deb
>>
>>      mythmusic_0.27.1+fixes.20140624.aa822f5-0ubuntu6_amd64.deb
>>      mythweb_0.27.1+fixes.20140624.aa822f5-0ubuntu6_all.deb
>>
>>      mythnetvision_0.27.1+fixes.20140624.aa822f5-0ubuntu6_amd64.deb
>>      mythzoneminder_0.27.1+fixes.20140624.aa822f5-0ubuntu6_amd64.deb
>>
>>      mythnews_0.27.1+fixes.20140624.aa822f5-0ubuntu6_amd64.deb
>>       php-mythtv_0.27.1+fixes.20140624.aa822f5-0ubuntu6_all.deb
>>
>>      mythplugins_0.27.1+fixes.20140624.aa822f5-0ubuntu6_all.deb
>>      Pictures
>>
>>      mythtv-0.27.1+fixes.20140624.aa822f5
>>      Public
>>
>>      mythtv_0.27.1+fixes.20140624.aa822f5-0ubuntu6_all.deb
>>       Templates
>>
>>      mythtv_0.27.1+fixes.20140624.aa822f5-0ubuntu6_amd64.changes
>>       Videos
>>
>>      trieli at mythtv:~$
>>
>>      Do I need to unpack/install these now?
>>
>>
>>
>>
>>
>
> Those deb-multimedia repositories are designed for plain Debian. The
> better approach for ubuntu is to use the Mythbuntu PPA which publishes
> builds designed for Ubuntu
> Latest stable version:
> https://launchpad.net/~mythbuntu/+archive/ubuntu/0.27
> That page gives instructions for installing (see "Adding this PPA to
> your system").
>
> Also, bear in mind the Wily version of Ubuntu is only supported for 9
> months. It may be better to wait for the next version 16.04 which will
> be supported for 5 years.
>
> Ubuntu version Wily uses systemd whereas mythtv has up to now been built
> using Upstart. I don't know if this has been changed in the PPA build
> yet so you may have some issues with the backend not starting up. This
> is another reason it may be better to wait for 16.04.
>
Debian repositories? Those listed files have 'unbuntu' right in the name! The files I pull from 
deb-multimedia certainly don't have that.

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Mike Perkins