[mythtv-users] Upgrading older mythbuntu

[Marius Schrecker]

 On Thu, Feb 4, 2016, 4:56 AM Marius Schrecker <marius.schrecker at lyse.net> wrote:Hi Jim,

 Thanks for the workflow.  Yes. 14.04 is there but there will not be ISO's for 16.04 LTS and on, so I thought that, since we're nearly at 16.04 anyway it might be better to go for the latest non-LTS release and continue from there, just adding the packages to a vanilla or light Ubuntu desktop, rather than having to upgrade from 14.04. In my experience, upgrades are often riskier than installs.

BR.

--Marius--



On Thursday, February 4, 2016 13:16 CET, James Abernathy <jfabernathy at outlook.com> wrote:
 
> On Feb 4, 2016, at 4:36 AM, Marius Schrecker <marius.schrecker at lyse.net> wrote:
>
> Hi,
>
> Sory if this question has already been answered many times, but I'm a bit uncertain regarding the best workflow, now that mythbuntu will no longer be providing ISO's.
>
> My old mythbuntu 12.04 installation has been running quite happily and for quite some time now, without updates. But the time has come to both partially update the hardware (new disks etc.) clean up and update the installation. So my question is what is the best practice for doing so?
>
> I was thinking of performing a fresh install of the latest ubuntu (flavour? Lubuntu/Xubuntu/other suggestions or desktops...), then adding the Mythtv control centre package and dependencies, restoring my old mythtv 0.24? database and installing/updating mythtv from there.
>
> Is this the best workflow?
>

For me, I tried several method, but have found that downloading the .ISO file from Mythbuntu 14.04.2 then using SDC to create a bootable USB is the easiest. You pretty much go thru the MCC as part of the install. The .27 works great. If I didn’t have to install firmware for my Hauppauge 2250, I could so it all in a few minutes. Remembering where to find the firmware always takes me the longest :-)

Didn’t understand your comment about no longer providing ISO’s. They are still up there.

Jim A

> BR.
>
> --Marius--
 There's will be a 16.04 ISO. Not sure why you think there won't. --Thomas Mashos
Thanks Jim/Thomas,

 Looks like 14.04 is the way to go then, especially if 16.04 will be released as an official upgrade.

Thanks for input!

 BR.

--Marius--


 
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