[mythtv-users] Problem with PPA?

[John Pilkington]

On 22/10/16 22:25, David Williams wrote:
> I had a similar problem to sgreene59 of unmet dependencies when after
> upgrading I attempted to install mythtv-frontend. By entering them one
> by one with the exception of transcode they installed just fine.
>
> Now when I attempt to install mythv-frontend I receive this message:
> The following packages have unmet dependencies:
> mythtv-frontend : Depends: transcode but it is not installable
> E: Unable to correct problems, you have held broken packages.
>
> I did a bit of digging into Ubuntu and I discovered the following
> regarding transcode in yakkety:
>
> There is no current release of this source package in The Yakkety Yak.
> You can still report bugs, make translations, and so on, but they might
> not be used until the package is published.
>
> I’m stymied at this point and I welcome advice.
>
I added a comment about this earlier today to a 'frontend won't install' 
ticket.  I doubt that the transcode package is still a real requirement; 
  it was used years ago in mytharchive for requantising but has been 
replaced there.  Can apt-get 'skip-broken'?