[mythtv-users] best method to upgrade 28.1 to 29 on ubuntu 16.04
Jason Zarin
jason at zarin.org
Wed Aug 16 12:24:47 UTC 2017
On Tue, Aug 15, 2017 at 11:24 AM, Mike Bibbings <mike.bibbings at gmail.com>
wrote:
> On 15/08/17 15:27, Jason Zarin wrote:
>
> It's been a long time since I've done a change of the mythtv ppa and
> upgrade to a new mythtv branch.
>
> What is the best way to do it to ensure a minimum of problems?
>
> possible options:
>
> * apt-remove myth*? then remove the old ppa, add the new one, and
> reinstall?
> * add the new ppa, remove the old ppa, then do a dist-upgrade?
> * add the new ppa, remove the old ppa, apt-remove myth*, then reinstall?
>
> or something else?
>
> thanks
>
>
>
> Note it seems the PPA to use is *ppa:mythbuntu/0.29*
> (I would have expected *ppa:mythbuntu/29 * but this only has an entry
> for Trusty (ubuntu 14.04))
>
>
> What I have done in the past on ubuntu based systems is:
>
>
> Backup the database manually and copy it to somewhere safe (this is just
> for safety) see https://www.mythtv.org/wiki/Database_Backup_and_Restore
>
> sudo add-apt-repository ppa:mythbuntu/0.29
> sudo apt update
> sudo apt dist-upgrade
>
> then reboot the machine
>
> repeat for any slave backends and frontends
>
>
> Mike
>
>
>
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Thanks -- my upgrade went perfectly!
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