[mythtv-users] mythexport/mythimport is compatible with MythTV 29

[John Pilkington]

On 16/08/17 19:10, John Pilkington wrote:

> Stephen says these packages will avoid the 'recordedid' problem which 
> hit me when using MythArchive native mode to copy recordings between 
> independent Myth boxes, but the packaging all looks ubuntu based.  This 
> was brought up in 2012, when it was asserted that the scripts-as-of-then 
> could be unpacked from the .deb format and used in other OSes.  I just 
> downloaded the packages and haven't noticed any  difficulty in reading 
> their contents in SL7 (el7 clone) - but have people outside ubuntuland 
> actually used them?   Were special measures needed to stop disasters?
> 
> John P

I decided to install on a kubuntu laptop which probably isn't the 
environment you expected:

$ uname -r
4.10.0-32-generic

:~/Downloads$ sudo dpkg -i mythexport_2.2.4-0ubuntu5-jsw2_amd64.deb
[sudo] password for john:
Selecting previously unselected package mythexport.
(Reading database ... 314940 files and directories currently installed.)
Preparing to unpack mythexport_2.2.4-0ubuntu5-jsw2_amd64.deb ...
Unpacking mythexport (2.2.4-0ubuntu5-jsw2) ...
dpkg: dependency problems prevent configuration of mythexport:
  mythexport depends on libconfig-simple-perl; however:
   Package libconfig-simple-perl is not installed.
  mythexport depends on libxml-rss-perl; however:
   Package libxml-rss-perl is not installed.
  mythexport depends on libproc-daemon-perl; however:
   Package libproc-daemon-perl is not installed.
  mythexport depends on libproc-pid-file-perl; however:
   Package libproc-pid-file-perl is not installed.
  mythexport depends on liblog-dispatch-perl; however:
   Package liblog-dispatch-perl is not installed.
  mythexport depends on libxml-writer-perl; however:
   Package libxml-writer-perl is not installed.
  mythexport depends on libavcodec-extra; however:
   Package libavcodec-extra is not installed.

dpkg: error processing package mythexport (--install):
  dependency problems - leaving unconfigured
Processing triggers for systemd (229-4ubuntu19) ...
Processing triggers for ureadahead (0.100.0-19) ...
ureadahead will be reprofiled on next reboot
Processing triggers for man-db (2.7.5-1) ...
Errors were encountered while processing:
  mythexport
~/Downloads$

~/Downloads$ sudo dpkg -i mythimport_2.2.4-0ubuntu5-jsw2_amd64.deb
Selecting previously unselected package mythimport.
(Reading database ... 314984 files and directories currently installed.)
Preparing to unpack mythimport_2.2.4-0ubuntu5-jsw2_amd64.deb ...
Unpacking mythimport (2.2.4-0ubuntu5-jsw2) ...
Setting up mythimport (2.2.4-0ubuntu5-jsw2) ...
Processing triggers for man-db (2.7.5-1) ...
~/Downloads$

I tried installing some of the packages quoted as missing, but got told 
to use 'apt-get -f install' which fetched a lot more.  Now it seems 
content.  I'll check that myth is still doing what I expect before going 
further.

Cheers,

John