[mythtv-users] Fresh install of Mythtv version 29

David Hampton mythtv at love2code.net
Mon Dec 4 17:53:05 UTC 2017


On Mon, 2017-12-04 at 16:53 +0000, Jim Abernathy wrote:
> Since I had problems trying to upgrade a production system from 0.28
> to 29, I tried building a new Xubuntu 16.04.3 system as a test case.
> 
> I added the repository PPA:mythbuntu/0.29. And then installing the
> package mythtv.  It installed just fine. I did setup a link from
> /etc/mythtv/config.xml to the .mythtv/config.xml before running the
> frontend due to past issues, but not sure if it’s still
> required.  Once the backend was setup with a tuner and storage
> locations, I could watch TV, etc.
> 
> Everything worked as expected. but one observation.  It systems to
> have install MariaDB. I wasn’t expecting that.

All the distros seem to have switched from MySqlDB to MariaDB.

David



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