[mythtv-users] mythbuntu PPA on Trusty python-requests-cache not available

[Jay Foster]

On 02/24/2018 03:11 PM, Steven Adeff wrote:
> anyone else running the mythbuntu PPA on Trusty run into this? maybe
> figured out a solution?
>
> # apt-get -q install mythtv-common
> Reading package lists...
> Building dependency tree...
> Reading state information...
> Some packages could not be installed. This may mean that you have
> requested an impossible situation or if you are using the unstable
> distribution that some required packages have not yet been created
> or been moved out of Incoming.
> The following information may help to resolve the situation:
>
> The following packages have unmet dependencies:
>   mythtv-common : Depends: python-requests-cache but it is not installable
>                   Recommends: mythtv-dbg but it is not going to be installed
> E: Unable to correct problems, you have held broken packages.
> root at MythCenter:~/Downloads/mythbuntu# ls
> mythtv-common_0.28.2+fixes.20180202.8238e83-0ubuntu0mythbuntu2_amd64.deb
> root at MythCenter:~/Downloads/mythbuntu# dpkg -i
> mythtv-common_0.28.2+fixes.20180202.8238e83-0ubuntu0mythbuntu2_amd64.deb
> Selecting previously unselected package mythtv-common.
> (Reading database ... 272314 files and directories currently installed.)
> Preparing to unpack
> mythtv-common_0.28.2+fixes.20180202.8238e83-0ubuntu0mythbuntu2_amd64.deb
> ...
> Unpacking mythtv-common (2:0.28.2+fixes.20180202.8238e83-0ubuntu0mythbuntu2) ...
> dpkg: dependency problems prevent configuration of mythtv-common:
>   mythtv-common depends on python-requests-cache; however:
>    Package python-requests-cache is not installed.
>
> dpkg: error processing package mythtv-common (--install):
>   dependency problems - leaving unconfigured
> Processing triggers for man-db (2.6.7.1-1ubuntu1) ...
> Errors were encountered while processing:
>   mythtv-common
>
>
I am running 0.28 on mythbuntu 14.04 (Trusty) just fine.  Before I 
upgraded from 0.27.x to 0.28, I first had to manually install some 
python packages from Xenial (16.04).  This was needed to get the TVDB 
listings to keep working (https://www.mythtv.org/wiki/TheTVDB_API_v2).  
Perhaps you need to pull those first?  Also refer to the mythtv-users 
topic, "Upgrade your system for TheTVDB update on October 1st 2017" for 
more details.

I upgraded from 0.27 to 0.28 using the mythbuntu PPA and doing a regular 
apt-get update.  Something along the lines of "sudo add-apt-repository 
ppa:mythbuntu/0.28".

Jay