[mythtv-users] Unable to install MythTV on UbuntuMATE Linux 16.04

Sun May 13 06:54:50 UTC 2018

On 13/05/2018, Thomas Mashos <thomas at mashos.com> wrote:
> On Sat, May 12, 2018 at 3:34 PM Bret Busby <bret.busby at gmail.com> wrote:
>
>> On 13/05/2018, George Poulson <george.poulson at gmail.com> wrote:
>> > My understanding is that he *buntu packages want to install MariaDB,
>> which
>> > will conflict with MySQL.
>> >
>> > Unless you really need MySQL then I would uninstall it and use the
>> > recommended packages.
>> >
>> > Also the *buntu packages will give you a less-than-up-to-date version
>> > of
>> > MythTV (I have just installed 0.29-fixes on a LUuntu 16.04.1 base.
>> >
>> > There is some very good information here: Installing MythTV on Ubuntu -
>> > MythTV Official Wiki
>> > <https://www.mythtv.org/wiki/Installing_MythTV_on_Ubuntu>
>> >
>> > George
>> >
>> >
>> >
>> > On 12 May 2018 at 21:19, Bret Busby <bret.busby at gmail.com> wrote:
>> >
>> >> Hello.
>> >>
>> >> I have just unsuccessfully tried, using the Ubuntu Software Centre, to
>> >> download and install MythTV, on UbuntuMATE Linux 16.04.x .
>> >>
>> >> The version of MythTV that I tried to install, from the Ubuntu
>> >> Software Centre, is shown as
>> >> mythtv 2:0.28.0+fixes.20160413.15cf421-0ubuntu2.16.04.1
>> >>
>> >> The error message showed
>> >>
>> >> "
>> >> To install MythTV Backend Setup, these items must be removed:
>> >> Mysql database server binaries
>> >> mysql-server-core-5.6
>> >> "
>> >>
>> >> Is it correct that MythTV conflicts with MySQL, and that the two are
>> >> mutually exclusive?
>> >>
>> >> Thank you in anticipation.
>> >>
>> >> --
>> >> Bret Busby
>> >> Armadale
>> >> West Australia
>> >> ..............
>> >>
>> >> "So once you do know what the question actually is,
>> >>  you'll know what the answer means."
>> >> - Deep Thought,
>> >>  Chapter 28 of Book 1 of
>> >>  "The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy:
>> >>  A Trilogy In Four Parts",
>> >>  written by Douglas Adams,
>> >>  published by Pan Books, 1992
>> >>
>> >> ....................................................
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>> >>
>> >
>>
>> Hello.
>>
>> That wiki from the link that you posted, in adding the ppa, and trying
>> to install using the ppa, still requires eliminating mysql.
>>
>> Yet, that wiki web page states that mythtv uses muysql, and,
>> installing mythtv, creates a mysql database for mythtv.
>>
>> So, that wiki web page appears to be obsolete.
>>
>> So, it appears that mythtv and mysql are mutually exclusive.
>>
>>
>> --
>>
>> Bret Busby
>> Armadale
>> West Australia
>>
>> ..............
>>
>> "So once you do know what the question actually is,
>>  you'll know what the answer means."
>> - Deep Thought,
>>  Chapter 28 of Book 1 of
>>  "The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy:
>>  A Trilogy In Four Parts",
>>  written by Douglas Adams,
>>  published by Pan Books, 1992
>>
>> ....................................................
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>
>
>
> Ubuntu 16.04 has MySQL 5.7, not 5.6. So you should probably figure out why
> your system is out of whack.
>
> That said, it's not the entire issue you're facing. In 16.04 MythTV
> requires either mysql-server, mysql-server-5.7, mysql-server-5.6,
> virtual-mysql-server, or mariadb-server. So I'm guessing whatever that
> mysql-server-core-5.6 package is it doesn't provide any of the above
> mentioned packages and instead conflicts with one of them.
>
> So to fix this issue, you'll need to fix your system first. Once you do
> that, I'll second part of what George had said and suggest you should be
> running the MythTV packages from the PPA.
> --
> -Thomas
>

I have just made sure that the mysql is updated, and, synaptic shows
the installed version to be 5.7, but the Ubuntu Software Centre shows
that 5.6 needs to be removed.

Trying to use the apt-get install mythtv command returns

"
$ sudo apt-get install mythtv
Reading package lists... Done
Building dependency tree
Reading state information... Done
The following additional packages will be installed:
  fonts-droid-fallback fonts-texgyre libdbd-mysql-perl libdbi-perl
libhtml-template-perl libmyth libmyth-python
  libmythtv-perl libnet-upnp-perl libreadline5 libxml-simple-perl
libxml-xpath-perl mariadb-client-10.0
  mariadb-client-core-10.0 mariadb-common mariadb-server-10.0
mariadb-server-core-10.0 mythtv-backend
  mythtv-common mythtv-database mythtv-dbg mythtv-frontend
mythtv-transcode-utils pwgen python-future
  python-imdbpy python-mysqldb python-pycurl python-requests-cache
python-urlgrabber tex-common ttf-dejavu
  ttf-dejavu-extra wmctrl
Suggested packages:
  libmldbm-perl libnet-daemon-perl libsql-statement-perl
libipc-sharedcache-perl mariadb-test tinyca mythtv-doc
  mythweb mythmusic mythweather mythgallery mythgame mytharchive
python-future-doc python-sqlobject
  python-sqlalchemy mysql-server python-egenix-mxdatetime
python-mysqldb-dbg libcurl4-gnutls-dev
  python-pycurl-dbg python-pycurl-doc python-requests-cache-doc
python-pymongo python-redis debhelper
The following packages will be REMOVED:
  mysql-client mysql-client-5.7 mysql-client-core-5.7 mysql-server-core-5.6
The following NEW packages will be installed:
  fonts-droid-fallback fonts-texgyre libdbd-mysql-perl libdbi-perl
libhtml-template-perl libmyth libmyth-python
  libmythtv-perl libnet-upnp-perl libreadline5 libxml-simple-perl
libxml-xpath-perl mariadb-client-10.0
  mariadb-client-core-10.0 mariadb-common mariadb-server-10.0
mariadb-server-core-10.0 mythtv mythtv-backend
  mythtv-common mythtv-database mythtv-dbg mythtv-frontend
mythtv-transcode-utils pwgen python-future
  python-imdbpy python-mysqldb python-pycurl python-requests-cache
python-urlgrabber tex-common ttf-dejavu
  ttf-dejavu-extra wmctrl
0 to upgrade, 35 to newly install, 4 to remove and 8 not to upgrade.
Need to get 206 MB of archives.
After this operation, 334 MB of additional disk space will be used.
Do you want to continue? [Y/n]
"

So it seems that, once again, mysql and mythtv are mutually exclusive;
if mysql is installed, mythtv will not install.

It seems too dificult to install and use mythtv.

-- 

Bret Busby
Armadale
West Australia

..............

"So once you do know what the question actually is,
 you'll know what the answer means."
- Deep Thought,
 Chapter 28 of Book 1 of
 "The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy:
 A Trilogy In Four Parts",
 written by Douglas Adams,
 published by Pan Books, 1992

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