[mythtv-users] Ubuntu 18.04.1 LTS do-release-upgrade with Mythtv

[Stephen Worthington]

On Mon, 8 Oct 2018 00:17:23 -0400, you wrote:

>I have work-arounds for two of the issues Stephen has documented:
[snip]
>> 4) The x11vnc VNC server seems to be broken in the new 18.04 version.
>> It crashes whenever I try to use the menu on the MythTV box over a VNC
>> connection.  I am still working my way through this problem - I may
>> have to use a different VNC server.  The recommendation I found on the
>> web to switch my display manager to lightdm did not work - I was
>> already using lightdm as that is the default in Mythbuntu (and Xubuntu
>> I think).
>
>In this case, the newer version, 0.9.13-6, from cosmic of x11vnc fixes this problem. Assuming that you've got the broken version, 0.9.13-3, installed, ensuring you've got the necessary dependencies installed, you can download and install the deb from cosmic. You also need to install the matching deb for x11vnc-data. Package details are here:
>https://packages.ubuntu.com/cosmic/x11vnc
>https://packages.ubuntu.com/cosmic/x11vnc-data
>I downloaded the packages from here:
>http://mirrors.kernel.org/ubuntu/pool/universe/x/x11vnc/x11vnc_0.9.13-6_amd64.deb
>http://mirrors.kernel.org/ubuntu/pool/universe/x/x11vnc/x11vnc-data_0.9.13-6_all.deb
>Once downloaded, install them together, not separately, e.g.:
># dpkg -i x11vnc_0.9.13-6_amd64.deb x11vnc-data_0.9.13-6_all.deb
>
>HTH,
>Helen

Thank you, I was going to spend time this evening looking for a good
fix for this one, and this is just what I needed.

I do have to wonder why Ubuntu has not put the fixed version in the
18.04 repository though.