[mythtv-users] systemd revisited

[David Williams]

Thanks Mr. Bloke for the reply. 

Attempts to enter a 0.28 PPA yield the following response:
E: The repository 'http://ppa.launchpad.net/mythbuntu/0.28/ubuntu bionic Release' does not have a Release file.
N: Updating from such a repository can't be done securely, and is therefore disabled by default.
So it looks as if one limited to the current version for command line installation.
I was able to locate earlier versions by going into the launchpad website although I also ran into a glitch with this attempt. I was able to download and partially install 0.28 although when I got to the point where one is instructed to log out and log back the progression halted. In my many iterations of loading Myth, at this point I have learned to go to /etc/mythtv/config.sys and access the password. Clicking the back end icon usually takes you into the routine for entering the password although a message "Please manually log out of your session for the changes to take effect." appears in this case and, in effect, becomes a loop. 

I'm not sure what to do at this point and I welcome suggestions. 

I gotta ask, is mjbloke a take off on the UK term for guy? While I'm a Yank my father emigrated from Wales and I talk with relatives in Cardiff and Caerphilly on a weekly basis.
Dave 

    On Wednesday, October 10, 2018 1:19 AM, Ian Cameron <mkbloke at gmail.com> wrote:
 

 On Wed, 10 Oct 2018 at 00:26, David Williams <mythtv_david at yahoo.com> wrote:

As an alternative I tried to install 0.28 on Xubuntu 18.04. I couldn't figure out how to downgrade 0.29 with either Synaptic or the command line install. Even after I set PPA for 0.28 it downloaded 0.29. Is there a way to achieve this and/or is there somewhere I can download 0.28. I looked but it was elusive. 

The package manager will usually install the latest version by default.  You should be able to install a specific version using the format:
sudo apt-get install package_name=version_number
To make sure you have the 0.28 version available to the package manager (PPA enabled and updated via apt-get update), you could:
apt-cache show mythtv | grep Version:
which should obviously show 0.28 and 0.29.
Finally, automatic upgrades will upgrade your system from 0.28 to 0.29.  You can stop this by placing the package in a hold state using dpkg.  The dpkg command to do this reads from stdin, however.  Let's say you want to hold the mythtv-backend package.  First type:
sudo dpkg --set-selections
then on the line below type:
mythtv-backend hold
then hit enter, followed by control-D, which should return you to the command prompt.
You can verify the package hold states for all packages using:
dpkg --get-selections

or:
dpkg --get selections | grep mythtv-backend
to verify the hold state of the mythtv-backend package.

Ian


   
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