[mythtv-users] Upgrade order for MythTV vs Ubuntu

[DryHeat122]

On Mon, Jul 13, 2020 at 4:25 AM jam at tigger.ws <jam at tigger.ws> wrote:

> On 13 Jul 2020, at 4:55 pm, Stephen Worthington <stephen_agent at jsw.gen.nz>
> wrote:
> >
> >> I have MythTV 0.28 running on Ubuntu 16.04.  I would like to upgrade to
> >> MythTV 31 and Ubuntu 18.04.  But what should I upgrade first, MythTV or
> >> Ubuntu?  I don't want to run afoul of any dependencies, etc., that would
> >> hose the whole setup.
> >
> > I do not think you will get packages for the later MythTV versions on
> > 16.04, and I am not sure if 0.28 packages are available for 18.04
> > either.  You may have to do both at once - upgrade Ubuntu to 18.04 and
> > MythTV to v30 or v31 at the same time.  You might like to hunt down
> > the threads on this list to do with upgrading to 18.04 - there are a
> > number of problems you may meet, but if you are using lirc, you
> > certainly will have problems with that and will need the fix script I
> > wrote.
> >
> > You could update MythTV to 0.29 before the 18.04 upgrade, but I do not
> > see any great point in doing that when you can just go directly to v31
> > on 18.04.  What EPG are you using?  The old Schedules Direct builtin
> > EPG is going or gone, so you will need to allow yourself time to
> > update that as well if you need it.
> >
> > I always do a Clonezilla image backup of my system partition before I
> > attempt any major upgrade like this.  About a third of the time, my
> > first attempt fails badly enough that I restore the backup, usually
> > because I am out of time before the next scheduled recording.  The
> > second time I do the upgrade it normally works as I know what the
> > problems are and have fixes ready for them.
>
> Stephen
> being a bear of little brain (Winnie thur Pooh) I was not able to get
> pre-built packages to work. I found ansible sorted out dependancies and
> building from source was quick and easy. I did not build 28 but I have no
> doubt that it is as easy. See the wiki.
> James
> PS I don't recall when we went to whole numbers if it should be 0.28 not
> 28 sorry.
>

Well I'm glad I asked about this before starting to upgrade things. Is it a
better idea to do a clean install of 18.04, then fresh install MythTV?
 @Stephen are you saying Schedules Direct is no longer available as an
EPG?  What is there instead?
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