[mythtv-users] mythplugins fail to install today

[Bill Meek]

On 3/3/20 4:32 PM, James Abernathy wrote:
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> On Tue, Mar 3, 2020 at 5:03 PM James Abernathy <jfabernathy at gmail.com <mailto:jfabernathy at gmail.com>> wrote:
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>     On Tue, Mar 3, 2020 at 4:58 PM G Ui <guierrmo at gmail.com <mailto:guierrmo at gmail.com>> wrote:
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>         On Tue, Mar 3, 2020 at 4:44 PM James Abernathy <jfabernathy at gmail.com <mailto:jfabernathy at gmail.com>> wrote:
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>             Hard drive issues caused me to complete rebuild my development system today. I got it working without the mythplugins but late today
>             decided to install them so I'd have mythweb.
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>             I got a failure. I put the console log while installing in pastebin:
>             https://pastebin.com/bQW3jWg1
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>             I also noticed this error this morning right around the time I lost my hard drive.  I hope it's not related?
>             Jim A
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>         I ran into this too. See below thread for resolution.  You can remove the errant line and re-run apt install to complete.  Or wait for
>         the fix which should be pushed soon if not already.
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>     Since I'm not sure what and where to remove the errant line, I'll wait for the fix to be pushed to the ppa:mythbuntu/v31
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>     Jim A
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> Well this updates arrived but there is a new error on mythweb install
> Preparing to unpack .../mythweb_2%3a31.0+fixes.202003030929.54a568d~ubuntu18.04.1_all.deb ...
> /var/lib/dpkg/tmp.ci/preinst <http://tmp.ci/preinst>: 7: /var/lib/dpkg/tmp.ci/preinst <http://tmp.ci/preinst>: php: not found
> dpkg: error processing archive /var/cache/apt/archives/mythweb_2%3a31.0+fixes.202003030929.54a568d~ubuntu18.04.1_all.deb (--unpack):
>   new mythweb package pre-installation script subprocess returned error exit status 127
> /var/lib/dpkg/tmp.ci/postrm <http://tmp.ci/postrm>: 34: /var/lib/dpkg/tmp.ci/postrm <http://tmp.ci/postrm>: Syntax error: newline unexpected 
> (expecting ")")
> dpkg: error while cleaning up:
>   new mythweb package post-removal script subprocess returned error exit status 2
> Errors were encountered while processing:
>   /var/cache/apt/archives/mythweb_2%3a31.0+fixes.202003030929.54a568d~ubuntu18.04.1_all.deb
> E: Sub-process /usr/bin/dpkg returned an error code (1)
> Jim A

I saw your followup post to the above, but what does this command return:

     php -r 'echo PHP_MAJOR_VERSION, ".", PHP_MINOR_VERSION;'

I expect to see something like 7.2 (without a new line.)

-- 
Bill