[mythtv-users] failure on v31 mythplugins on clean install

[James Abernathy]

> On Mar 6, 2020, at 9:40 AM, Bill Meek <keemllib at gmail.com> wrote:
> 
> On 3/6/20 5:35 AM, Jim Abernathy wrote:
>> Since I had a problem upgrading mythweb on my development system again, I tried a fresh build. I wiped the hard drive and reinstalled Ubuntu 18.04.4 and then mythtv.
>> However, when I got to mythplugins I got this error on mythweb:
>> Selecting previously unselected package mythweb.
>> Preparing to unpack .../117-mythweb_2%3a31.0+fixes.202003051106.1460627~ubuntu18.04.1_all.deb ...
>> /var/lib/dpkg/tmp.ci/preinst: 7: /var/lib/dpkg/tmp.ci/preinst: php: not found
> 
> ...
> 
> php again. Last time you reported, php was there because
> php -r 'echo PHP_MAJOR_VERSION, ".", PHP_MINOR_VERSION;'
> worked. I'll comment more in the the related thread
> this morning.
> 
> php -r 'echo PHP_MAJOR_VERSION, ".", PHP_MINOR_VERSION;’ didn’t work this time on a clean system with no mythplugins installed. 

I then installed php 7.2 and I could then install mythplugins correctly.

I can’t say I know why, but this worked.  Hopefully all this will get fixed at some point for a clean install of mythtv and mythplugins on Ubuntu 18.04

Jim A