[mythtv-users] What's going on with the mythbuntu PPA?

[James Abernathy]

On Sat, Jan 3, 2026, 6:58 PM Scott Theisen <scott.the.elm at gmail.com> wrote:

> On 2026/01/03 06:56, James Abernathy wrote:
>
> I've been watching the mythtv-commits and seeing a number of them
> recently.  When that happens, I normally see updates available from the
> mythbuntu PPA the next day.
>
> However, I've not seen any updates from the PPA recently and when I check
> the page I see that all the builds recently have failed.
>
> Can I assume that the right folks are aware of this? I have not tried to
> build with cmake for Ubuntu because the PPA usually provides what I need
> for my Ubuntu backend.
>
> Jim A
>
>
> I removed the `--enable-ffmpeg-pthreads` option from configure since it
> didn't do anything.  configure fails on unknown options and the mythbuntu
> PPA has been using that configure option.
>
> The build failures were also mentioned on the mythtv-dev list, but I don't
> know who can fix it.
>
> Scott
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As a possible alternative if needed,  I built for Ubuntu 24.04 using cmake
and it built but can't run due to a missing lib file. Both mythfrontend and
mythbackend failed.  If needed I can provide the exact error tomorrow.

Jim A
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