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

[David Hampton]

On Sat, 2026-01-03 at 19:05 -0500, James Abernathy wrote:
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> On Sat, Jan 3, 2026, 6:58 PM Scott Theisen <scott.the.elm at gmail.com>
> wrote:
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> > On 2026/01/03 06:56, James Abernathy wrote:
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> > > 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.
> > >  
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> > >  
> > > 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.
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> > >  
> > >  
> > > Jim A
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> >  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. 

I can run the mythfrontend that was built on my ubuntu 24.04 builder. 
It gets as far as the screens to enter the backend, which is as far as
I can go with my vlan setup for the builders.

Does it work if you install the missing library?

David