[mythtv-users] mythtv-users Digest, Vol 274, Issue 16

[Paul Harrison]

On 15/01/2026 23:19, Alan wrote:

>>> I've just enable the plucky build for fixes/34. If James is correct
>>> and it does in fact build OK it should be available in the next few
>>> hours.
>>>
>> Looks like James is wrong 34 wont build on 25.04. It fails with missing
>> dependency on libqt5webkit5-dev which is required by the plugins.
>>
>>
>> Paul H.
>>
> Thanks guys for looking into this. :)
>
> Does it mean it is possible to get 34 working on 25.04 without plugins 
> or is that a complete no-go?
>
> My BE and FEs are fine (am keeping in Ub24.04 LTS and 34 for a while 
> before I start upgrading things(!)). This is just my browsing machine 
> so all I really need is recordings and videos.
>
> If so will this be made available in the repo as above or will I need 
> to build from source?
>
> many thanks
>
> Alan
>

There wont be a Ubuntu packaged version available from the PPA of 
fixes/34 for plucky or later simply because of the missing required 
dependency. The way the build recipes and scripts are set up you can't 
easily choose to just build MythTV core without the plugins for just a 
few selected Ubuntu versions.


You would either have to build your own packages or compile from source. 
I think if I remember correctly you need to pass  --disable-qtwebkit to 
configure, it may get disabled automatically if the required library is 
missing?


I should point out the reason for these problems are because Qt 
depreciated and later removed support for webkit and replaced it with 
webengine. Current MythTV does now support webengine and doesn't require 
webkit.


Paul H