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On 11/20/2013 3:59 PM, Thomas Mashos wrote:<br>
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<pre wrap="">On Wed, Nov 20, 2013 at 1:50 PM, Zig <a class="moz-txt-link-rfc2396E" href="mailto:jzigpublic@gmail.com"><jzigpublic@gmail.com></a> wrote:
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<pre wrap="">On 11/20/2013 3:27 PM, Thomas Mashos wrote:
On Wed, Nov 20, 2013 at 1:04 PM, Jason Ward <a class="moz-txt-link-rfc2396E" href="mailto:JasonFWard@gmail.com"><JasonFWard@gmail.com></a> wrote:
Their website has not been updated for around 18 months.
If they are defunct, what is now the best way to Myth for Ubuntu without
compiling from source?
If they are not defunct, does anyone know where I can find up to date
information on their releases?
Cheers
Jason
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Where were you looking that you think we haven't updated the site in
18 months? Our last blog post is from Sept 6th, 2013 (see
<a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="http://www.mythbuntu.org/home/news">http://www.mythbuntu.org/home/news</a> ).
We release a new major release every 2 years (with the Ubuntu LTS
release) and offer updates for it through our MythTV repo. We also do
point releases (our last release was 12.04.3 in September). Our next
release will be 14.04 in April 2014.
I thought I had covered everything, but if it truly looks like we're
not updating something I'd like the opportunity to fix it.
Thanks,
Thomas Mashos
The blog post page that you refer to lists the "Highlights" of 12.04.3 as
being MythTV version 0.25. This may lead some to believe that things are
out of date. Perhaps a remark under "Highlights" that changing to the 0.27
repositories can be done in the Mythbuntu Control Center along with a link
to the instructions explaining how to do the upgrade might make it sound
more up to date for the casual reader. Oddly enough (at least for novices),
you can't do the upgrade to 0.27 from the MCC (it leaves things in an
unusable state) you have to use the command line: apt-get dist-upgrade.
Ziggy
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Well you can't do any updates though MCC (you can just add the 0.27
repo). What exactly is broken? Is there a bug report?
Thanks,
Thomas Mashos
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If you open MCC and select "Repositories" and change it to 0.27<br>
then go to "System Updates" and select "Update Manager" and Check
for updates<br>
then select "Install Updates", it fails part way through, I don't
remember the exact errors, something about dependencies maybe? <br>
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This appears to all be done through MCC, perhaps ultimately the
Update Manager isn't part of MCC, but it feels like it's all part
one interface to the casual user.<br>
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Anyway the solution, as I understood it, was to open a terminal and
do apt-get dist-upgrade, which is not obvious to a novice.<br>
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I don't know that anything is broken, it's just that what seems like
the obvious path to upgrading to 0.27 isn't the correct path to
upgrading to 0.27. So if you come across Mythbuntu today and want
to try it with the latest version of MythTV, you can do everything
through the gui except this one relatively obscure step.<br>
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To get back to the topic, I just thought that mentioning the path to
0.27 by name in the Highlights section might make it seem more
current, but then I thought the caveats might be worth mentioning at
the same time.<br>
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I like Mythbuntu and wholeheartedly recommend it. It has the least
amount of caveats of all the distributions I have tried. Thanks to
the devs.<br>
Ziggy<br>
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