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</div><div style="margin-bottom: 0in; line-height: 100%" id="yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1478101980713_2761">There’s something
here, what it is ain’t exactly clear …</div>
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<div style="margin-bottom: 0in; line-height: 100%" id="yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1478101980713_2764">I’m a long term
Mythtv user but far from a Linux maven. Ubuntu is my distro of
choice. I’m not having any success installing Mythtv using either
16.04 or 16.10 although using Ubuntu 14.04.5 it installs just fine
so I thought I’d ask for advice.
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<div style="margin-bottom: 0in; line-height: 100%" id="yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1478101980713_2767">Apt-cache policy
mythtv doesn’t show a problem. However, when I attempt to install
mythtv I receive the following message:</div>
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<div style="margin-bottom: 0in; line-height: 100%" id="yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1478101980713_2770"><code id="yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1478101980713_2771">Building
dependency tree </code>
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<div style="margin-bottom: 0in; line-height: 100%" id="yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1478101980713_2772"><code id="yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1478101980713_2773">Reading
state information... Done</code></div>
<div style="margin-bottom: 0in; line-height: 100%" id="yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1478101980713_2774"><code id="yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1478101980713_2775">Some
packages could not be installed. This may mean that you have</code></div>
<div style="margin-bottom: 0in; line-height: 100%" id="yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1478101980713_2776"><code id="yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1478101980713_2777">requested
an impossible situation or if you are using the unstable</code></div>
<div style="margin-bottom: 0in; line-height: 100%" id="yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1478101980713_2778"><code id="yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1478101980713_2779">distribution
that some required packages have not yet been created</code></div>
<div style="margin-bottom: 0in; line-height: 100%" id="yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1478101980713_2780"><code id="yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1478101980713_2781">or
been moved out of Incoming.</code></div>
<div style="margin-bottom: 0in; line-height: 100%" id="yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1478101980713_2782"><code id="yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1478101980713_2783">The
following information may help to resolve the situation:</code></div>
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<div style="margin-bottom: 0in; line-height: 100%" id="yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1478101980713_2786"><code id="yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1478101980713_2787">The
following packages have unmet dependencies:</code></div>
<div style="margin-bottom: 0in; line-height: 100%" id="yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1478101980713_2788"><code id="yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1478101980713_2789">
</code><code id="yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1478101980713_2790">mythtv : Depends: mythtv-frontend but it
is not going to be installed</code></div>
<div style="margin-bottom: 0in; line-height: 100%" id="yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1478101980713_2791"><code id="yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1478101980713_2792">E:
Unable to correct problems, you have held broken packages.</code></div>
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<div style="margin-bottom: 0in; line-height: 100%" id="yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1478101980713_2795">To cut to the chase
I repeatedly receive a message that transcode is a dependency but as
has been explained in another recent thread transcode is no longer
used. An effort to install transcode yields the following result:</div>
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<div style="margin-bottom: 0in; line-height: 100%" id="yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1478101980713_2798">Reading package
lists... Done</div>
<div style="margin-bottom: 0in; line-height: 100%" id="yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1478101980713_2799">Building dependency
tree
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<div style="margin-bottom: 0in; line-height: 100%" id="yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1478101980713_2800">Reading state
information... Done</div>
<div style="margin-bottom: 0in; line-height: 100%" id="yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1478101980713_2801">Package transcode is
not available, but is referred to by another package.</div>
<div style="margin-bottom: 0in; line-height: 100%" id="yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1478101980713_2802">This may mean that
the package is missing, has been obsoleted, or</div>
<div style="margin-bottom: 0in; line-height: 100%" id="yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1478101980713_2803">is only available
from another source</div>
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<div style="margin-bottom: 0in; line-height: 100%" id="yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1478101980713_2806">E: Package
'transcode' has no installation candidate</div>
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<div style="margin-bottom: 0in; line-height: 100%" id="yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1478101980713_2809">Eagerly awaiting
help.</div>
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<div style="margin-bottom: 0in; line-height: 100%" id="yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1478101980713_2812">Dave</div>
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