<div dir="ltr"><br><br><div class="gmail_quote"><div dir="ltr">On Sat, Dec 3, 2016 at 4:59 AM Stephen Worthington <<a href="mailto:stephen_agent@jsw.gen.nz">stephen_agent@jsw.gen.nz</a>> wrote:<br></div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex">On Sat, 3 Dec 2016 22:49:25 +1100, you wrote:<br class="gmail_msg">
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>>I tried a fresh install of mythbuntu 16.04.1 and had lots of issues so<br class="gmail_msg">
>>after reading a Jim Abernathy's threads decided to make a clone of my<br class="gmail_msg">
>>production system and update it.<br class="gmail_msg">
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>>Currently on 0.27 Fixes and 14.04.5.<br class="gmail_msg">
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>>Got the clone up and going but having trouble with the update to 0.28.<br class="gmail_msg">
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>>I enter MCC (Mythbuntu control centre) and select 0.28 in the repositories.<br class="gmail_msg">
>>It warns me I am going to use a development branch.<br class="gmail_msg">
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>>Surely this is incorrect. So I hit the update repositories button then<br class="gmail_msg">
>>after a short while I get an error, "URL Error : Failed to download new DB<br class="gmail_msg">
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>>Any ideas.<br class="gmail_msg">
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>>In Software & Updates Settings I have<br class="gmail_msg">
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>> Canonical-supported free and aopen-source software (main) and<br class="gmail_msg">
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>>Community-maintained free and open-source software (universe) and<br class="gmail_msg">
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>>Proprietry drivers for devices (restricted) and<br class="gmail_msg">
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>>Software restricted by copyright or legal issues (multiverse) all selected.<br class="gmail_msg">
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>>I have tried changing the source server to no avail!<br class="gmail_msg">
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>>Andrew<br class="gmail_msg">
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>That sounds like there is a problem at the server end. You can manually<br class="gmail_msg">
>change the repositories. What do you currently have in your<br class="gmail_msg">
>/etc/apt/sources.list file and in your /etc/apt/sources.list.d directory<br class="gmail_msg">
>files? You need to change the deb lines that say 0.27 to 0.28. You<br class="gmail_msg">
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>mythbuntu-0_27-trusty.list which should have something like this in<br class="gmail_msg">
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>deb <a href="http://ppa.launchpad.net/mythbuntu/0.27/ubuntu" rel="noreferrer" class="gmail_msg" target="_blank">http://ppa.launchpad.net/mythbuntu/0.27/ubuntu</a> trusty main # deb-src<br class="gmail_msg">
><a href="http://ppa.launchpad.net/mythbuntu/0.27/ubuntu" rel="noreferrer" class="gmail_msg" target="_blank">http://ppa.launchpad.net/mythbuntu/0.27/ubuntu</a> trusty main<br class="gmail_msg">
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>If so, change the 0.27 in both lines to 0.28 and rename the file to<br class="gmail_msg">
>mythbuntu-0_28-trusty.list. But MCC has had some bugs in how it has done<br class="gmail_msg">
>this in the past, so you need to check the /etc/apt/sources.list and all the<br class="gmail_msg">
>other /etc/apt/sources.list.d files to make sure they do not have any other<br class="gmail_msg">
>MythTV stuff in them that should not be there. Mine were dreadfully messed<br class="gmail_msg">
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>deleting all the old stuff and fixing where things were.<br class="gmail_msg">
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>Once you have the apt files sorted, you need to do "apt-get update"<br class="gmail_msg">
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>Checked this out and as you suggested OI do have a<br class="gmail_msg">
>mythbuntu-0_27-trusty.list file in /etc/apt/sources.list.d<br class="gmail_msg">
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>Could find no mythbuntu related lines at all in /etc/apt/sources.list, which<br class="gmail_msg">
>sounds like that is what it should be but not what you found.<br class="gmail_msg">
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>Will try changing that on the cloned copy and see how I go. Once that is<br class="gmail_msg">
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>On a none Mythtv issue, Any suggestions on where to read about grub2. I have<br class="gmail_msg">
>the cloned disk in the grub2 menu for the original disk but will need to<br class="gmail_msg">
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<br class="gmail_msg"></blockquote><div><br></div><div>You're getting the error about downloading the db file because you're still on 14.04 and the URL moved in 16.04</div><div><br></div><div>The correct location is in /etc/apt/sources.list.d/ for the repo file, or you can just run</div><div><pre class="inbox-inbox-command inbox-inbox-subordinate" id="inbox-inbox-yui_3_10_3_1_1480778376124_318" style="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0.8em;margin-left:2em;padding:0px;color:rgb(51,51,51);font-size:12px"><br></pre><pre class="inbox-inbox-command inbox-inbox-subordinate" id="inbox-inbox-yui_3_10_3_1_1480778376124_318" style="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0.8em;margin-left:2em;padding:0px;color:rgb(51,51,51);font-size:12px">sudo add-apt-repository ppa:mythbuntu/0.28</pre></div><div><br></div></div></div>