[mythtv-users] apt-get upgrade = borked mythtv

[Steve Adeff]

On Sunday 16 October 2005 16:44, Tom Hines wrote:
> On 10/15/05, Kevin Kuphal <kuphal at dls.net> wrote:
> > Word to the wise (and I'm sure this doesn't help you much now), but I
> > think you're much better off keeping to the "if it ain't broke dont' fix
> > it" philosophy with the underlying components that MythTV relies on such
> > as the OS, QT, drivers, etc.  Unless you had some reason to upgrade
> > every component in your system at once, I'd say, leave well enough alone.
>
> Good advice -- which I had followed until this.  I started out wanting
> to install Xine, so that I could play DVDs including menu.  Then I
> remembered that I could never transcode anything, or rip DVDs from
> Myth either.  And XvMC mpeg2 hw decoding never worked for my PVR-250
> either.  Then I saw all these updates to MythTV and in a moment of
> greed/weakness thought that these would all be magically fixed.  Oh
> well, live and learn.
>
> The irony is that my best hope for getting my Tomvo back up and
> running is to do an apt-get upgrade every day until it just works.  At
> least, that's all I can think of.
>
> On 10/16/05, chris at cpr.homelinux.net <chris at cpr.homelinux.net> wrote:
> > I'd love to know the etymology of that word.  Wikipedia says "possibly"
> > related to the Swedish Chef (which was the first thing I thought of),
> > although it could be an homage to the failed nomination of Robert Bork
> > to the US Supreme Court.
>
> I'd always assumed it was the latter.
>
> Tom

What sources do you have active? I find having Stable normally active with 
Testing and Unstable available but commented out lets me safely update and if 
I want to be bleeding edge I will enable Testing then Unstable in that order. 
I also find for some apps its better to enable Unstable source and build 
using Stable's dev packages using apt-get build. Sometimes though they will 
require new versions of other packages you have, at which point it takes some 
more manual lovin' to get to work. But like you and the others have said, for 
a "my wife needs to watch desperate housewives tonight" system, just leave 
it ;-)

Steve

Steve