[mythtv-users] How do I install latest fixes?

John Drescher drescherjm at gmail.com
Tue Aug 19 16:19:23 UTC 2008


On Tue, Aug 19, 2008 at 12:12 PM, Allen Edwards
<allen.edwards at oldpaloalto.com> wrote:
> I am fighting a problem that several others have but one person does
> not.  The person without the problem says he is using version 18116
> and I am using 16838.  I wanted to get a newer version.  I looked at
> the wiki and it said to check out SVN for 2.1 fixes.  I followed the
> link and
> I saw this:
>
> Welcome to the MythTV Trac server ¶
>
> Stable: If you'd like to get the 0.21 stable branch, do this:
>
> svn co http://svn.mythtv.org/svn/branches/release-0-21-fixes/
>
>
> so I did that.
>
> A long time later, it announced that I had version 18179 "checked out"
>
> I then ran mythfrontend --version and it says my version is still 16838
>
> I have restarted the machine and still have 16838.
>

You just checked out the source. To install you need to build it,
remove the installed version and install the source.

The following blog may be a little helpful:

http://www.jnewcastle.com/blog/2008/02/04/building-mythtv-from-svn

John


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