[mythtv-users] Ubuntu 9.04 broke MythTv

[Mike Adolf]

ryan patterson wrote:
> On Mon, May 25, 2009 at 6:56 PM, Mike Adolf <mlnx at mho.com> wrote:
>   
>> I was running Ubuntu 8.10 and ,after considerable effort, MythTv was working
>> fine. I did the default upgrade to 9.04. When I tried to start the backend,
>> I got the following error,
>> -------------------
>> mythbackend: error while loading shared libraries: libartsc.so.0: cannot
>> open shared object file: No such file or directory
>> -------------------
>> Did this happen to anyone else? Is it fixable? I really don't want to
>> reinstall MythTv
>>
>> Mike
>>     
>
> I upgraded my backend and frontends from ubuntu 8.10 to 9.04 weeks ago
> with no issues.
>
> For a possible solution to your problem try running, "sudo apt-get
> install mythtv-backend-master mythtv-frontend"  That should install
> all the required packages.  It shouldn't overwrite any settings or
> recordings for your current MythTV install.  Watch the output from the
> command.  It might say something about a package not being upgraded or
> held back or something.
>   
Thanks for the suggestion, but it failed with

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Preconfiguring packages ...
/tmp/mythtv-common.config.108271: 26: pwgen: not found
mythtv-common failed to preconfigure, with exit status 127
Selecting previously deselected package ntp.
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It looked like it was trying to set up net control for other masters and 
something to do with the internet. My installation, however, was just on 
a single machine.

I guess I just reinstall. How do I uninstall the current one?

Mike