[mythtv-users] Ubuntu 9.04 broke MythTv

[Johnny]

On Mon, May 25, 2009 at 10:18 PM, Johnny <jarpublic at gmail.com> wrote:
>> 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.
>
> It looks like you are missing pwgen, a simple program used to generate
> passwords. This is causing the mythtv installation to fail because it
> can't find that program when it needs to use it. Try installing or
> reinstalling that.
>
> sudo aptitude install pwgen
>

Also you will then want to reinstall the mythtv packages and check for
any errors to make sure it works now. As long as there aren't any
other missing dependencies then this should finish installation fine.