[mythtv-users] Mythtv and Ubuntu, where to find latest version?

Peter Abplanalp pta-myth at psaconsultants.com
Thu Aug 26 18:01:01 UTC 2010


On Thu, Aug 26, 2010 at 11:58 AM, Thomas Mashos <tgm4883 at gmail.com> wrote:
> On Thu, Aug 26, 2010 at 10:44 AM, Steve Malenfant <smalenfant at gmail.com>
> wrote:
>>
>> Yes it does and I selected it. I tried without and with testing PPA. No
>> difference. I went and browsed and there is no 0.23-1 or 0.23.1 folders on
>> the mythbuntu "repo".
>> Have someone successfully installed that on 10.04 ?
>>
>> On Thu, Aug 26, 2010 at 1:29 PM, Thomas Mashos <tgm4883 at gmail.com> wrote:
>>>
>>> On Thu, Aug 26, 2010 at 10:16 AM, Steve Malenfant <smalenfant at gmail.com>
>>> wrote:
>>>>
>>>> Here they are..
>>>> steve at steve-8200:~$ sudo dpkg -l mythbuntu-repos
>>>> Desired=Unknown/Install/Remove/Purge/Hold
>>>> |
>>>> Status=Not/Inst/Cfg-files/Unpacked/Failed-cfg/Half-inst/trig-aWait/Trig-pend
>>>> |/ Err?=(none)/Reinst-required (Status,Err: uppercase=bad)
>>>> ||/ Name                                          Version
>>>>                         Description
>>>>
>>>> +++-=============================================-=============================================-==========================================================================================================
>>>> ii  mythbuntu-repos
>>>> 8.2-0ubuntu0+mythbuntu~auto20100819002723     Mythbuntu repos installer
>>>> steve at steve-8200:~$ lsb_release -a
>>>> No LSB modules are available.
>>>> Distributor ID: Ubuntu
>>>> Description:    Ubuntu 10.04.1 LTS
>>>> Release:        10.04
>>>> Codename:       lucid
>>>>
>>>> On Thu, Aug 26, 2010 at 12:23 PM, Thomas Mashos <tgm4883 at gmail.com>
>>>> wrote:
>>>>>
>>>>> On Thu, Aug 26, 2010 at 9:10 AM, Steve Malenfant <smalenfant at gmail.com>
>>>>> wrote:
>>>>>>
>>>>>> Seems like 0.23.1 isn't available yet from looking at this forum :
>>>>>>
>>>>>> http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?s=94b9a005457f87a3032c58126be86c46&t=1545953
>>>>>>
>>>>>> On Thu, Aug 26, 2010 at 11:54 AM, Steve Malenfant
>>>>>> <smalenfant at gmail.com> wrote:
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>> Thanks Marc,
>>>>>>> Although seems like the 0.23.1 files are missing... I finally figured
>>>>>>> out how to install a "deb" package from CLI and then tried to update.
>>>>>>> Now using the "Update Manager" but failed too.. and there is a big
>>>>>>> problem I see with Ubuntu about "clicking" buttons which doesn't work in VNC
>>>>>>> when they pop up or with a local mouse if the update occurs during mythtv
>>>>>>> being up. Not been the greatest experience with Ubuntu so far compared to
>>>>>>> Fedora/Centos.
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>> On Thu, Aug 26, 2010 at 12:46 AM, Marc Randolph <mrand at pobox.com>
>>>>>>> wrote:
>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>> On Wed, Aug 25, 2010 at 8:28 PM, Steve Malenfant
>>>>>>>> <smalenfant at gmail.com> wrote:
>>>>>>>> > I have been a Fedora/Centos user for a long time. I had my great
>>>>>>>> > and bad
>>>>>>>> > experiences. Finding support wasn't that hard (mostly atrpms for
>>>>>>>> > packages).
>>>>>>>> > I have a Centos 5.5 backend which updated to 0.23.1. Update went
>>>>>>>> > smoothly
>>>>>>>> > except for libdvdread package dependency issue. I know how to
>>>>>>>> > solve those.
>>>>>>>> >
>>>>>>>> > But, my Ubuntu frontend doesn't update from 0.23 to 0.23.1. I
>>>>>>>> > don't have
>>>>>>>> > mythbuntu, can't find good support on how to make it up-datable to
>>>>>>>> > 0.23.1
>>>>>>>> >
>>>>>>>> > Can someone help? Network protocol version on Centos 5.5 0.23.1 is
>>>>>>>> > 23056 and
>>>>>>>> > on Ubuntu 0.23 is 56. This setup has been working for a year now,
>>>>>>>> > but
>>>>>>>> > suddenly just broke.
>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>> Howdy Steve,
>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>> In order to not break compatibility with existing installs (i.e.,
>>>>>>>> exactly what you ran into with the Centos update), you have to
>>>>>>>> manually select moving forward to 0.23.1.   If you haven't already,
>>>>>>>> you'll need to enable auto-builds
>>>>>>>> (http://www.mythbuntu.org/auto-builds).  If you do already have
>>>>>>>> auto-builds enabled, I believe that you need to update to the latest
>>>>>>>> mythbuntu-repos pacakge and reconfiguring (either via MCC or sudo
>>>>>>>> dpkg-reconfigure mythbuntu-repos).
>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>   Marc
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>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>> 0.23.1 is available in the PPA. What is the output of both of these
>>>>> commands
>>>>> dpkg -l mythbuntu-repos
>>>>> lsb_release -a
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>>>
>>> Hi Steve,
>>> If you do
>>> dpkg-reconfigure mythbuntu-repos
>>> Does it give you 0.23.1 as an option?
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>
> I have. When reconfiguring the package, select PPA. Then do an "apt-get
> update && apt-get upgrade". That should download the update for you.

one should probably note that this will upgrade *every* upgradable
package which may or may not be what you want.



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