[mythtv-users] Upgrade to Ubuntu 9.10 disasters - please help; (

[Michael T. Dean]

On 01/25/2010 03:24 PM, Ben Edwards wrote:
> 2010/1/25 Michael T. Dean
>   
>> On 01/24/2010 05:50 PM, Ben Edwards wrote:
>>>  theme does not
>>> work
>>>       
>> Because you have specified a broken theme, you need to start
>> mythfrontend, change the theme /to a valid theme/, exit mythfrontend,
>> then start mythfrontend.
>>
>> Best way to do this is to get rid of all the 0.21-fixes garbage
>> (including old, broken themes)...
> OK, I changed to the mythubuntu theme and the I now get a different one.
> Blue and Retro both don't work, are these also discontinued.
>
> Not sure how to get rid of 0.21-fixes garbage and broken themes.  I have
> found a bunch of *myth*0.21* files and moved them to a backup directory.  I
> did have some problems with apt-get and folowed a howto that included
> deleting some what I thought were cashe files.  I get this type of thing a
> lot:
>
> dpkg: warning: files list file for package `libgnutls13' missing, assuming
> package has no files currently installed.
>
> dpkg: warning: files list file for package `libhttp-cache-transparent-perl'
> missing, assuming package has no files currently installed.
>
> dpkg: warning: files list file for package `libwrap0' missing, assuming
> package has no files currently installed.
>
> dpkg: warning: files list file for package `netcat' missing, assuming
> package has no files currently installed.
>
>
> I know I said I had compiled from source but this was years ago.  0.21-0.21
> was a apt-get type upgrade.
>   

Keeping in mind that I do not know *buntu (so there may be "easier"
ways), there's always the option of
http://www.mythtv.org/wiki/Database_Backup_and_Restore followed by a
full re-install of Ubuntu 9.10.

Mike