[mythtv-users] Mixing MythBuntu with "normal" Ubuntu

[Brent Bolin]

On Tue, May 11, 2010 at 1:13 PM, Michael Tiller
<michael.tiller at gmail.com> wrote:
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> I've been using MythBuntu for some time and I really appreciate all the effort into making an "out of the box" distribution for running MythTV.
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> My new FE/BE is running MythBuntu 10.04 and I have another machine already running "normal" Lucid 10.04 that I'd like to use as a slave backend (and perhaps occasionally run a FE on).
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> I'm wondering what complications will come in this setup.  Is it OK to mix the version of MythTV that comes with Lucid with the one that comes with MythBuntu?  I would guess (although I'm not sure how I would verify this) that MythBuntu just uses the "upstream" version of MythTV from Lucid with a bunch of additional utilities and niceties thrown in but it seems possible that perhaps they are completely different builds (hence the potential problem).
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> I suppose the main concern is simply that the DB schema might change between the two versions and this seems like it could create serious problems.  Am I worrying about nothing here?
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> Finally, if I install the mythtv tools on a normal Lucid machine, is there a way to prevent any configuration that auto logs me in and runs the FE, etc?  I know I could probably easily undo these kinds of things (which would be really nice for a real FE) but I'm just wondering if there is a simple way to side step it.
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> Thanks for any help.
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> Mike
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I used Xubuntu alternative just for the raid and lvm setup of my back
end.  Just as others have said install myth control center.