[mythtv-users] Todays update broke 0.24. Backend not running. HELP

[John Baab]

On Wed, Oct 20, 2010 at 12:58 PM, Douglas Peale
<Douglas_Peale at comcast.net> wrote:
> I was running 0.24 from http://ppa.launchpad.net/mythbuntu/0.24/ubuntu
>
> I updated today, and it tried to force me back to 0.23.1. I managed to find the YouMustBeThisTallToRide option so I could keep
> it at 0.24 but the update failed
>
> After rebooting, (a new kennel was in todays update) there was one more thing to update: libmyth-0.24-0, but attempting to do
> this update fails.
>
> It suggested I remove all ppa (no chance if I want to keep running mythTV) and run "apt get install -f". I tried that with the
> following result:
>
> $ sudo apt-get install -f
> Reading package lists... Done
> Building dependency tree
> Reading state information... Done
> Correcting dependencies... Done
> The following packages were automatically installed and are no longer required:
>  python-bugbuddy python-gnomedesktop python-evince libnspr4-dev libgexiv2-0 libavutil-extra-49 python-totem-plparser kdesudo
> libpoppler5 libpoppler-glib4 firefox-3.0 update-manager-kde
>  python-mediaprofiles libqt4-webkit python-metacity python-gtop
> Use 'apt-get autoremove' to remove them.
> The following extra packages will be installed:
>  libmyth-0.24-0
> The following NEW packages will be installed:
>  libmyth-0.24-0
> 0 upgraded, 1 newly installed, 0 to remove and 0 not upgraded.
> 14 not fully installed or removed.
> Need to get 0B/11.9MB of archives.
> After this operation, 32.7MB of additional disk space will be used.
> Do you want to continue [Y/n]? y
> (Reading database ... 331669 files and directories currently installed.)
> Unpacking libmyth-0.24-0 (from .../libmyth-0.24-0_0.24.0+fixes26902-0ubuntu0+mythbuntu2_amd64.deb) ...
> dpkg: error processing /var/cache/apt/archives/libmyth-0.24-0_0.24.0+fixes26902-0ubuntu0+mythbuntu2_amd64.deb (--unpack):
>  trying to overwrite '/usr/lib/libmythfreemheg-0.24.so.0.24.0', which is also in package libmyth-0.23-0
> 0.24.0~trunk26882-0ubuntu0~mythbuntu2
> dpkg-deb: subprocess paste killed by signal (Broken pipe)
> Errors were encountered while processing:
>  /var/cache/apt/archives/libmyth-0.24-0_0.24.0+fixes26902-0ubuntu0+mythbuntu2_amd64.deb
> E: Sub-process /usr/bin/dpkg returned an error code (1)
>
>
> I tried running the synaptic package manager and installing libmyth-0.24-0, but that resulted in this error:
>
> E: /var/cache/apt/archives/libmyth-0.24-0_0.24.0+fixes26902-0ubuntu0+mythbuntu2_amd64.deb: trying to overwrite
> '/usr/lib/libmythfreemheg-0.24.so.0.24.0', which is also in package libmyth-0.23-0 0.24.0~trunk26882-0ubuntu0~mythbuntu2
>
>
> libmyth-0.23.0 is still installed. I tried uninstalling that, but it won't let me uninstall that without also instaalling
> libmyth-0.24.0, and then it errors out because there is a file both are trying to overwrite.
>
>
> How do I untangle this mess?
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Try this:
sudo dpkg --purge libmyth-0.23
sudo apt-get -f install