[mythtv-users] help! Ubuntu upgrade ate my mythtv

[Dan Kressin]

I did a series of Ubuntu / Mythtv upgrades this weekend on my combined FE/BE.  Started as 7.04 / .20.2 which had been running great since being installed when those were current.  I used do-release-upgrade to go to 7.10 (.21) and further to 8.04 (.21+fixes), testing my setup after each with no problems.  Last night I went the next step to 10.04 (.23+fixes) and at the end I answered 'yes' to remove obsolete packages.  I saw a few myth packages in the list, but assumed they were leftovers from .21+fixes.  Apparently not since it removed mythtv-backend and mythtv-database, as well as a few inconsequential plug-ins (mythnews, mythweather, etc).

mysql is still installed (now at 5.1.70), mythv user and homedir still exist, as do my recordings.

So my questions:
1) Can I simply "apt-get install mythtv-backend" and be whole?  What about mythtv-database?
2) How can I determine whether mythconverg still exists and is at the correct version?  (latest backup file I have is mythconverg-1214-20130805063609.sql.gz)
3) Is there anything else I should be wary about?

Here's the output of "dpkg -l | grep myth":
rc  libmyth-0.20                               0.20.2-0ubuntu10.1                  
rc  libmyth-0.21-0                             0.21.0+fixes18207-0ubuntu4~hardy1   
ii  libmyth-0.23-0                             0.23.0+fixes24158-0ubuntu2          
ii  libmyth-python                             0.23.0+fixes24158-0ubuntu2          
ii  mythgallery                                0.23.0+fixes24104-0ubuntu2          
rc  mythtv-backend                             0.23.0+fixes24158-0ubuntu2          
ii  mythtv-common                              0.23.0+fixes24158-0ubuntu2          
rc  mythtv-database                            0.23.0+fixes24158-0ubuntu2          
ii  mythtv-doc                                 0.23.0+fixes24158-0ubuntu2          
ii  mythtv-frontend                            0.23.0+fixes24158-0ubuntu2          
ii  mythvideo                                  0.23.0+fixes24104-0ubuntu2          
ii  mythweb                                    0.23.0+fixes24104-0ubuntu2          
rc  ubuntu-mythtv-frontend                     0.21.0+fixes18207-0ubuntu4~hardy1   

I seriously appreciate any help in getting the old boy going again.

Thanks,
-Dan
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