[mythtv-users] Updating to 0.28 and Mythbuntu 16.04.1

Stephen Worthington stephen_agent at jsw.gen.nz
Sat Dec 3 12:59:15 UTC 2016


On Sat, 3 Dec 2016 22:49:25 +1100, you wrote:

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>>Hi All,
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>>I tried a fresh install of mythbuntu 16.04.1 and had lots of issues so 
>>after reading a Jim Abernathy's threads decided to make a clone of my 
>>production system and update it.
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>>Currently on 0.27 Fixes and 14.04.5.
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>>Got the clone up and going but having trouble with the update to 0.28.
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>>I enter MCC (Mythbuntu control centre) and select 0.28 in the repositories.
>>It warns me I am going to use a development branch.
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>>Surely this is incorrect. So I hit the update repositories button then 
>>after a short while I get an error, "URL Error : Failed to download new DB
>File"
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>>Any ideas. 
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>>In Software & Updates Settings I have
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>> Canonical-supported free and aopen-source software (main)  and
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>>Community-maintained free and open-source software (universe) and
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>>Proprietry drivers for devices (restricted) and
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>>Software restricted by copyright or legal issues (multiverse) all selected.
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>>I have tried changing the source server to no avail!
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>>Andrew
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>That sounds like there is a problem at the server end.  You can manually
>change the repositories.  What do you currently have in your
>/etc/apt/sources.list file and in your /etc/apt/sources.list.d directory
>files?  You need to change the deb lines that say 0.27 to 0.28.  You
>probably have a file in /etc/apt/sources.list.d called
>mythbuntu-0_27-trusty.list which should have something like this in
>it:
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>deb http://ppa.launchpad.net/mythbuntu/0.27/ubuntu trusty main # deb-src
>http://ppa.launchpad.net/mythbuntu/0.27/ubuntu trusty main
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>If so, change the 0.27 in both lines to 0.28 and rename the file to
>mythbuntu-0_28-trusty.list.  But MCC has had some bugs in how it has done
>this in the past, so you need to check the /etc/apt/sources.list and all the
>other /etc/apt/sources.list.d files to make sure they do not have any other
>MythTV stuff in them that should not be there. Mine were dreadfully messed
>up when I came to do the 0.27 to 0.28 upgrade, so I had to spend some time
>deleting all the old stuff and fixing where things were.
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>Once you have the apt files sorted, you need to do "apt-get update"
>and "apt-get upgrade"  (or maybe "apt-get dist-upgrade").
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>Checked this out and as you suggested OI do have a
>mythbuntu-0_27-trusty.list file in /etc/apt/sources.list.d
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>Could find no mythbuntu related lines at all in /etc/apt/sources.list, which
>sounds like that is what it should be but not what you found.
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>Will try changing that on the cloned copy and see how I go. Once that is
>working I will let it run for a while before trying to go to 16.04.
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>On a none Mythtv issue, Any suggestions on where to read about grub2. I have
>the cloned disk in the grub2 menu for  the original disk but will need to
>eventually transfer grub to the cloned disk so it can boot without the
>original disk.
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>Andrew 
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>Thanks

This is the page I usually wind up using when I need to mess around
with Grub2 problems:

https://help.ubuntu.com/community/Grub2/Installing


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