[mythtv-users] Problem with PPA?

Thomas Mashos thomas at mashos.com
Sat Oct 22 23:29:30 UTC 2016


Sounds like you don't have the mythbuntu repos enabled since that doesn't
depend on transcode.

On Sat, Oct 22, 2016 at 3:48 PM John Pilkington <J.Pilk at tesco.net> wrote:

> On 22/10/16 22:54, John Pilkington wrote:
> > On 22/10/16 22:25, David Williams wrote:
> >> I had a similar problem to sgreene59 of unmet dependencies when after
> >> upgrading I attempted to install mythtv-frontend. By entering them one
> >> by one with the exception of transcode they installed just fine.
> >>
> >> Now when I attempt to install mythv-frontend I receive this message:
> >> The following packages have unmet dependencies:
> >> mythtv-frontend : Depends: transcode but it is not installable
> >> E: Unable to correct problems, you have held broken packages.
> >>
> >> I did a bit of digging into Ubuntu and I discovered the following
> >> regarding transcode in yakkety:
> >>
> >> There is no current release of this source package in The Yakkety Yak.
> >> You can still report bugs, make translations, and so on, but they might
> >> not be used until the package is published.
> >>
> >> I’m stymied at this point and I welcome advice.
> >>
> > I added a comment about this earlier today to a 'frontend won't install'
> > ticket.  I doubt that the transcode package is still a real requirement;
> >  it was used years ago in mytharchive for requantising but has been
> > replaced there.  Can apt-get 'skip-broken'?
> >
>
> The specfile of the rpmfusion build for Fedora says transcode was
> dropped as a build requirement in March 2012...
>
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