[mythtv-users] apt-errors trying to upgrade mythbuntu to 29.0+fixes

[Stephen Worthington]

On Mon, 04 Dec 2017 11:40:24 -0500, you wrote:

>When trying to upgrade my 0.28+fixes to 29+fixes using:
>
>http://ppa.launchpad.net/mythbuntu/0.29/
>
>I am getting:
>
># apt-get install mythtv-backend
>Reading package lists... Done
>Building dependency tree       
>Reading state information... Done
>Some packages could not be installed. This may mean that you have
>requested an impossible situation or if you are using the unstable
>distribution that some required packages have not yet been created
>or been moved out of Incoming.
>The following information may help to resolve the situation:
>
>The following packages have unmet dependencies:
> mythtv-backend : Depends: libmyth (>= 2:29.0+fixes.20171128.39b2062) but it is not going to be installed
>E: Unable to correct problems, you have held broken packages.
>
>I could most certainly force things into place but I wonder what the
>actual correct solution is here.  Am I the only person who has run into
>this?
>
>Cheers,
>b.

In Ubuntu 16.04+, to upgrade between different versions, you need to
do:

apt update
apt dist-upgrade

An ordinary upgrade is insufficient to change versions, it needs
dist-upgrade.