[mythtv-users] ubuntu mythtv fixes packages haven't 'auto built' since mid july

[Martin Compton]

On 09/05/2017 08:37 AM, Tim Pletcher wrote:
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> On Mon, Sep 4, 2017 at 9:59 PM Peter Bennett <cats22 at comcast.net 
> <mailto:cats22 at comcast.net>> wrote:
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>     On 09/04/2017 04:24 PM, Tim Pletcher wrote:
>     > Hi all,
>     >
>     > I updated my 0.28 installation today to 0.28.20170903 and my
>     > installation now indicates that mythtv-common and mythweb are held
>     > back yet all other packages upgraded.
>     >
>     > It appears that mythtv-common it is held back due to missing
>     > dependencies on python-future and python-requests-cache which are
>     > indicated to be unavailable. Anyone have any guidance as to what
>     to do
>     > now?  It looks like my metadata collection jobs now appear to be
>     > failing and I assume it is because I have a system which
>     partially on
>     > the 2010903 version.
>     >
>     > Any suggestions on what I might be able to do to restore version
>     > consistency?
>     >
>     > Thanks,
>     > Tim
>     Those packages are available in ubuntu xenial (16.04) but not earlier
>     versions. I assume you have an older version of ubuntu.
>
>     Here is my suggestion
>
>     Go to Ubuntu package search https://packages.ubuntu.com/
>     Search for the following packages in ubuntu-xenial: python-future,
>     python-requests, python-requests-cache
>     Click on the package name in the web page
>     At the bottom of the page there are download links for
>     architecture "all"
>     Download the deb file for each package
>     install gdebi-core on your system
>     Use "sudo gdebi" to install each of these packages.
>     Then go back and upgrade again.
>
>     This should work, the xenial packages do not have any strange
>     dependencies.
>
>     Peter
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> Thank you Peter.  Following your suggestion, I installed the packages 
> from the Xenial site and was able to resolve the dependencies so that 
> mythtv-common and mythweb would upgrade to the latest version from the 
> mythbuntu 0.28 repo.
>
> Consequently, I had to also update the python-urllib3 package with the 
> one from the Xenial site using the same approach because the metadata 
> grabber scripts were still failing.  The newer urllib3 package is 
> needed because the version from Trusty is not compatible with the 
> urllib3.disable_warnings() call added to the latest 0.28 metadata 
> scripts.
>
> My system seems to be working without further issue now even though I 
> remain on 14.04.
>
> Tim
Thanks!  This info saved me a lot of pain and time.  Got the latest 0.28 
running on 14.04, and fixed my metadatalookup error.

Guess I will have to schedule an upgrade to 16.04.
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