[mythtv-users] mythbuntu PPA on Trusty python-requests-cache not available

Steven Adeff adeffs.mythtv at gmail.com
Sun Feb 25 04:29:03 UTC 2018


ah, for some reason that thread didn't come up in my searches nor that
wiki page, I think because they doesn't include what happens if you
don't follow those steps, so you have to already know the solution to
the problem to find them.

thanks!!!

On Sat, Feb 24, 2018 at 9:30 PM, Jay Foster <jayf0ster at roadrunner.com> wrote:
> On 02/24/2018 03:11 PM, Steven Adeff wrote:
>>
>> anyone else running the mythbuntu PPA on Trusty run into this? maybe
>> figured out a solution?
>>
>> # apt-get -q install mythtv-common
>> Reading package lists...
>> Building dependency tree...
>> Reading state information...
>> 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-common : Depends: python-requests-cache but it is not installable
>>                   Recommends: mythtv-dbg but it is not going to be
>> installed
>> E: Unable to correct problems, you have held broken packages.
>> root at MythCenter:~/Downloads/mythbuntu# ls
>> mythtv-common_0.28.2+fixes.20180202.8238e83-0ubuntu0mythbuntu2_amd64.deb
>> root at MythCenter:~/Downloads/mythbuntu# dpkg -i
>> mythtv-common_0.28.2+fixes.20180202.8238e83-0ubuntu0mythbuntu2_amd64.deb
>> Selecting previously unselected package mythtv-common.
>> (Reading database ... 272314 files and directories currently installed.)
>> Preparing to unpack
>> mythtv-common_0.28.2+fixes.20180202.8238e83-0ubuntu0mythbuntu2_amd64.deb
>> ...
>> Unpacking mythtv-common
>> (2:0.28.2+fixes.20180202.8238e83-0ubuntu0mythbuntu2) ...
>> dpkg: dependency problems prevent configuration of mythtv-common:
>>   mythtv-common depends on python-requests-cache; however:
>>    Package python-requests-cache is not installed.
>>
>> dpkg: error processing package mythtv-common (--install):
>>   dependency problems - leaving unconfigured
>> Processing triggers for man-db (2.6.7.1-1ubuntu1) ...
>> Errors were encountered while processing:
>>   mythtv-common
>>
>>
> I am running 0.28 on mythbuntu 14.04 (Trusty) just fine.  Before I upgraded
> from 0.27.x to 0.28, I first had to manually install some python packages
> from Xenial (16.04).  This was needed to get the TVDB listings to keep
> working (https://www.mythtv.org/wiki/TheTVDB_API_v2).  Perhaps you need to
> pull those first?  Also refer to the mythtv-users topic, "Upgrade your
> system for TheTVDB update on October 1st 2017" for more details.
>
> I upgraded from 0.27 to 0.28 using the mythbuntu PPA and doing a regular
> apt-get update.  Something along the lines of "sudo add-apt-repository
> ppa:mythbuntu/0.28".
>
> Jay
>
>
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