[mythtv-users] Unable to install MythTV on UbuntuMATE Linux 16.04

Stephen Worthington stephen_agent at jsw.gen.nz
Sun May 13 08:56:46 UTC 2018


On Sun, 13 May 2018 16:40:02 +0800, you wrote:

>On 13/05/2018, George Poulson <george.poulson at gmail.com> wrote:
>> As a previous poster has said, mysql and mariadb are equivalents.
>> An application that needs an sql database *should* be able to use either
>> mysql or mariadb.
>>
>
>But not mythtv.

Yes, MythTV can use MySQL.  But somehow not your install of MySQL - I
do not know why.  But it is better to be using MariaDB anyway.

If you attempt to install MariaDB, anything that relies on it may also
need to be uninstalled.  But uninstalling is not purging - all the
setup for the software, including any databases, is still there.  So
all you do after MariaDB has installed is to re-install any packages
that got uninstalled.  But, apart from MythTV, there is unlikely to be
anything else using MySQL unless your PC has a long history.  Try it
and see if there are any other packages flagged to be uninstalled - if
you do not like what you see, then just cancel the MariaDB install.


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