[mythtv-users] Ubuntu 18.04.1 LTS do-release-upgrade with Mythtv

[Stephen Worthington]

On Sun, 7 Oct 2018 19:00:22 -0600, you wrote:

>On Sun, Oct 7, 2018 at 4:14 PM Phill Edwards <philledwards at gmail.com> wrote:
>
>>
>> On Sun., 7 Oct. 2018, 11:03 pm Jim Abernathy, <jfabernathy at gmail.com>
>> wrote:
>>
>>> Has anybody who has a working Ubuntu 16.04.5 system with mythtv backend
>>> V29 been brave enough to run do-release-upgrade and see what happens?
>>>
>>
>> Be prepared for lirc to break.
>>
>
>THIS.  I stumbled across this workaround:
>https://twosortoftechguys.wordpress.com/2018/07/24/make-lirc-work-in-ubuntu-18-04/

It is not necessary to revert to the 16.04 version of lirc.  Just use
the script I wrote to fix the 18.04 lirc package:

http://www.jsw.gen.nz/mythtv/lirc-ubuntu-18.04-install.sh

See the earlier threads "Remote control issue after Ubuntu upgrade"
and "Blasting to STB,using a MCEUSB" for more discussion of this.