[mythtv-users] Ubuntu 20.04 daily builds

Paul Harrison mythtv at mythqml.net
Fri Dec 6 12:00:03 UTC 2019


On 06/12/2019 11:25, Stephen Worthington wrote:
> On Thu, 5 Dec 2019 19:43:22 -0600, you wrote:
>
>> I need to migrate from 14.04, upgraded the my virtual machine server to
>> Centos 8 and having issues with stability with my old 14.04 running .27
>> fixes. Hard to track down and figure it just needs to get upgraded so was
>> thinking about going to a 20.04 daily build and using the ppa for .30, but
>> was wondering if anyone has done that yet and if any major issues.
>>
>> I'm not in a big rush and could do 18.04 but would love to skip the upgrade
>> if possible.
>>
>> Thanks! :)
> If you are planning to actually upgrade the 14.04 system, rather than
> do a new install of 20.04 daily, then you have to do the upgrades in
> between anyway: 14.04 => 16.04 => 18.04 => 20.04.  And the LTS upgrade
> code is not normally available until the .1 version anyway, so 18.04
> => 20.04.1 and 20.04.1 will not be available for several weeks after
> the release of 20.04.  So realistically, you can only upgrade to 18.04
> at present.  If you really, really want to use 20.04 at this stage
> when it is guaranteed to still be very buggy, your only options are a
> new install, or do the LTS upgrades to 18.04 and then upgrade 18.04 =>
> 18.10 => 19.04 => 19.10 => 20.04.
>
> And you need to be wary of kernels as recent as the ones that are in
> 20.04 daily as they may well break your tuners - there have had to be
> patches for broken tuner support in some recent kernels (in 19.10 I
> think - I did not follow what happened except in passing).
>
> What video card are you using?  If you have an ancient (now
> unsupported) Nvidia chipset, then you can not upgrade beyond 16.04
> anyway as the older kernels in 16.04 are the last ones that the old
> Nvidia drivers work with.  Even in 16.04 you would have had to stop
> upgrading the kernel months ago to keep the necessary Nvidia support,
> or manually patch and install the old Nvidia drivers.


Also the MythBuntu PPA currently isn't building MythTV packages for 20.04


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Paul H.



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