[mythtv-users] Upgrade order for MythTV vs Ubuntu

[DryHeat122]

On Fri, Jul 24, 2020 at 5:29 AM jam at tigger.ws <jam at tigger.ws> wrote:

>
>
> > On 24 Jul 2020, at 5:24 pm, Stephen Worthington <
> stephen_agent at jsw.gen.nz> wrote:
> >
> >>
> >> I run mariadb without any issues on ubuntu 20.04 by
> >>
> >> Downgrade: libmysqlclient21:amd64 (8.0.20-0ubuntu0.19.10.1,
> 8.0.19-0ubuntu5)
> >>
> >> Synaptic will do this using force version.
> >>
> >> Locking this in Synaptic wouldn't work for me so :-
> >>
> >> sudo apt-mark hold libmysqlclient21
> >
> > Thanks for that, I wondered if that was an option but have not had the
> > time to try it.
>
> Since I was unable to get myth to install from the repos
> I installed a LAMP server that happened to use mysql
> I built from src as per the wiki and using ansible
> my frontend and backend run on 20.04
> total time was about 1 hour
> mythbackend has been running perfectly for months.
>
> James
>

Why does Myth 31 use mariadb instead of mysql?  Is there something wrong
with mysql?  I've never had a problem with it.  Can you choose to go with
mysql rather than mariadb when installing?
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