[mythtv-users] Upgrade order for MythTV vs Ubuntu

[Jim Abernathy]

On 7/24/20 11:49 AM, DryHeat122 wrote:
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> On Fri, Jul 24, 2020 at 5:29 AM jam at tigger.ws <mailto:jam at tigger.ws> 
> <jam at tigger.ws <mailto:jam at tigger.ws>> wrote:
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>     > On 24 Jul 2020, at 5:24 pm, Stephen Worthington
>     <stephen_agent at jsw.gen.nz <mailto:stephen_agent at jsw.gen.nz>> wrote:
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>     >> I run mariadb without any issues on ubuntu 20.04 by
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>     >> Downgrade: libmysqlclient21:amd64 (8.0.20-0ubuntu0.19.10.1,
>     8.0.19-0ubuntu5)
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>     >> Synaptic will do this using force version.
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>     >> Locking this in Synaptic wouldn't work for me so :-
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>     >> sudo apt-mark hold libmysqlclient21
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>     > Thanks for that, I wondered if that was an option but have not
>     had the
>     > time to try it.
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>     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.
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>     James
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> 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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On a fresh install Mythtv 31 will install and use MySQL unless you have 
previously installed MariaDB, then it will use that.

Jim A

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