[mythtv-users] Upgrading knoppmyth to ubuntu
Nick Rout
nick at rout.co.nz
Wed Oct 24 04:12:16 UTC 2007
Cecil Watson wrote:
> Nick Rout wrote:
>
>> knoppmyth has been good to me but I am thinking of changing to mythbuntu
>> to get some newer versions and access to more frequent builds. All too
>> often the answer to little issues has been fixed, but not yet in
>> knoppmyth!
>>
> Glad to know we've been good to you. Newer versions of what? There is
> nothing stopping a user from installing the version of MythTV he or she
> wants, with KnoppMyth. All the deps are there (I included them for this
> purpose) and there is even a script on the forum that will do this for
> you. We general upgrade to a newer version of MythTV when there is a
> major reason to do so.
>
So this is compiling it yourself rather than a binary package. Maybe I
should try that.
> Can you give any examples? If there are issues w/ KnoppMyth, I'd like
> to know so they can be fixed.
>
Nothing really major, i just keep seeing messages about "thats in
-fixes" or -trunk. Newer versions of myth seem to have some exciting new
features.
I am presently on knopp R5E50 and feel the need to update it (presently
R5F27). So I have to back up and update it anyway, I thought I might try
something different that perhaps won't need quite the operation that
knoppmyth seems to be to upgrade (I'd much prefer to just do a apt-get
upgrade).
So no offence to knoppmyth at all, its been great fun, and much better
than my own gentoo efforts! Its just while updating I may as well try
something different (famous last words perhaps).
>> knoppmyth has all data in a separate partition (/myth).
>>
>>
> Which makes it easy to upgrade.
>
>> So a few questions:
>>
>> 1. can i set up mythbuntu without destroying that partition?
>>
>>
> Don't know. Don't see why not.
>
>> 2. what should I back up and how? I assume i shold be backing up my
>> database, my /etc/ directory and the contents of ~/.mythtv. Anything else?
>>
>>
> Backing up in KnoppMyth should backup all you need. From the main menu,
> KnoppMyth > Backup (or sudo mythbackup). This will store what is needed
> in /myth/backup.
>
>
Thanks, I will do that.
> If you want to try something other than KnoppMyth, that is cool!
> Options are a great things. As we've been good to you, be good to us by
> providing details of the issue(s) you had/have so we can fix them.
>
>
> Regards,
>
>
> Cecil
>
Regards to you too and thanks for a great distro.
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