[mythtv-users] Upgrading to 0.21-fixes on Ubuntu 7.10?

Mike Dent mcdent at gmail.com
Thu Aug 28 14:51:27 UTC 2008


2008/8/27 Marc Randolph <mrand at pobox.com>:
> On Tue, Aug 26, 2008 at 2:06 PM, Mike Dent <mcdent at gmail.com> wrote:
>> Hi, what is my best way to upgrade from  0.21.0-0ubuntu1~gutsy1 to 0.21
>> fixes on Ubuntu 7.10 ?
>> Are there some kind of packages upgrade I can use?
>
> Hopefully Mario or one of the other maintainers will speak up and say
> if there is an easy way to get the weekly fixes on a 7.10 system.

Thanks for your reply, nothing back from anybody else so far though.


>
>> I see there is an option in mythubuntu to do some kind of upgrade on an existing
>> Ubuntu box, I'm wondering if this will trash my existing myth system running on this box, or
>> perhaps there is a safer way?
>
> I guess this is referring to the option of doing an upgrade to 8.04?
> Quite a large number of people in the world have successfully upgraded
> to 8.04 - but some people have run into non-trival regressions.  Many
> have been addressed since the initial release though.  You could try
> googling each piece of your hardware to see if people have had trouble
> with it/them on 8.04.

Does that mean if I upgraded to 8.04 that the fixes packages are
readily available then?

I saw some mention of an upgrade of an existing Ubuntu + myth setup ->
mythbuntu?
Is this possible whilst preserving my existing myth config, database etc?

Thanks
Mike


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>   Marc
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