[mythtv-users] Upgrading to 0.23.1

Harry Devine lifter89 at comcast.net
Sun Sep 5 18:20:44 UTC 2010


  On 9/5/2010 11:54 AM, Thomas Mashos wrote:
> On Sun, Sep 5, 2010 at 8:47 AM, Harry Devine <lifter89 at comcast.net 
> <mailto:lifter89 at comcast.net>> wrote:
>
>      On 9/4/2010 8:00 PM, Harry Devine wrote:
>
>          On 9/4/2010 7:49 PM, Greg Oliver wrote:
>
>             On Sat, Sep 4, 2010 at 6:46 PM, Harry
>             Devine<lifter89 at comcast.net <mailto:lifter89 at comcast.net>>
>              wrote:
>
>                 On 9/4/2010 2:48 PM, Thomas Mashos wrote:
>
>                     You might give "aptitude upgrade" a shot instead
>                     of apt-get..  I find
>                     it doesn't "keep back" packages like apt-get does
>                     a lot of times.
>
>                     -Greg
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>                 Apt-get will keep back packages usually when it has to
>                 add new packages, or
>                 dependency issues aren't met.  Do an apt-get -s
>                 dist-upgrade. dist-upgrade
>                 will tell it to install those packages resolving
>                 dependency issues. -s is
>                 simulation, so it only shows you what it would do.
>
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>                 well, I ran "sudo aptitude upgrade" and got the following:
>
>                 hdevine at hdevine-desktop:/etc$ sudo aptitude upgrade
>                 W: The "upgrade" command is deprecated; use
>                 "safe-upgrade" instead.
>                 Reading package lists... Done
>                 Building dependency tree
>                 Reading state information... Done
>                 Reading extended state information
>                 Initializing package states... Done
>                 Writing extended state information... Done
>                 Resolving dependencies...
>                 The following packages have been kept back:
>                   libmyth-0.23-0{a} mythgallery mythmovies mythmusic
>                 mythtv-backend{a}
>                   mythtv-common{a} mythtv-frontend{a}
>                 mythtv-transcode-utils{a} mythvideo
>                   mythweather
>                 The following packages will be REMOVED:
>                   firefox-3.5{u} firefox-3.5-branding{u} libfftw3-3{u}
>                 libmyth-0.22-0{u}
>                   xulrunner-1.9.1{u} xulrunner-1.9.1-gnome-support{u}
>                 0 packages upgraded, 0 newly installed, 6 to remove
>                 and 10 not upgraded.
>                 Need to get 0B of archives. After unpacking 61.7MB
>                 will be freed.
>                 Do you want to continue? [Y/n/?]
>
>
>                 As you can see, it wants to remove some things, but
>                 still says that the myth
>                 packages will not be upgraded.  When I tried "sudo
>                 apt-get -s dist-upgrade",
>                 I got the same result as earlier: no packages added or
>                 removed, and the myth
>                 packages set to not be upgraded.
>
>                 Any ideas?
>                 Harry
>
>             Sounds like somehow your dependencies are messed up from
>             either a
>             dist-upgrade or similar..  I'm pretty new to debian (so
>             apt-get,
>             aptitude as well)..  Not quite sure how to fix it..
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>         I wonder if upgrading to Ubuntu 10.04 will help?  I hadn't
>         done that yet since the main OS was working so well for me.
>
>         Harry
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>     OK, so I upgraded to 10.04 last night and, after dealing with an
>     LIRC issue (stopped working, had to play with it for a bit to fix
>     it), I see that I'm in the same boat.  I'm at the same myth
>     version, and the "sudo aptitude upgrade" doesn't list any myth
>     packages.  As far as Ubuntu is concerned, everything is
>     up-to-date.  Here's what my mythbackend version reports, in case
>     anyone is interested.
>
>     hdevine at hdevine-desktop:/etc/lirc$ mythbackend --version
>     Please attach all output as a file in bug reports.
>     MythTV Version   : 25423
>     MythTV Branch    : branches/release-0-23-fixes
>     Network Protocol : 23056
>     Library API      : 0.23.1.201000710-1
>     QT Version       : 4.5.2
>     Options compiled in:
>      linux debug using_oss using_alsa using_pulse using_jack
>     using_pulseoutput using_backend using_dvb using_firewire
>     using_frontend using_glx_proc_addr_arb using_hdhomerun using_hdpvr
>     using_iptv using_ivtv using_joystick_menu using_libudev using_lirc
>     using_mheg using_opengl_video using_opengl_vsync using_qtdbus
>     using_qtwebkit using_v4l using_x11 using_xrandr using_xv
>     using_xvmc using_xvmc_vld using_xvmcw using_bindings_perl
>     using_bindings_python using_opengl using_vdpau
>     using_ffmpeg_threads using_libavc_5_3 using_live using_mheg
>
>
>     Maybe I need to reinstall mythbuntu-repos?  I did go into the
>     Mythbuntu Control Center and saw that 0.23.1 was selected, so I'm
>     still unsure why the newer 0.23.1 packages aren't being found.
>
>     Thanks,
>     Harry
>
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> You will need to disable/reenable the auto-builds repo in MCC. After a 
> distribution upgrade it gets disabled by the OS. Even though it says 
> it is enabled, it is actually disabled.
>
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OK, I just did that and it worked.  I'm now running version 26057.  
Looks good so far, even though when I bring up the Weather or Movie 
Times, the frontend will die.  I'm not too concerned about that right 
now though.

Thanks for all of the help.
Harry

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