[mythtv-users] MythTV partial upgrade

[Michael Watson]

On 14/05/2012 12:01 PM, Igor Cicimov wrote:
>
> On Mon, May 14, 2012 at 11:41 AM, Michael Watson 
> <michael at thewatsonfamily.id.au <mailto:michael at thewatsonfamily.id.au>> 
> wrote:
>
>     On 14/05/2012 11:22 AM, Igor Cicimov wrote:
>
>         Hi all,
>
>         I'm on Mythbuntu 10.04 and MythTV 0.23.1-fixes and last night
>         I wanted to upgrade to MythTV 0.24. So I enabled the 0.24
>         repository in MythTV CC and launched the Update manager. But I
>         got a "Partial upgrade" option only so I decided to revert
>         back to 0.23.1 repos.
>
>         I wonder what this "Partial upgrade" means and is this going
>         to brake my MythTV? How do you proceed after it? Do I get an
>         option for full upgrade afterwards? Looks to me like a
>         conflict between Mythbuntu and MythTV repositories or
>         something. How can I fix this without braking my system?
>
>         Thanks for any help.
>         Igor
>
>     I have found that the ubuntu update-manager does not do well with
>     major upgrades.  I found it more reliable (works) if you execute
>
>     *sudo apt-get update; sudo apt-get dist-upgrade*
>
>     from a command prompt, after enabling the 0.24 repository
>
>
> Hmmm isn't that going to upgrade the whole distribution? I'm always 
> running LTS I would like to stay on 10.04 except if there is some 
> really strong reason to upgrade to 11.04.
>
> Thanks,
> Igor
>
No to upgrade distribution using apt-get, you first need to edit the 
sources.list to those of the new distribution.
See: http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=1327424

Regards
Michael