ubuntu and mythtv

Bob Nielsen nielsen at oz.net
Fri May 20 16:56:19 UTC 2005


On Fri, 2005-05-20 at 01:53 -0500, Rich Duzenbury wrote:
> On Fri, 2005-05-20 at 07:38 +0200, Vincent Trouilliez wrote:
> > > In any case, where should I go from here?  I suppose I could just wait
> > > awhile and hope that the 0.18.1 will appear in synaptic, though a
> > > pointer to some kind of timeline would be helpful.
> > 
> > Don't hold your breath. Hoary has been released, it's "stable", this
> > means that no new packages will ever be added to it, other than major
> > bug/security fixes. 
> > So you if you want sometihng that is not in the Synaptic, you must
> > either install it yourself, or wait for the next version of Ubuntu to be
> > released, in october, which should include the latest version of
> > everything...
> > 
> > > I suppose I could try installing from source.  I don't want to corrupt
> > > my installation, however as I wish to continue to use synaptic to
> > > maintain it.
> > 
> > In synaptic, in stall the "checkinstall" package. Then, when you compile
> > your program, do the "./configure", "make", but instead of "make
> > install", do a "sudo checkinstall". This will integrate the program
> > perfectly into the system/Synaptic.
> > 
> > 
> Thanks for the tip.  Perhaps I should install breezy on the box?  Would
> that do it?

Breezy currently has version 0.17-3 of mythtv, so that won't be an
immediate solution for you.






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