Re: [PLUG] MythTV Seminar on Saturday 2007-09-22

[JP Vossen <jp@jpsdomain.org>]

> Date: Mon, 24 Sep 2007 13:36:02 -0400
> From: TuskenTower <tuskentower@gmail.com>
> Subject: Re: [PLUG] MythTV Seminar on Saturday 2007-09-22
>
> If you are using Ubuntu 7.04 (Fiesty Fawn) like me and are planning to
> install MythTV with the default install (meaning you don't touch your
> sources list), it won't work.  There is a bit of history about this,
> the XML grabber application goes to Zap2it labs servers which are no
> longer present.  You need to update MythTV to target Schedules Direct
> ($20/yr) servers.
>
> There is a post somewhere in the ubuntu forums about fixing this.
> I'll send that link when I get home (its still open on my Linux box).
>
> If you are using ubuntu 7.10 then you shouldn't have any problems.

Oh good point.  I'd hope they'd back-port the patch for that...

Note: http://www.mythbuntu.org/downloads
	"The Mythbuntu team opted to track the Gutsy archive instead during 
June. The 7.04 release has hence been skipped, and the rest of the 
development will track the 7.10 (Gutsy) archive.
	"Mythbuntu 7.10 has not yet been released, but an alpha ISO image is 
available on our website here:"

Related, does anyone know if you can mix and match Myth FE and BE 
versions?  I'll just use Mythbuntu for my back-end, so I won't have this 
problem, but I'll probably want to put the front-end on some 
pre-existing 6.04 LTS and 7.04 machines.  Yes, I'll eventually upgrade 
them, but maybe some not until 8.04 LTS, so in the meantime can I use a
Mythbuntu back-end server (i.e. 7.10) with whatever front-end is in the 
6.04 or 7.04 repos?

Two quick asides:
1) I'm updating http://www.jpsdomain.org/jp/mythtv.txt, maybe once a day 
or so, for anyone keeping track, though there will be a gap while I wait 
for H/W to show up.
2) Unless I hear back from anyone with better H/W ideas or prices, I'll 
go order that stuff I proposed tonight or tomorrow.

Later,
JP
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