Using the Latest MythTV Release

The Mythbuntu team provides a package (mythbuntu-repos) that provides a set of repositories which can be easily activated to update the software shipped with Mythbuntu to later versions and/or install additonal packages. The packaging used for the builds in these repositories is identical to that used for content in the Ubuntu archive so the use of these repositories is seamless.

The repository installed by the mythbuntu-repos package contains updates to MythTV that are automatically built each day when there are upstream fixes available. The repository also contains fixes for software written specifically for Mythbuntu such as Mythbuntu Bare, Mythexport and Mythbuntu Log Grabber.

Once the package is installed, you can control how it is deployed from the Mythbuntu Control Center. From the MCC, you can select the MythTV series that you wish to receive updates for, enable or disable updates to the Mythbuntu-specific applicatons, or even disable the use of the repository altogether, if you no longer desire to make use of it in the future.

You typically would use the repository installed by the mythbuntu-repos package if you want to install and keep up to date with a later version of MythTV than the one shipped with your version of Mythbuntu (e.g. on Mythbuntu 10.10, you wish to use MythTV 0.24), if you want to test the development version of MythTV, or if you want to upgrade to a Beta version of MythTV but not keep up with any of the later development updates.

Selecting a MythTV series from the Mythbuntu Control Center will only get you updates for that series. So, for example, if you select MythTV 0.24, you will only receive updates that upstream releases to the 0.24 series. To change to another series (such as 0.25), simply open the Mythbuntu Control Centre again, and modify the Repositories tab to the new series.

To begin, you can install the mythbuntu-repos package from the browser, on the system where it is to be installed, by surfing over to:

     http://www.mythbuntu.org/auto-builds

Once you get to that page, follow the "Install the Mythbuntu-repos package" link. After you've done that, you need to run the software updater (from the desktop/system menu) to install all of the updates that are implied by the series of MythTV that you choose during the install.

Alternately, you can do the following from the command line (in a temporary directory):

     su
     wget http://www.mythbuntu.org/files/mythbuntu-repos.deb
     dpkg -i mythbuntu-repos.deb
     apt-get update
     apt-get upgrade

In this case, when you install the repository, you'll choose the MythTV series that you want installed on your system and then, when you run the upgrade, you'll be upgraded to that series.

At a later date, you can proceed to the Mythbuntu Control Center and select a different series. If you do so, be sure to run the software updater (from the desktop/system menu) to install all of the updates that are implied by the new series of MythTV that you choose.