How to downgrade .22 to .21 on Karmic

[lingenfr]

Due to some driver incompatibilities, etc I have upgraded two of my laptops to Karmic (9.10). Unfortunately, it comes with mythtv-frontend .22 which is incompatible with my .21 backend. Several of my frontends are xbox/xbmc/xbmcmythtv which have not been updated yet, so I don't want to upgrade my backend until they are. So, I am looking for the best way to downgrade mythtv-frontend to .21 without hosing my laptops. Thanks.

[azmyth]

May look at the avenard repo.

http://www.avenard.org/media/Ubuntu_Repository/Ubuntu_Repository.html

Other than that, you may have to compile.

[lingenfr]

Not a good idea. I added his repositories and tried to force version and ended up with broken packages that took a bit to unscrew. Thanks for trying though.

[dakota34]

I was able to grab the .21 debs from the jaunty packages (http://packages.ubunut.com/jaunty/graphics/)and isntall on a clean install of karmic without issue -- gdebi will give you an error messages listing the additional packages it needs, which you can grab from the same site -- so you may be be able to simply remove the .22 myth frontend and install the the 21 debs... then you should use the 'lock version' feature in Synaptic to prevent further upgrades - be careful not do do partial upgrades as they will, it looks like, upgrade even the locked versions ...

[lingenfr]

Thanks. Your solution tided me over. I upgraded to Karmic on all of my boxes today. My xbox was the one I was holding on. Still have to test it, but someone is working on the .22 protocol so hopefully it will work. The upgrade was painful.

[muddysmind]

I was able to grab the .21 debs from the jaunty packages (http://packages.ubunut.com/jaunty/graphics/)and isntall on a clean install of karmic without issue -- gdebi will give you an error messages listing the additional packages it needs, which you can grab from the same site -- so you may be be able to simply remove the .22 myth frontend and install the the 21 debs... then you should use the 'lock version' feature in Synaptic to prevent further upgrades - be careful not do do partial upgrades as they will, it looks like, upgrade even the locked versions ...

how did you install it?

got it, gdebi-gtk and grabbed the .deb files from https://launchpad.net/ubuntu

[psmbfuer]

I ran into the same problem. Thanks to the input above, it was fairly straight forward. So hopefully this helps saves others a bit of time.

I have a separate backend and only needed to downgrade the frontend, so I went into Synaptic on the frontend and removed all of the “mythtv” packages. Be careful and note that I only did “Mark for Removal” not “Mark for Complete Removal” as I believe this would have also removed various configuration files that would have necessitated me entirely reconfiguring the frontend after installation. If someone can refute or confirm this, please do. So you can check, here are the files that were then removed.
libmyth-0.22-0 will be removed

libmyth-python will be removed

mythbuntu-common will be removed

mythbuntu-control-centre will be removed

mythbuntu-log-grabber will be removed

mythmovies will be removed

mythtv-common will be removedlibmyth-0.22-0 will be removed

libmyth-python will be removed

mythbuntu-common will be removed

mythbuntu-control-centre will be removed

mythbuntu-log-grabber will be removed

mythmovies will be removed

mythtv-common will be removed

mythtv-frontend will be removed

mythtv-theme-iulius-osd will be removed

mythtv-theme-mythbuntu will be removed

mythtv-theme-retro-osd will be removed

mythtv-theme-titivillus-osd will be removed

mythvideo will be removed

mythweather will be removed

mythtv-frontend will be removed

mythtv-theme-iulius-osd will be removed

mythtv-theme-mythbuntu will be removed

mythtv-theme-retro-osd will be removed

mythtv-theme-titivillus-osd will be removed

mythvideo will be removed

mythweather will be removed


The packages that are needed include the following. These packages are for 32 bit x386 and although some are the same for 64 bit, not all are, if memory serves. You also need to add these pachages in the following order due to dependencies:


libraw1394-8_1.3.0-4ubuntu1_i386.deb
libmyth-0.21-0_0.21.0+fixes19961-0ubuntu8_i386.deb
mythtv-common_0.21.0+fixes19961-0ubuntu8_all.deb
mythtv-frontend_0.21.0+fixes19961-0ubuntu8_i386.deb


I then started myth-frontend and most of the old configuration was still there and it started up and started streaming TV and recordings from the backend, although with the default theme.

[dscheste]

I ran into the same problem. Thanks to the input above, it was fairly straight forward. So hopefully this helps saves others a bit of time.
...........


libraw1394-8_1.3.0-4ubuntu1_i386.deb
libmyth-0.21-0_0.21.0+fixes19961-0ubuntu8_i386.deb
mythtv-common_0.21.0+fixes19961-0ubuntu8_all.deb
mythtv-frontend_0.21.0+fixes19961-0ubuntu8_i386.deb


I then started myth-frontend and most of the old configuration was still there and it started up and started streaming TV and recordings from the backend, although with the default theme.

Thank you psmbfuer, it worked.