[mythtvnz] Recent OS upgrades

[Stephen Worthington]

On Tue, 13 Sep 2022 21:11:02 +1200, you wrote:

>> I thought that my recent experiences upgrading my Linuxmint desktop and
>> my Ubuntu server might give others confidence to do it themselves.
>>
>
>>
>> *I upgraded Ubuntu Server from 20.04 to 22.04.1 LTS (with only a PHP
>> problem) by*
>>
>> sudo apt update && sudo apt upgrade && sudo apt autoclean && sudo apt
>> autoremove
>>
>> sudo do-release-upgrade
>>
>
>Interesting.  My upgrade is failing as it is trying to remove the package
>mythbuntu-desktop. Anyone else seen this?
>
>2022-09-13 21:08:52,627 DEBUG metapkg 'mythbuntu-desktop' installed but
>marked_delete
>2022-09-13 21:08:52,628 DEBUG none of the '['ubuntu-desktop',
>'kubuntu-desktop', 'xubuntu-core', 'xubuntu-desktop',
>'ubuntustudio-desktop', 'mythbuntu-desktop', 'kubuntu-netbook',
>'lubuntu-desktop', 'ubuntu-gnome-desktop', 'ubuntu-mate-core',
>'ubuntu-mate-desktop', 'ubuntukylin-desktop', 'ubuntu-budgie-desktop']'
>meta-pkgs installed
>2022-09-13 21:08:52,632 DEBUG metapkg 'mythbuntu-desktop' installed but
>marked_delete
>2022-09-13 21:08:52,895 DEBUG denylist expr 'mythbuntu-desktop' matches
>'mythbuntu-desktop'
>2022-09-13 21:08:52,896 DEBUG The package 'mythbuntu-desktop' is marked
>for removal but it's in the removal deny list
>2022-09-13 21:08:52,908 ERROR Dist-upgrade failed: 'The package
>'mythbuntu-desktop' is marked for removal but it is in the removal deny
>list.'

The mythbuntu-desktop package does not exist in Ubuntu 20.04.  It is
probably historical - I suspect that you need to install
xubuntu-desktop so that mythbuntu-desktop can be deleted.  My main
MythTV box and my mother's one look to have that same problem, but I
have not tried upgrading them to 22.04 yet.  The machines I have
upgraded to 22.04 so far (my big server/development PC and my laptop)
both have gnome desktops installed.  The laptop also has xubuntu
desktop installed - I switch it to that when I am using it for MythTV.