[SOLVED] install of mytht light v30 - unmet dependencies

[martynbottomley]

I have upgraded my mythtv backend from v29 to v30

I am unable to upgrade my Rasperry Pi3 remote frontend following instructions at https://www.mythtv.org/wiki/MythTV_Light

I have edited /etc/apt/sources.list to include deb http://dl.bintray.com/bennettpeter/deb/ buster myth30 Is this the correct entry?

but when I run:-
sudo apt-get install mythtv-light

I get the following message:-

Some packages could not be installed. This may mean that you have
requested an impossible situation or if you are using the unstable
distribution that some required packages have not yet been created
or been moved out of Incoming.
The following information may help to resolve the situation:

The following packages have unmet dependencies:
mythtv-light : Depends: libtag1v5 but it is not installable
Depends: libexiv2-14 but it is not installable
Depends: python-future but it is not installable
Depends: python-requests-cache but it is not installable
E: Unable to correct problems, you have held broken packages.

Can anyone advise how to overcome this problem (with simple instructions)?

[MikeB2013]

The entry deb http://dl.bintray.com/bennettpeter/deb/ buster myth30 is correct IF you are running Raspbian Buster on your Pi 3 and
you have also run the command

wget -O - https://bintray.com/user/downloadSubjec ... me=bintray | sudo apt-key add -

You can check Raspbian release in a terminal session by running "lsb_release -a" command e.g.

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pi@raspberrypi:~ $ lsb_release -a
No LSB modules are available.
Distributor ID:	Raspbian
Description:	Raspbian GNU/Linux 10 (buster)
Release:	10
Codename:	buster

Raspbian Buster was released in July 2019, so if you installed Raspbian on your Pi 3 before this then you probably have Raspbian Stretch if you have Raspbian Jessie you need to update your Pi 3, a clean install of Raspbian Buster is my recommendation.

If your Pi 3 is running Raspbian Stretch you need deb http://dl.bintray.com/bennettpeter/deb/ stretch myth30

If you run sudo apt update on Raspbian Buster you should see something like:

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pi@raspberrypi:~ $ sudo apt update
Hit:1 http://archive.raspberrypi.org/debian buster InRelease
Hit:2 http://raspbian.raspberrypi.org/raspbian buster InRelease        
Ign:3 http://dl.bintray.com/bennettpeter/deb buster InRelease          
Get:4 http://dl.bintray.com/bennettpeter/deb buster Release [2,745 B]
Fetched 2,745 B in 2s (1,508 B/s)  
Reading package lists... Done
Building dependency tree       
Reading state information... Done
All packages are up to date.

Note I have checked mythtv-light from deb http://dl.bintray.com/bennettpeter/deb/ buster myth30 and it works on both my Pi 3 and Pi4.

Mike

[martynbottomley]

thank you for your reply

I will update my system software to buster and report back

[martynbottomley]

Hi, My previous system software was Jessie, so I have had a clean start and loaded buster as per your recommendation

Mythtv light v30 now loads and runs fine for my system

Thank you again for your assistance