Thanks for the `man apt-get`.
I thought that the file /usr/share/mythtv/mythtv-setup.sh was an Ubuntu wrapper
and therefore any reliance on something removed from Ubuntu was "a bit silly".
That file is actually part of Mythtv, so it is an upstream thing. It has had a
major rewrite months ago.
Hi @0123peter
The `apt source` command I used is documented in `man apt-get`, ie.
"source causes apt-get to fetch source packages. APT will examine the available
packages to decide which source package to fetch. It will then find and
download into the current directory the newest available vers
Tickets for this should probably be forwarded upstream, hopefully with a
patch. As it stands now, there aren't much eyes on this package and I don't
have a way to test this anymore as I don't use MythTV nor Ubuntu.
On Thu, Oct 31, 2019 at 4:55 PM Peter D. <1850...@bugs.launchpad.net>
wrote:
> Sor
Sorry if I got a bit excited.
On a fresh install of Xubuntu, Mythtv backend setup does not work.
If it worked, then when it was first run it would add the user to the
group "mythtv", something that requires root access. My guess is that
long ago a pop up box would prompt the user for their passw
I `sudo apt source mythtv` (20.04) and ...
guiverc@d960-ubu2:~/mythtv-30.0+fixes.20190817.5cde0578d8$ fgrep -r gksu
debian/changelog: * debian/control: Add zenity | kdebase-bin, gksu |
kdebase-bin
debian/changelog.in: * debian/control: Add zenity | kdebase-bin, gksu |
kdebase-bin
debian/dial
Some of the call to gksu are in
/usr/share/mythtv/dialogue_functions.sh
along with a warning that you need gksu or kdesu to run mythtv-frontend.
Kdesu seems inappropriate, since I am not running KDE, also apt-get fails to
install it (kdesu).
--
You received this bug notification because you ar
Mythtv does not work because it calls gksu (and other reasons).
Running Mythtv backend setup does nothing.
The fix will include replacing calls to gksu with something modern,
perhaps pkexec. I will leave that to the programmers.
Grepping the source code for depreciated functions is probably a
Maybe it is XFCE that is setting $SU_TYPE to a depreciated function, but
then lots of things would be broken not just Mythtv. I have not found
the file to be patched.
--
You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu
Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu.
https://bugs.launch
Thank you for taking the time to report this bug and helping to make
Ubuntu better.
Sorry, I don't understand what your issue is, but you've made reference
to `gksu` which has been depreciated in Debian & Ubuntu.
`gksu` was last available in Ubuntu 17.10, and shouldn't be locatable
for any releas
