Author: Charles Barnwell Date: To: Ram Ramesh, dmo-discussion Subject: Re: Upgrading from 0.31 to 0.33 or later under debian bookworm
On 26/08/2025 14:35, Ram Ramesh wrote: > I want to upgrade front+back end host first. Here is what I plan to do
>
> 1) Make sure bookworm is upto date.
> 2) stop mythtv front and backend. Stop backend service so that it does
> not fire on reboot.
> 3) Change sources.list to proper bookworm deb-multimedia entries
> 4) apt update and apt upgrade
> 5) Reboot to make sure that everything is alive
> 6) run mythtv-setup which probably will do a database upgrade
> 7) start mythtv backend service
> 8) start frontend and check. If everything is ok, repeat steps 3-4 and 8
> on other frontends.
>
> Regards
> Ramesh
>
Hi Ramesh,
I have upgraded mythtv numerous times over the years whenever I've
upgraded my debian version. I don't have a lot of input because
upgrades have always run smoothly and I've never had problems.
However I would say your approach is a good approach. Come back if you
are having problems.
