[mythtv] My RedHat 8 Setup VS. Docs

Cedar McKay mythtv-dev@snowman.net
Sun, 8 Dec 2002 03:11:18 -0800


you might try the HOWTO at http://mythtv.org/docs/


Cedar



On Sunday, December 8, 2002, at 02:17  AM, Andrew De Ponte wrote:

> K, I forked out the bucks and got a machine for MythTV. It an Athlon 
> 2100
> with a 160 GB harddrive and 512 meg of ram DDR 2100. I installed red 
> hat 8.0
> off the bat because someone had just posted a success and a howto on 
> it.
> I got all the pre reqs installed I think because I followed the howto. 
> The
> problem is this when I do the configure first thing off the bat for
> libavcodec everything looks fine, but when i run make after that I get:
>
> [adeponte@myth mythtv-0.7]$ make
> make: *** No rule to make target `/mkspecs/linux-g++/qmake.conf', 
> needed by `Makefile'.  Stop.
>
> Please help me. Where do I get qmake. What package do I have to get and
> install on redhat 8.0 to get qmake installed? Please help!!
>
> On (12/03/02 16:58), Nathan Langley wrote:
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>> Here are the instructions as promised.  I went a diff way for the 
>> setup
>> (probably because I did not read the docs)
>>
>> Section 2.1.2
>>   I did not use the RedHat package manager to do this.  I did not 
>> install KDE or
>> KDE software Develop.  This is what I did.
>>
>> MYSQL:  # must be root -- use su - to get a root shell
>>    up2date --solvedeps mysql
>>    up2date --solvedeps mysql-server
>>
>> QT:
>>    up2date --solvedeps qt
>>    up2date --solvedeps qt-MySQL  # Case Sensitive
>>
>> This will download and install all the necessary packages for QT and 
>> MYSQL
>> If you dont have internet access I cant help you and you are probably 
>> not
>> reading this anyway.
>>
>> Section 4.1.2
>>   RedHat sets up all the QT Env. Variables correctly when you run 
>> up2date.  All
>> you should have to do now is run /sbin/ldconfig as root (su -)
>>
>> Section 5.3
>>   I had one bitch of a time setting this up.  All I had to do was run 
>> export
>> LANG=C before I ran perl Makefile.PL.  That cleared it up.  I did use 
>> CPAN to
>> install all the modules.  The XML::Twig that comes from RedHat seemed 
>> to be
>> broken so I reinstalled it with the Perl CPAN Module too.
>>
>> Section 7.1.2
>>   Ok I had some serious problems with the sound at first.  RedHat 
>> seems to set
>> up the SBLive line in incorrectly and makes it a gain channel.  Dont 
>> know why
>> this is and got tired of fucking with it so I just put in my Ensoniq 
>> Audio Pci
>> and it worked great.  Good luck if you have a Sound Blaster Live.  I 
>> did not us
>> Alaa for either I was using the default OSS stuff RedHat provides.
>>
>> If you want to include any of this in the DOCS feel free too.  You 
>> can put my
>> email address in there and I will answer peoples questions.  I have 
>> also got
>> MythTv working on Slackware 8.0 if you want a write up for the DOCS I 
>> can give
>> you one but I will need some time.  It was a BITCH to get working in 
>> Slack.
>>
>>
>>
>>
>> -- 
>> Nathan Langley
>> Linux > BSD > MacOS > DOS > Windows
>>
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