[mythtv-users] Re: Ping Jarod. A Clue?

[Axel Thimm]

On Tue, Dec 23, 2003 at 02:50:27PM -0500, Joseph A. Caputo wrote:
> On Tuesday 23 December 2003 14:27, Michale wrote:
> > Hay,
> >
> > I think I might be on to something here.
> >
> > Looking at the GOSSAMER Archives, I came across this thread that you
> > were part of:
> >
> > http://www.gossamer-threads.com/archive/MythTV_C2/Users_F11/ivtv_fail
> >ure_on_modprobe,_i2c_error_on_boot,_RH9_machine_P83888/
> >
> > In it you said,
> >
> > "What output do you get from "rpm -q ivtv-kmdl-2.4.20-20.9"? I'm
> > wondering which ivtv you're running. If it is the older one, I think
> > you may have to manually download the base ivtv package (
> > http://atrpms.physik.fu-berlin.de/dist/rh9/ivtv/ ) and install by
> > hand."
> >
> > Now, I did the "rpm -q" and this is what I got:
> >
> > [root at myth root]# rpm -q ivtv-kmdl-2.4.20-20.9
> > package ivtv-kmdl-2.4.20-20.9 is not installed
> >
> >
> > Now... Thinking that, since I am running kernel 2.4.20-24_31, I
> > modified the above:
> >
> > [root at myth root]# rpm -q ivtv-kmdl-2.4.24-31.9
> > package ivtv-kmdl-2.4.24-31.9 is not installed
> >
> >
> > So, then I went to SYNAPTIC and looked up my ivtv info it says that
> > one of ivtv's dependencies is ivtv-kmdl-smp-2.4.20-24_31.rh9.at.  But
> > synaptic says that the dependency is satisfied.
> >
> > To quote Tom Cruise...  "Now, I don't know what all that means, but
> > it sounds pretty bad."
> 
> 
> Try 'rpm -q ivtv-kmdl'.  Generally, you leave off the version numbers 
> when querying RPM packages.

These are no version numbers ;)

Try

	rpm -qa 'ivtv-kmdl-*'

instead.

> -JAC
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Axel.Thimm at physik.fu-berlin.de