[mythtv-users] Updated MythTV RPMs

[Alex Davidson]

I am getting a Segmentation Fault when I run mythfilldatabase and was
getting dependency errors when I tried to install:
http://atrpms.physik.fu-berlin.de/dist/rh80/at-testing/mythtv/mythtv-0.7-0at
7.i686.rpm
so I went to
http://atrpms.physik.fu-berlin.de/dist/rh80/at-good/apt/
where I downloaded and installed:
http://atrpms.physik.fu-berlin.de/dist/rh80/at-good/apt/apt-0.5.4cnc9-fr1at8
.i686.rpm

I made sure:
rpm http://apt.physik.fu-berlin.de redhat/8.0/en/i386 at
rpm-src http://apt.physik.fu-berlin.de redhat/8.0/en/i386 at
were at the top of /etc/apt/sources.list

Ran apt-get install mythtv

and it says:
Reading Package Lists... Done
Collecting File Providers... Error!
E: Could not open RPM package list file
/var/state/apt/lists/apt.physik.fu-berlin.de_redhat_8.0_en_i386_base_pkglist
.at: (no error)
E: problem opening
/var/state/apt/lists/apt.physik.fu-berlin.de_redhat_8.0_en_i386_base_pkglist
.at
E: The package lists or status file could not be parsed or opened.

Could this be a temporary server problem or something more serious?

Alex

----- Original Message -----
I'm not the person who created the RPMs - Axel Thimm has gone through
the trouble of creating/maintaining them.  I've just updated the RPMs
with a fix for a problem I was having.  That being said, this RPM does
not itself include all the dependencies.  However, there are RPMs for
all the components necessary to run mythtv, so one need not worry about
having to deal with non-RPM tarballs and such.

The easiest way to avoid RPM dependency hell in installing mythtv is to
use apt.  I installed apt4rpm from http://psyche.freshrpms.net.  Using
apt configured with the appropriate RPM repositories, one should be able
to install mythtv by simply issuing the command 'apt-get install
mythtv'.

Refer to this page for instructions:
http://atrpms.physik.fu-berlin.de/