[mythtv-users] Newbie Help with vmlinux and dependencies

[Mikael Magnusson]

On Sun, Sep 14, 2003 at 05:20:15PM -0500, Shay wrote:
> At 04:45 PM 9/14/2003, you wrote:
> >On Sun, Sep 14, 2003 at 03:43:32PM -0500, Shay wrote:
> >> When I do:
> >> apt-get install lirc lirc-kmdl-`uname -r`
> >>
> >> I get:
> >> Reading Package Lists... Done
> >> Building Dependency Tree... Done
> >> You might want to run `apt-get -f install' to correct these:
> >> The following packages have unmet dependencies:
> >>   ivtv-kmdl-2.4.20-20.9: Depends: /boot/vmlinux-2.4.20-20.9
> >> E: Unmet dependencies. Try 'apt-get -f install' with no packages (or
> >> specify a solution).
> >>
> >>
> >> What do I do to fix this?  I'm unfamiliar with dependencies.
> >>
> >
> >Have you installed the kernel-2.4.20-20.9.<your arch>.rpm package, it's
> >required according to the package information of ivtv.
> 
> I'm using Axel Thimm's ATrpms kernel, 2.4.20-20_29.rh9.at.  This is via 
> instructions from Jarod's site.  Everything else has gone ok, except for 
> this.  I did get the kernel though to avoid dependency problems according 
> to Jarod.  I'll try that again.
> 
> -Shay
> 

Shouldn't you install ivtv-kmdl-2.4.20-20_29 package instead, which 
should be compatible with 2.4.20-20_29.rh9.at? Maybe you have both 
ivtv-kmdl-2.4.20-20.9 and ivtv-kmdl-2.4.20-20_29 installed? In such 
case you should remove ivtv-kmdl-2.4.20-20.9.

Mikael