[mythtv-users] installation failing with apt-get

[Jarod Wilson]

On Sunday, Sep 28, 2003, at 20:42 US/Pacific, Capriotti wrote:

> Hello.
>
> This is going to be one of "those" messages.

You're right on that one.

> I am an old FreeBSD user now starting at the Linux world just because  
> of video. A friend of mine asked me to install and test a mythtv box  
> to evaluate it, and I found the task less than easy to accomplish.

Well...

> After hours and hours searching for documentation - which is easy to  
> find and abundant - I find myself a bit frustrated and needing help.
>
> Let's see what I did and did not, according to
> http://pvrhw.goldfish.org/tiki-page.php?pageName=rh9pvr250

Did and did not do? So you took a step by step guide on how to do it,  
and chose to simply not do parts? What, did you think half the steps  
were put in just for fun? I can understand some of the parts that are  
hardware-specific, but if a guide tells you "install this software" and  
you don't, you can't really complain much when it doesn't work... :)

> KDE ok.
> SQL ok
> Devel for X - not installed
> DEvel for KDE - not installed
> Web server - not needed.

You need some of the dev stuff to build MythTV. Possibly not necessary  
anymore for entirely rpm-based installs, now that I think about it...

>> 6. Get and install apt, update your OS packages
>>
>>
>
> rpm -ivh  
> http://atrpms.physik.fu-berlin.de/dist/rh9/atrpms-kickstart/atrpms- 
> kickstart-9-5.rh9.at.i386.rpm
>
> returns a lot of  conflicts with apt-0.5.5cnc6-1.rh90. I somehow  
> managed to get apt to work, and did a

So you already had a version of apt installed. The atrpms-kickstart  
installs apt also, so of course there were conflicts.

> I skept  apt-get install qt-MySQL
> because I was not sure if I'd be needing it. Left it for latter.

Uh, qt-MySQL is a REQUIREMENT for MythTV. Install it. While you're at  
it, please read through all the official documentation...

> Now to the interesting part. When I try a
>
> apt-get install mythtv-suite
>
> I get
> "mythtv-suite: Depends: mythtv (>= 0.11) but it is not going to be  
> installed"
> for every single mythtv package.

Not good. Axel, any idea what's going on there? I'll take a look myself  
in the morning...

> repository, for, with the other default repositories it does not even  
> find the packages.

That would be because the packages are only in the ATrpms repositories.

> something similar happens to
> apt-get install ivtv-kmdl-$KERNEL ivtv
>
> I really belive that it is some configuration problem with apt, or the  
> lack/conflict with the apt-kickstart pkg. I could go to them and ask,  
> but, since it seems to be more mythtv-content related, I decided  
> asking here first.

Your problem appears to be more apt-related, but both Axel and I lurk  
around this list. I'm not certain yet if the problem is on your end or  
the ATrpms end, but we'll do what we can to straighten it out. At this  
point, my suggestion is to remove whatever apt you have installed, then  
install the atrpms-kickstart and apt-get update && apt-get dist-upgrade  
again. Like I said, I'll look at apt and ATrpms in the morning, if Axel  
hasn't already.

> Can somebody help me ?

We shall try.