[mythtv-users] installation failing with apt-get

[Kevin Flanagan]

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http://www.catb.org/~esr/faqs/smart-questions.html


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On Mon, 2003-09-29 at 08:18, Capriotti wrote:
> At 03:14 AM 9/29/2003, you wrote:
> >On Sunday, Sep 28, 2003, at 20:42 US/Pacific, Capriotti wrote:
> >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... :)
> 
> As I explained in another - private - email, I apologize for this. I never 
> meant to say that the instructions were not working, and I really can't 
> claim "this does not work" if I don't follow the instructions. Ture.
> 
> Anyway, I was simply trying to get the packages installed and that's what 
> brought me to the list. I was trying to give an idea of the environment I 
> had, with as much information about my system as I found to be pertinent.
> 
> I suspected I had a problem with apt and will try something in that direction.
> 
> 
> One thing that I forgot to mention: the very last line after the
> atp-get install mythtv-suite
> reads:
> 
> E: Broken packges
> 
> But I think you already know that.
> 
> On another note, I was fiddling with synaptic and found the mythtv-suite 
> option to be present there. Trying to add it generated several "strange 
> things are going on in the world" messages on the console. Yet, it 
> installed a bunch of things (codecs, mplayer, skins, infrared remote 
> control, etc), but never mentioned one single package about mythtv.
> 
> Finished the installation of this support stuff, I went back to synaptic 
> and checked for the mythtv-suite again, and it was not installed. Under the 
> dependencies tab, all of the mythtv modules were red (indicating broken 
> packages) and the last 3 in black. mysql-server, mysql (both from the 
> original RH9 install) and atrpms.
> 
> I really think  there is something wrong with the repositories.
> 
> []s
> 
> 
> 
> 
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