[mythtv-users] Installation problems

[Tony Cihak]

I too had problems with apt, and finally bailed on it.  I got the ivtv
driver working by installing the RH 2.4.20-20.9 kernel using the howto
on Red Hat's website.  I then followed the steps for compiling the
driver in the FAQ and everything worked perfectly.

 http://ivtv.sourceforge.net/FAQ.html#_jump09a 



-----Original Message-----
From: mythtv-users-bounces at mythtv.org
[mailto:mythtv-users-bounces at mythtv.org] On Behalf Of Jarod C. Wilson
Sent: Monday, September 29, 2003 1:02 PM
To: Discussion about mythtv
Subject: Re: [mythtv-users] Installation problems

On Monday, Sep 29, 2003, at 12:20 US/Pacific, Shay - MythTV wrote:

>
> You're probably getting this:
>
> 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).
>
> The problem is probably that you didn't install the 2.4.20-20.9 Red 
> Hat kernel.  I'm not that good with linux yet, but I believe that 
> should have been done with the update..  Update should get you to the 
> latest version.


The main problem is actually that apt is being a little bitch. 
Requesting the kernel module (the kmdl part) for a specific kernel 
along with the base package on the same line SHOULD work without a 
problem, but isn't for some reason. The ivtv package has a requirement 
for a kmdl to go with it, which is supposed to be satisfied by 
specifying ivtv-kmdl-$KERNEL on the same line, but for some reason, it 
isn't. Try this for now, and I and/or Axel will try to figure out what 
the hell is going on w/apt...:

# apt-get install ivtv-kmdl-$KERNEL
# apt-get install ivtv

If a kmdl is already installed, I believe ivtv will quit trying to 
install another one (it keeps pulling in the 2.4.20-20.9 kmdl, instead 
of the one you want).

Installing the 2.4.20-20.9 kernel will also shut it up, but shouldn't 
be necessary (stupid apt...).

--Jarod

-- 
Jarod C. Wilson, RHCE

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