[mythtv-users] %5Bmythtv-users%5D%20Problems%20with%20apt-get%20install%20mythtv-suite

Frank Linhares frank at diskshop.ca
Tue Feb 10 20:53:47 EST 2004


There was a problem with lirc being in the bleeding set and not the 
testing set.

run apt-get update again then apt-get mythtv-suite and all should be 
fine.

frank.linhares
frank at diskshop.ca

On 10-Feb-04, at 8:35 PM, el rhino wrote:

> hey all... trying to respond in proper threaded fashion... hope it 
> works.
>
> anyway, I saw Mike Kreitz's post of Feb 9; i'd been having the exact 
> same problem.  extra super frustrating, as i'm a linux n00b yet.  same 
> situation:
> fresh fedora core 1 install following awesome guide at: 
> http://wilsonet.com/mythtv/.  when at step of apt-get install 
> mythtv-suite, the following errors spit out:
>
>
> The following packages have unmet dependencies:
>  mythtv-suite: Depends: mythtv (>= 0.14) but it is
> not going to be installed
>                Depends: mythtv-backend (>= 0.14) but
> it is not going to be installed
>                Depends: mythtv-frontend (>= 0.14) but
> it is not going to be installed
>                Depends: mythmusic (>= 0.14) but it is
> not going to be installed
>                Depends: mythvideo (>= 0.14) but it is
> not going to be installed
>                Depends: mythweb (>= 0.14) but it is
> not going to be installed
> ...
>
> and so on.  what a pain.
> i tried multiple apt-get update && apt-get dist-upgrade to make sure 
> that stuff wasn't tits up, no errors on other packages.
> i think i traced it back to problems with lirc somehow, as that seemed 
> to be the lowest in the mythtv-suite chain that didn't work.  or the 
> first to break.  just a guess, though.
> anyway, i'd followed every step and it still was giving me above 
> errors.
>
> only thing i could think of that i'd done NOT explicit in jarod's 
> instructions was the installation of xine i did, perhaps sometime 
> along the pre-setup of mythtv.  so... way out on a limb here, i 
> removed xine, either through synaptic or rpm -e, don't remember which.
>
> only SMALL difference was that I used 
> kernel-source-2.4.22-1.2166.nptl_35.rhfc1.at.i386.rpm, a small version 
> change than jarod's current web page.
>
> well.... like i say, don't know if it's the answer, but whatever I did 
> finally worked, after a number of rounds of apt-getting and removing 
> xine.  i did have some confict issues after the first error, but those 
> were solved easily enough by removing 2 offending packages.  lirc and 
> xawtv or something similar.
>
>
> SO, maybe that makes sense, maybe not.  but i thought i'd share what 
> little i got.
>
> rhino
>
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