[mythtv-users] upgrading MythTV from RPM to CVS version

[Mike]

Micah Wedemeyer wrote:

>I just got myth installed on my Epia box following Jarod's guide.  However,
>I'm not using hardware MPEG-2 acceleration yet.
>
>I read that the newest CVS version of myth has support for the xvmc decoder
>written by the Unichrome project.  So, if I can get xvmc working on my
>machine, I would definitely like to use it with myth.
>
>To my question:  How can I go from the RPM version of mythtv to the CVS
>version?  I've compiled other programs from tarballs before, so that's not too
>scary, but I am a little worried about overwriting the RPM version or possibly
>messing up the RPM database.
>
>Do I uninstall the RPM first, then install the CVS version?  How do I
>uninstall an RPM?
>
>Any suggestions would be welcome!
>
>Micah
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There is a "work in progress" page on doing just this that I have 
referenced with success (Watching the results as I type!) at the 
mythtv.info site.  The URL is:  
http://mythtv.info/moin.cgi/UpgradeToCvsHowTo

Hope this is useful to you as well.

DruidFyr
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