[mythtv-users] Help - reinstalling mythtv FC2_x86_64 from ATrpms fails

Brad Fuller bradallenfuller at yahoo.com
Fri Oct 8 05:05:45 UTC 2004



Jarod Wilson wrote:

> On Oct 7, 2004, at 17:41, Brad Fuller wrote:
>
>> I need help, and it's probably pretty darn easy but I can't figure it 
>> out.
>>
>>  I've recently built mythtv from source on an AMD64 system and it 
>> worked (after John, Michael and Axel helped me with ivtv)
>>
>>  I deleted all occurances of mythtv to and removed any in the RPM dB 
>> (from before) to start over.
>>
>>  I then yum'd mythtv from the AT stable repos. No problem.
>>  It reported that it downloaded the packages and completed the test 
>> transaction.
>>  yum then installed mythtv 0.16080.rhfc2.at.x86_64 sucessfully.
>>
>>  However, any attempt to run mythtvsetup fails. mythbackend and 
>> mythfrontend fails as well.
>>   
>>  when I locate mythtvsetup  it's only found in the yum cache.
>>
>>  What am I doing wrong ?     this is not a test ;-0
>>
>>  If it "installed" successfully, why can't I see mythtvsetup
>
>
> There are quite a few components that comprise the entire MythTV 
> experience as packaged by ATrpms. The package "mythtv" is just one of 
> them. Try yum install mythtv-suite, which is a dummy package that 
> pulls in all the other components as dependencies. (The backend, 
> frontend and setup are all independent packages.)

Hi Jarod,

If you recall, mythtv-suite is not complete for 64_bit. So, that's why 
I'm only installing mythtv. Shouldn't I be able to install just mythtv?


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