[mythtv-users] Mythtv setup total failure - how to start over?

Evil Barney evilbarney at gmail.com
Mon Jun 20 00:41:41 UTC 2005


I personnaly, would do a clean distro install with FC3, then start
over on myth.  I'm not a linux wiz, but I know I can load myth up from
scratch in about 2-3 hours, but I might spend weeks dealing with "left
overs" if I try to uninstall.

-EB

On 6/16/05, Todd Bailey <toddb at toddbailey.net> wrote:
> thanks,
> 
> One needs to read entire man page,
> someone else needs to sort it,
> 
> anyway, once I got to what appeared to be the bottom (alphabetically) I
> assumed that the remove option was the option I needed to remove it from the
> machine, and closed the window.
> 
> 
> 
> 
> 
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "James Stembridge" <jstembridge at gmail.com>
> To: "Discussion about mythtv" <mythtv-users at mythtv.org>
> Sent: Thursday, June 16, 2005 1:59 AM
> Subject: Re: [mythtv-users] Mythtv setup total failure - how to start over?
> 
> 
> On 6/16/05, Todd Bailey <toddb at toddbailey.net> wrote:
> > I did exactly that.  and all the code, configuration files, remained.
> >
> > I was even able to run the front and backend even though apt-get remove
> > ran
> > successfully.
> 
> You need to use "apt-get --purge remove" for the config files to be
> removed. It's a feature rather than a limitation.
> 
> James.
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