[mythtv-users] MythTV on Xbox, again

[Vladan Bato]

I have written before with my difficulties with installing mythtv on 
Xebian. No matter what repositories I used I couldn't manage to install 
mythtv.

I got some suggestions on this list. Specifically to follow the 
instructions at this page:
<http://www.mythtv-xbox.org/phpBB/viewtopic.php?t=36>
and use the apt sources posted in a reply.

Well, yesterday I finally found the time to try that by doing a Xebian 
1.1.4 install from scratch.

I managed to install mythtv-frontend, but when I try to install 
mythvideo I get a broken packages error (details below).

I browsed the www.mythtv-xbox.org forums and it seems that I'm not alone 
with this problem, and that nobody got beyond installing the frontend.

It all must have worked some time ago, but it doesn't anymore.

The errors are probably due to Xebian using sarge, while the mythtv 
repository uses sid.

What should I do now? Should I do a dist-upgrade? Should I try 
recompiling MythTv (and wait a few days for it to finish)?



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Here are the details. I installed Xebian 1.1.4 from scratch and followed 
the instructions on the above-mentioned page, and used the following 
source.list:

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xbox:~# cat /etc/apt/sources.list
deb ftp://ftp.nerim.net/debian-marillat/ sid main
deb http://dijkstra.csh.rit.edu/~mdz/debian unstable mythtv
deb http://ftp.us.debian.org/debian/ unstable main non-free contrib
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First I installed mythtv-frontend:

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# apt-get install mythtv-frontend
[....]
OK, installs 21 packeges, upgrades 13 (including glibc).
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Then I tried installing mythvideo, and here it fails:

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xbox:~# apt-get install mythvideo
Reading Package Lists... Done
Building Dependency Tree... Done
Some packages could not be installed. This may mean that you have
requested an impossible situation or if you are using the unstable
distribution that some required packages have not yet been created
or been moved out of Incoming.

Since you only requested a single operation it is extremely likely that
the package is simply not installable and a bug report against
that package should be filed.
The following information may help to resolve the situation:

The following packages have unmet dependencies:
   mythvideo: Depends: libqt3c102-mt (>= 3:3.3.4) but it is not installable
E: Broken packages
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Vladan Bato
vbato at ieee.org