[mythtv-users] Debian plugins

[Rodney D. Myers]

On Fri, 21 Oct 2005 12:41:38 -0400
James Grant <topace at lightbox.org> wrote:

> Cool I guess I'll give the tarball a try later.... i hate mixing debs
> and tarballs on the same system..... maybe ill try to build new debs
> from the tarballs :)
> 
> I'm still waiting for my PVR-350 to be delivered (damn canada post
> taking their time), so I've got lots of time to 'play' before i can
> actually start watching / recording anything.
> 
> If anyone (in canada) is interested, www.koonline.ca has the 350 on
> sale for $189.99CAD
> 
> James
> 
> On Friday 21 October 2005 12:27 pm, Dave Sherohman wrote:
> > On Fri, Oct 21, 2005 at 12:16:18PM -0400, James Grant wrote:
> > > Hey does anyone use the debian packages from:
> > > 	http://dijkstra.csh.rit.edu/~mdz/debian/dists/unstable/mythtv   ?
> > >
> > > The 'core' components installed fine, but it looks like all the
> > > 'plugins' are out of date (mythvideo, mythmusic, etc).. all the
> > > dependencies are broken for them :(
> > >
> > > eg) its looking for  libqt3c102-mt  instead of libqt3-mt
> > > mythmusic has other dependency issues as well, like, its looking
> > > for libflac6 when it should be looking for libflac7
> > >
> > > anyone know anything about this?
> >
> > That's odd...  I got my mythtv debs from dijkstra, but apt-cache
> > said there weren't any plugins available, so I just downloaded the
> > tarball from mythtv.org and that worked fine[1] for me, although I
> > did have to manually apt-get install apache, PHP, etc., of course.
> >
> >
> > [1]  Well, mostly fine...  See my next post for info about the big
> > problem I hit, but it doesn't look to be anything related to Debian
> > or dependencies.

If you are running debian, or any distro, look at a program called
checkinstall. It wan take a tar ball, and create deb's for your system.
The you can easily remove them later.

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