[mythtv-users] [~OT] yum mythtv dependency problems?

[Axel Thimm]

On Thu, Jan 12, 2006 at 06:32:58PM -0500, Chris Ribe wrote:
> I ran into this.  I searched the atrpms list archive and found a few
> instances of this problem.  The reply from Axel, the maintainer of atrpms,
> in all cases was along the lines of, "Go screw. I don't support yum.  Use
> smart instead."

Please don't misquote. The failure is not because I decided to not
support yum, but because yum is simply broken.

http://bugzilla.atrpms.net/show_bug.cgi?id=699

Since smart and apt are working alternatives, use these. Yum is
supported in the sense that metadata for it are built. But it is not
the recommended depsolver and I won't go hunting yum bugs anymore.

> Thankfully, "yum install smart" was enough to install smart (presumably
> another package manager).  Unfortunately, I was never able to get smart to
> install mythtv, either.

smart update
smart upgrade


> Eventually, I got mythtv installed by doing something along the lines of
> "yum install mythtv" and "yum install mythtv-frontend."  I think I threw a
> "yum install libmyth-0.18.1.so.0" in there at some point, but I can't say if
> it was necessary.
> 
> On 1/12/06, Dan Adams <dan at ifactory.com> wrote:
> >
> > hey, when I try to do a yum update I get the following at the end:
> >
> > Error: Missing Dependency: libmyth-0.18.1.so.0 is needed by package
> > mythbrowser
> > Error: Missing Dependency: libmyth-0.18.1.so.0 is needed by package
> > mythdvd
> >
> > mythlib is right at /usr/lib/libmyth-0.18.1.so.0. anyone else run into
> > this? whats the deal?
> >
> >
> > Dan Adams
> > CS MS WPI '05
> >
> >
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