[mythtv-users] Ongoing Fedora YUM Dependency Problems

[Andrew Davis]

And for what its worth, I did install twice... the first time I veered 
from Jarrod's guide and had some interesting issues with KDE and such. 
The second time I simply included the packages he said to include and no 
others except for OpenOffice and some text/graphical internet options. 
Everything was smooth after that. What I learned: follow the 
instructions exactly, don't veer from them. Once things are working, 
make a good backup, then change things knowing you can restore. :)

Seth wrote:
> I completely understand your frustration.  After fighting with the 
> mythtv dependency issues in FC4 for too long I tried the upgrade a 
> month ago and it pretty much went to hell. 
>
> Before switching to unbuntu try the clean FC5 install.   I am going to 
> second Andrew on this one.  It took me days to get MythTV with FC4 
> configured properly between my xorg.conf and other things but when I 
> did a fresh install of FC5 and used Jarrod's guide as a guideline 
> everything pretty much just worked.  It even recognized my TV via the 
> S-video out with a simple x.org <http://x.org> reconfig without my 
> changing anything. 
>
> -Seth
>
> On 9/28/06, *Andrew Davis* <andrew at nccomp.com 
> <mailto:andrew at nccomp.com>> wrote:
>
>     Funny, just last weekend I did a clean install of FC5 and
>     installed Myth
>     and other than some issues with my remote (which are resolved
>     now), its
>     99% working and the underlying FC5 is running w/o issue. Perhaps your
>     ranting is about your own installation choices. :)
>
>     Tom Greer wrote:
>     > This email is simply a rant...  but I need to express my
>     frustration,
>     > so I'm begging forgiveness in advance.
>     >
>     > I've been using MythTV for over a year now.  I originally tried to
>     > make it work with SuSE (wasted lots of time there), until I found
>     > Jarod Wilson's wonderful HOW-TO for installing Myth on Fedora
>     Core 4.
>     > (Thank you, Jarod!)  I switched to Fedora and got MythTV
>     installed and
>     > working on 2 machines.
>     >
>     > But over the year, I continually experienced problems when
>     updating or
>     > upgrading via yum.  Over and over again, yum refused to do anything
>     > because of dependency problems.  Each time, I had to invest time and
>     > effort to work around the problem.
>     >
>     > When I was confronted with the problem again this week, I decided to
>     > upgrade to Fedora Core 5.  So I downloaded the DVD ISO, verified
>     the
>     > DVD was good and upgraded the master backend.  After the
>     upgrade, the
>     > system couldn't launch the X server.  So I tried to run "yum
>     > upgrade".  It refused due to a conflict over the boot image.
>     >
>     > So I copied all my recordings to another box and dumped a backup of
>     > mythconverg - and did a clean install of  Fedora Core
>     5.  Immediately
>     > after first boot, I tried "yum upgrade".  Same problem.
>     >
>     > I'm giving up on Fedora.  Hello Ubuntu...
>     >
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