[mythtv-users] RHEL 5

[George Galt]

On Tue, Apr 29, 2008 at 7:03 PM, RPorterMail <rportermail at comcast.net> wrote:
>  Hi George.
>
> I've been down that road.  I followed the instructions on wilsonet.com up to
> the point of "getting and installing mythtv"
>
> This is what I get
>
>
> I execute.
> yum -y install mythtv-suite
>
> I get this:
> Loading "installonlyn" plugin
> Loading "rhnplugin" plugin
> Setting up Install Process
> Setting up repositories
> http://dl.atrpms.net/fc5Server-i386/...ta/repomd.xml: [Errno 14] HTTP Error
> 404: Not Found
> Trying other mirror.
> Error: Cannot open/read repomd.xml file for repository: atrpms
>
>
> so, i go to atrpms and there is no fc5server-i386. Now what do I do?
>
> if i do
>
> yum -y list available i also get
>
> Loading "installonlyn" plugin
> Loading "rhnplugin" plugin
> Setting up repositories
> http://dl.atrpms.net/fc5Server-i386/...ta/repomd.xml: [Errno 14] HTTP Error
> 404: Not Found
> Trying other mirror.
> Error: Cannot open/read repomd.xml file for repository: atrpms
>
> I'm running RHEL 5.1 clean from the install. I used yum update to get
> current and that worked fine.
>
> Seems like I'm trying to update a RHEL 5 systems with Fedora Core 5 and
> thats not happening.  I guess I don't understand the need to added systems
> apps when all I want is his mythtv app.
>
>
>
> On Apr 28, 2008, at 4:15 PM, George Galt wrote:
>
> On Mon, Apr 28, 2008 at 5:05 PM, RPorterMail <rportermail at comcast.net>
> wrote:
> Has anyone installed mythtv on RHEL 5?
>
>  I'm just starting out and a bit confused
>
>  thanks in advance
>
>  rp
>
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> I've installed it on CentOS 5.1 (both x86_64 and 32-bit) without
> significant difficulty, so it should work on RHEL 5.  Follow the
> instructions on http://wilsonet.com/ for Fedora Core 6 and use the
> rpms at http://www.atrpms.net/.  There are several dependencies that
> require enabling the "testing" version of atrpms, and I believe there
> was one file I had to dig up off of Dag Weirs site, but the
> dependencies are obvious from the output from yum.  If you get lost,
> post your questions.
>
> George
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As Nick pointed out, you should follow the instructions for installing
atrpms at http://www.atrpms.net/install.html.  You will want to
install the atrpms-package-config rpm.  You can find the correct one
for your architecture (i386 or x86_64) here:
http://www.atrpms.net/dist/el5/atrpms-package-config/.  This will
configure your repositories (you will probably need to clean out the
files you installed from Jarod's guide, which should be in
/etc/yum.repos.d/).

The trick with CentOS is to do a yum install mythtv-suite, which will
fail.  Get a list of missing dependencies from the output from yum.
You will then need to enable the atrpms-testing repo (edit
/etc/yum.repos.d/atrpms.repo and change "enabled=0" to "enable=1" in
the section labeled "[atrpms-testing]") and attempt to individually
install each of the missing dependencies.  If you can't figure out
what package provides a missing dependency type "yum whatprovides
<dependency>" and it should tell you.

At the end of it all, there will still be one missing dependency (I
can't remember what it is).  I found it at Dag Wieers' site
(http://dag.wieers.com/rpm/).  Install it.

Then **and this is important** re-edit /etc/yum.repos.d/atrpms.repo
and change "enabled=1" back to "enable=0" in the section labeled
"[atrpms-testing]".  It is important to **not** use atrpms-testing for
production systems that you want to be stable -- you may certainly use
it if you want the latest and greatest and want to help Axel test
things.

Once you have all of the dependencies (its about 5 or 6) installed and
you have reconfigured atrpms.repo, try yum install mythtv-suite again
and it should work.

Also, if you happen to write down the list of dependencies that are
needed from atrpms-testing, post the list here so that others can more
easily do the installation.  Good luck.

George