[mythtv-users] Use of ATRPM repositories ? (Myth on Fedora via wiki instructions)

[Kevin J. Cummings]

Linuxguy123 wrote:
>> I've learned how to use yum in shell mode to correct a number of my 
>> conflicts, the rest are handled with excludes in particular .repo files.
>>
>> PIL vs python-imaging
>> faac
>> faad
>> mplayer
>> ffmpeg
>>
>> have all caused me grief over the last 2 years.  
> 
> How about some examples of how you handled them ?  Why do these packages
> conflict with the Fedora versions ?  Will MythTV compile and run
> properly with the Fedora versions ?

Learning how to to run the yum shell and issue "install" and "remove" 
commands on various packages in order to keep the dependencies correct 
before issuing a "run" command to run the command set.  I learned by 
trial and error (though there weren't a lot of errors, yum told me when 
things weren't right and I had a chance to abort and change it).

Why do these packages conflict?  That's a question for Axel.  Some of it 
is historical as I'm sure Axel built some of his packages before they 
were available in the Fedora repositories in different forms.

Many people compile Myth from source on Fedora without problems (I'm not 
one of them, I use ATRPMs).  If you do that, you are responsible for 
finding, installing, and maintaining the dependant packages so that they 
work for you.

You could also try compiling from Axel's .SRPMs, but that would leave 
you with the same package conflicts you already have.

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