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

[OJ]

2008/11/13 Kevin J. Cummings <cummings at kjchome.homeip.net>:
> 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.
>
> --
> Kevin J. Cummings
> kjchome at rcn.com
> cummings at kjchome.homeip.net
> cummings at kjc386.framingham.ma.us
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I think MythTV is available through http://rpmfusion.org/ as well.