[mythtv-users] Can't connect to MYSQL

[Robert McNamara]

On Mon, Nov 22, 2010 at 7:06 AM, R. G. Newbury <newbury at mandamus.org> wrote:
> On 11/21/2010 09:53 PM, Mike A wrote:
>>
>> Still can't connect, but I have more info. When mythtv-setup executes a
>> terminal window appears with event messages but is only visible a very
>> short time since the mythtv screen comes up and covers everything. After
>> running it several times I was able to piece together the following
>> messages.
>>
>> Runtime prefix /usr
>> Using config dir ~/.mythv
>> Using local hose value of localhost
>> SQL Database: QMYSQL3 driver not loaded
>> SQL Database: available drivers:
>> Unable to init db connection
>> New Database connection Total:1
>> SQL Database Opendatabase(): db object is not valid
>>
>> It seems I am missing a driver. Does the 3 in QMYSQL3 mean Qt3. I do not
>> have qt3 installed, just qt4. However since I installed mythtv with
>> Ubuntu 10.4 distribution packages, I would think they would include any
>> qt3 libs.
>>
>> Anybody know what qt3 package I need to install?
>>
>
> You are probably missing a '-devel' package. This is a list of the required
> dependencies under Fedora 12 taken from an install script. The names
> unfortunately WILL be different on Ubuntu.

This is probably a false lead.  -devel packages are used for
compilation/development.  His issue is a runtime issue-- he won't need
any -devel packages (on Ubuntu) to run MythTV.  Your list of fedora
deps also looks like compile dependencies.

Robert