[mythtv-users] Centos mythtv-setup-segfaults

Kevin dePfyffer kdepfyffer at gmail.com
Sat Sep 25 16:01:36 UTC 2010


On Sat, Sep 25, 2010 at 7:38 AM, Joe Henley <joehenley at kc.rr.com> wrote:
> kdepfyffer,
>
> I'm running CentOS 5.5 and MythTV 23.1; both from fresh installs.  These are
> the notes I made:
> ----------
> Set up atrpms:
>        Follow the install instructions on atrpms.net; rpm --import
> http://atrpms.net/RPM-GPG-KEY.atrpms
>        Copy the atrpms and freshmeat repo files from the prior install into
> /etc/yum.repo.d/  Or get them from atrpms and freshmeat
>
> Add the following to /etc/yum.repos.d/CentOS-Base.repo:
>        exclude=qt4 qt4-*
>        See "Installing_MythTV_on_RHEL-CentOS" for explanation
> Note:   I saw this too late; ie., when I tried to run mythtv-setup, it
> crapped out.  I googled and found the way to fix it was to install
> qt44-mysql from atrpms-testing, then erase qt4 and qt4-mysql.  It must be in
> this sequence and do not install qt44, it's not needed.
>
> Install mythtv:
>        yum install mythtv-suite --enablerepo=atrpms
>        I had some unresolved dependencies so I had to enable atrpms-testing.
> But then it found a later version of mythtv-suite in atrpms-testing.  So I
> disabled atrpms-testing, ran the install, analyzed the dependencies for
> those available only thru atrpms-testing and yum installed those with
> atrpms-testing active.  Then I went back and ran the install without atrpms
> testing available.
>        yum install qt44-x11 libtheoraenc1 libFLAC8 libtheoradec1 PIL
> perl-XML-Twig --enablerepo=atrpms-testing
>        yum install mythtv-suite
> Note:  When I updated it to 0.23.1, I could not use "yum update
> mythtv-suite."  It only updated mythtv, not all the other plugins,
> libraries, etc.  So I had to do them all manually.
>
> Then follow the info in MythTV Wiki:  Installing MythTV on Fedora
> -----------
>
> I hope this helps.  Good luck!
>
> Joe Henley
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Thanks Joe,
I tried following what you did but kept making a mistake somewhere. I
decided to play with FC13 for a while. CentOS 6 should be out in a
couple of moths and since I'm going to be upgrading my drives I
figured I would just try again with later.
Thank you for the response, I appreciate the help.


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