[mythtv-users] New Installation - Pref CentOs 7

[Hika van den Hoven]

Hoi Ashu,

Friday, August 4, 2017, 6:50:07 PM, you wrote:





> On Fri, Aug 4, 2017 at 11:35 AM, John Pilkington <J.Pilk at tesco.net> wrote:

> On 04/08/17 16:52, Ashu Desai wrote:
>  
>  
>  
>  On Fri, Aug 4, 2017 at 10:39 AM, Richard Shaw
> <hobbes1069 at gmail.com <mailto:hobbes1069 at gmail.com>> wrote:
>  
>      On Fri, Aug 4, 2017 at 10:35 AM, Ashu Desai <ashu.desai at gmail.com

>      <mailto:ashu.desai at gmail.com>> wrote:
>  
>              Yup, packages may or may not be named the same between
>              conflicting repos and the release numbers will very likely
>              be different which can cause a lot of issues. If you're
>              happy with Nux and mythtv 0.28 then it's really up to the
>              difference between the packages provided but it is painful
>              to switch. You'll have to remove the conflicting packages
>              and reinstall the equivalent in the other repo.
>  
>  
>          I would rather go with rpmfusion - but somehow wiki told me to
>          do the nux-desktop way.
>  
>          Anyways - now that i disabled nux - when i try to  erase the
>          conflicting package - aka - libquicktime - it wants to remove
>          mythtv :
>  
>         
> ==============================================================================================================================================================================================
>            Package                                         Arch    
> Version                                                   Repository Size
>         
> ==============================================================================================================================================================================================
>          Removing:
>            libquicktime                                    x86_64  
> 1.2.4-19.el7.nux                                         
> @nux-dextop                                  1.0 M
>          Removing for dependencies:
>            mjpegtools                                      x86_64  
> 2.1.0-5.el7.nux                                          
> @nux-dextop                                  1.5 M
>            mjpegtools-lav                                  x86_64  
> 2.1.0-5.el7.nux                                          
> @nux-dextop                                  140 k
>            mytharchive                                     x86_64  
> 0.28-4.el7.nux                                           
> @nux-dextop                                   18 M
>            mythplugins                                     x86_64  
> 0.28-4.el7.nux                                           
> @nux-dextop                                   18 k
>            mythtv                                          x86_64  
> 0.28-4.el7.nux                                           
> @nux-dextop                                   11 k
>  
>          Transaction Summary
>         
> ==============================================================================================================================================================================================
>          Remove  1 Package (+5 Dependent packages)
>  
>  
>      If you want to move repositories then it's best to remove ALL
>      packages from nux-dextop and reinstall the RPM Fusion equivalent.
>  
>  
>  I just finally got this working after like 4 days. Maybe i can
> recreate a VM and if that works close this one down. But I do prefer the RPMFusion way...
>  
>  Thank you!
>  
>  
>  I did the nux-to-rpmfusion switch a few days ago.  The wiki
> suggests nux because rpmfusion support for el7 was somewhat late in
> arriving.  I never had problems with the packages but updates rather faded away.
>  
>  I believe that
>  
>  $ rpm -qa --qf " %{NAME}\t%{VENDOR}\n " | grep -i nux!
>  
>  will identify nux packages and you can probably remove them without too much overhead by eg
>  
>  # rpm -e --nodeps libquicktime
>  
>  in the hope that yum will then reconnect everything.
>  
>  John P

>  


> These are the packages it finds for nux - basically all my myth packages on backend. 


> I tried doing rpm -e for one and basically it said that for
> dependency sake it needs to remove the myth packages. That got me
> worried. If i removed it, I am guessing i will have to re-configure the backed all over again?


Make a database backup prior to removing the package and restore it on
the new installed package. As long as the new package is the same
(sub)version or newer that should work.


Tot mails,
  Hika                            mailto:hikavdh at gmail.com

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