[mythtv-users] Linux fo mythtv Centos vs. Ubuntu

[Mark Perkins]

On 06/01/18 10:12, Jim Abernathy wrote:
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> So I got to work on the Centos7 mythtv in a VM for test and then I quickly realized I hadn’t worked with Fedora or Centos for 6 or 7 years. No way to solve all the dependency problems.  Too big a learning curve for an old man.  I’ll stick with Ubuntu LTS based.  Thanks for the confirmation that all Linux DISTROs are complicated. I can get mythtv up and running on Ubuntu server or Desktop in under 30 minutes. So I’ll stay there.
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I usually compile mythtv from source but just tried to install from a 
base Centos7 image from scratch to see what was going on. Looks like 
might be a couple of issues at the moment?

First added EPEL ok:
$yum install epel-release

Then added rpmfusion (free and non free) ok:
$yum localinstall --nogpgcheck 
https://download1.rpmfusion.org/free/el/rpmfusion-free-release-7.noarch.rpm 
https://download1.rpmfusion.org/nonfree/el/rpmfusion-nonfree-release-7.noarch.rpm

Updated ok:
$yum update

Then tried to install mythtv. Two problems, missing dependency 
google-droid-sans-fonts and version problem with mythweb. Also looks 
like still 0.28 not 29.
$yum install mythtv

.......
Error: Package: mythtv-setup-0.28.1-5.el7.x86_64 (rpmfusion-free-updates)
            Requires: google-droid-sans-fonts
Error: Package: mythtv-0.28.1-5.el7.x86_64 (rpmfusion-free-updates)
            Requires: mythweb = 0.28.1
            Available: mythweb-0.28-6.el7.noarch (rpmfusion-free-updates)
                mythweb = 0.28-6.el7
Error: Package: mythtv-frontend-0.28.1-5.el7.x86_64 (rpmfusion-free-updates)
            Requires: google-droid-sans-mono-fonts


The font I could work around by enabling EPEL testing 
($yum-config-manager --enable epel-testing). But I cannot immediately 
see how to get around the mythweb version mismatch. Would need Richards 
guidance on this one.

It appears that nux-dextop is still working fine and is also providing 
version 29:
$yum install epel-release
$rpm -Uvh 
http://li.nux.ro/download/nux/dextop/el7/x86_64/nux-dextop-release-0-5.el7.nux.noarch.rpm
$yum update
$yum install mythtv