[mythtv-users] Re: Problem with apt-get install ivtv

[Jarod C. Wilson]

On Saturday, Ellen Spertus wrote:

> I'm following Jarod's wonderful installation instructions

You're too kind. :)

> everything has gone smoothly up to step 10, getting and installing 
> ivtv,
> which fails. A transcript is below.
>
> Background: I am using kernel 2.4.20-19.9.3.at.  I ran "apt-get install
> mythtv-suite" without any errors.

So far, so good...

> [root at media root]# apt-get install ivtv ivtv-kmdl-`uname -r`
> Reading Package Lists... Done
> Building Dependency Tree... Done
> Some packages could not be installed. This may mean that you have
> requested an impossible situation or if you are using the unstable
> distribution that some required packages have not yet been created
> or been moved out of Incoming.
> The following information may help to resolve the situation:
>
> The following packages have unmet dependencies:
>   ivtv: Depends: perl(Video::Frequencies) but it is not installable
>         Depends: perl(Video::Frequencies) (>= 0.03) but it is not
> installable
>         Depends: perl(Video::ivtv) (>= 0.12) but it is not installable
>         Depends: perl-Video-Frequencies but it is not installable
>         Depends: perl-Video-ivtv but it is not installable
> E: Broken packages

Doh! I think I just figured out the problem here. Axel (the ATrpms 
maintainer) still has perl-Video-Frequencies and perl-Video-ivtv under 
his bleeding-edge package section, which isn't enabled by default in 
your apt sources.

Open up /etc/apt/sources.list and uncomment this line:
rpm     http://apt.physik.fu-berlin.de redhat/9/en/i386 at-bleeding

Then run
	# apt-get update

And then try apt-get install ivtv ivtv-kmdl-`uname -r` again. I'll 
shoot off a message to Axel. We recently deemed the ivtv rpms solid 
enough to be pulled out of the bleeding-edge section, but it appears we 
forgot to pull its dependencies out too. :( That'll be fixed shortly... 
In the mean time, the steps above ought to get you back on track. Bad 
documenter (and package guy :), no biscuit.

-jcw