[mythtv-users] Updated MythTV RPMs

[Cedar McKay]

why would you want to use the rpms in this situation? You are just  
adding another layer of complexity and potential screwups to an already  
complicated install process. In my opinion there are too many things  
that rpms (probably) don't take into account here. For instance, does  
your rpm know that libexpat is broken in RH8? Does your rpm set the  
LANG variable to "us"? Or know that sometimes you have to run ldconfig  
multiple times? Or that sometimes you do need to recompile the kernel  
to get lirc running and sometimes you don't. The easiest thing is to  
just follow along with the docs at www.mythtv.org/docs/ You can be  
nearly braindead and just as long as you follow the docs and don't skip  
anything you will probably be fine. We have already made all the  
mistakes for you, already torn out our hair, come out the other side,  
and written everything down in the docs! Just follow along, and when  
you get to mythtv it is a simple configure, make, make install. And  
then you won't have to tear _your_ hair out bumbling around with rpms  
made by who knows who, and inventing new problems that nobody really  
wants to solve.



ahhhh that felt good

cedar


On Friday, February 14, 2003, at 04:49 PM, Alex Davidson wrote:

> I am getting a Segmentation Fault when I run mythfilldatabase and was
> getting dependency errors when I tried to install:
> http://atrpms.physik.fu-berlin.de/dist/rh80/at-testing/mythtv/mythtv- 
> 0.7-0at
> 7.i686.rpm
> so I went to
> http://atrpms.physik.fu-berlin.de/dist/rh80/at-good/apt/
> where I downloaded and installed:
> http://atrpms.physik.fu-berlin.de/dist/rh80/at-good/apt/apt-0.5.4cnc9- 
> fr1at8
> .i686.rpm
>
> I made sure:
> rpm http://apt.physik.fu-berlin.de redhat/8.0/en/i386 at
> rpm-src http://apt.physik.fu-berlin.de redhat/8.0/en/i386 at
> were at the top of /etc/apt/sources.list
>
> Ran apt-get install mythtv
>
> and it says:
> Reading Package Lists... Done
> Collecting File Providers... Error!
> E: Could not open RPM package list file
> /var/state/apt/lists/apt.physik.fu- 
> berlin.de_redhat_8.0_en_i386_base_pkglist
> .at: (no error)
> E: problem opening
> /var/state/apt/lists/apt.physik.fu- 
> berlin.de_redhat_8.0_en_i386_base_pkglist
> .at
> E: The package lists or status file could not be parsed or opened.
>
> Could this be a temporary server problem or something more serious?
>
> Alex
>
> ----- Original Message -----
> I'm not the person who created the RPMs - Axel Thimm has gone through
> the trouble of creating/maintaining them.  I've just updated the RPMs
> with a fix for a problem I was having.  That being said, this RPM does
> not itself include all the dependencies.  However, there are RPMs for
> all the components necessary to run mythtv, so one need not worry about
> having to deal with non-RPM tarballs and such.
>
> The easiest way to avoid RPM dependency hell in installing mythtv is to
> use apt.  I installed apt4rpm from http://psyche.freshrpms.net.  Using
> apt configured with the appropriate RPM repositories, one should be  
> able
> to install mythtv by simply issuing the command 'apt-get install
> mythtv'.
>
> Refer to this page for instructions:
> http://atrpms.physik.fu-berlin.de/
>
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