[mythtv-users] Updated MythTV RPMs

[Declan Shanaghy]

I just discovered this libexpat problem you mention.
In the docs it says to change /etc/sysconfig/i18n
to state LANG="en_US"

I did this and it doesnt stop all the UTF errors i'm
getting?!?! Is there something else i must do?

On the xmltv site it states:

The Date::Manip shipped with Red Hat 8.0 (version 5.40)
exhibits problems with utf-8 locales. Until this is fixed
utf-8 users must prepend the calls to xmltv executables
with "LANG=C ".

Is this a different issue?

--- Cedar McKay <cedarmckay at mac.com> wrote:
> 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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