[mythtv-users] problems installing on redhat9 w/apt

[Alex Strasheim]

> It is posted. Get it while it's hot.

Thanks...  I really like the guide, it's very helpful to have something that
takes you from bare metal to a working system.

I don't know if this is my fault, or a problem with the apt databases, but I
got a "Couldn't find package alsa-utils" error.

Also, I'm confused by the sequence with lirc.  The guide has instructions
for installing lirc in section 12, and the mythtv-suite install happens in
section 10.

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I'm not sure how to query apt about version numbers, but this is what I
could find out about the failure of mythtv-suite to install.

"apt-get install mythtv-suite" failed, so I ran:
"apt-get install mythvideo", which also failed.  It told me that it needs
"mplayer", so I tried:
"apt-get install mplayer" and got:


The following packages have unmet dependencies:
  mplayer: Depends: liblirc_client.so.0 but it is not installable
           Depends: lirc but it is not installable
E: Broken packages

and:

[root at localhost root]# apt-get install liblirc_client.so.O
Reading Package Lists... Done
Building Dependency Tree... Done
E: Couldn't find package liblirc_client.so.O
[root at localhost root]#

and:

[root at localhost root]# apt-get install lirc
Reading Package Lists... Done
Building Dependency Tree... Done
Package lirc has no available version, but exists in the database.
This typically means that the package was mentioned in a dependency and
never uploaded, has been obsoleted or is not available with the contents
of sources.list
E: Package lirc has no installation candidate

Finally, this command from Section 12 didn't run:

[root at localhost root]# apt-get install lirc-kmdl-$KERNEL
Reading Package Lists... Done
Building Dependency Tree... Done
E: Couldn't find package lirc-kmdl-2.4.20-20_29.rh9.at
[root at localhost root]#