[mythtv-users] Re: pcHDTV & ATrpms, nvidia-graphics-devel, CVS rpms

[Axel Thimm]

On Mon, Apr 05, 2004 at 02:51:11PM -0700, Jeff wrote:
> On Mon, Apr 05 Axel wrote: 
> [snip]
> 
> > > > > Step 10 - "apt-get install mythtv-suite" put all of my myth* >
> executables in 
> > > > > /usr/bin but when I compiled and installed the latest CVS they went into
> 
> > > > > /usr/local/bin. I soft linked the /usr/bin ones to clean this up. 
> > > > 
> > > > Why did you compile CVS? For XvMC support? There is XvMC for nvidia in 
> > > > the myth-cvs rpms. If you are a CVS builder, please consider testing 
> > > > the CVS rpms, so any packaging bugs can be found (but please, don't 
> > > > report packaging bugs here, but either at atrpms-(users|devel) or in 
> > > > private. See also the top notes at the myth-cvs URL). Thanks! 
> > > 
> [snip]
> 
> Axel - can you give some guidance as to what is in some of these packages.  I'd
> be willing to give them a try instead of building from CVS, but don't know what
> is needed versus not needed.  The plugins are obvious, but what are the
> differences between:
> 
> * mythtv / mythtv-frontend / mythtv-backend 

mythtv-frontend vs mythtv-backend should be obvious, mythtv is only
documentation, but also has dependencies to pull in the other two.

> * libmyth-devel / libmyth

The latter is the runtime, the former the build time component of the
library (you need both at build time).

> Do I need to grab all of them ?
> Where do these end up /usr/bin or /usr/local/bin ?

The former. You need all but -devel files to run an application, use
the -devel rpms to develop against this application
(e.g. libmyth-devel is needed by most plugins).
-- 
Axel.Thimm at ATrpms.net
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