[mythtv-users] bttv errors under Jarod's Fedora install

[Jarod C. Wilson]

On Jan 21, 2004, at 22:05, Darren Mak wrote:

> I am unable to apt-get bttv as seen in the error at the end of this
> paste...

Very odd... I'm not seeing the 20040105 package listed on Axel's web 
site, so it certainly looks like some bad mumbo-jumbo going one... 
Comments interspersed below...

> [root at backend1 mythtv]# export MYKERNEL=`uname -r`
[snip]
> [root at backend1 mythtv]# apt-get install bttv-kmdl-$MYKERNEL
> Reading Package Lists... Done
> Building Dependency Tree... Done
> The following extra packages will be installed:
>   video4linux-kmdl-2.4.22-1.2154.nptl_31.rhfc1.at
> The following NEW packages will be installed:
>   bttv-kmdl-2.4.22-1.2154.nptl_31.rhfc1.at
>   video4linux-kmdl-2.4.22-1.2154.nptl_31.rhfc1.at
> 0 upgraded, 2 newly installed, 0 removed and 1 not upgraded.
> Need to get 0B/103kB of archives.
> After unpacking 253kB of additional disk space will be used.
> Do you want to continue? [Y/n] y
> Committing changes...
> Preparing...                ###########################################
> [100%]
>    1:video4linux-kmdl-2.4.22###########################################
> [ 50%]
>    2:bttv-kmdl-2.4.22-1.2154###########################################
> [100%]
> Done.

So at this point, you have bttv-kmdl and video4linux-kmdl installed. So 
far, so good...

> [root at backend1 mythtv]# apt-get install bttv
> 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.
>
> Since you only requested a single operation it is extremely likely that
> the package is simply not installable and a bug report against
> that package should be filed.
> The following information may help to resolve the situation:
>
> The following packages have unmet dependencies:
>   bttv: Depends: bttv-kmdl (= 0.9.12-32.rhfc1.at)
> E: Broken packages

Try:

# apt-get install bttv#0.9.12-32.rhfc1.at

That should select the specific version you want to install, rather 
than the newest version in the repo.

> If I go into synaptic and look at bttv packages, the bttv-
> kmdl-2.4.22-1.2154.nptl_31.rhfc1.at package is listed as version
> 20040105_0.9.12-33.rhfc1.at while from the error above the dependency 
> of
> bttv is 0.9.12-32.rhfc1.at

Is the other one (the one you really want) listed at all?

> I tried to manually download the packages from
> http://atrpms.physik.fu-berlin.de/dist/fc1/bttv/ but installing
> bttv-kmdl-2.4.22-1.2154.nptl_31.rhfc1.at_0.9.12-32.rhfc1.at gave me an
> error about unlocatable package strictdep-kernel-i686

You should already have the necessary bttv-kmdl installed, so no need 
to do that. If you can't get it with Synaptic, try downloading and 
installing the bttv 0.9.12-32.rhfc1.at rpm.

> Can this last error be fixed with a symlink or something?

Not that I know of. There's an rpm database where all your installed 
package info resides, so you'd have to do some editing in there (very 
strongly NOT advised ;-).

> (or is that totally barking up the wrong tree.)

=]

> I also tried downloaded the bttv source but it also gives me an error
> and me to re-compile the kernel with modules enabled. I dont want to
> recompile the Kernel (because I failed miserably the last time I
> tried...) and would like to exhaust all other avenues first.

Nah, we'll get around things sooner or later here...

> Thanks for all your help and insight.

Glad to help out!

> I am really wanting to get my ATI
> TV-Wonder VE working in addition to my totally awesome PVR-250.

It won't even compare to the PVR-250, but certainly nice to have a 
secondary. :-)

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