[mythtv-users] Re: apt-get dependency resolution?

[Axel Thimm]

On Fri, Jan 30, 2004 at 10:04:15AM -0700, Gerald Schepens wrote:
> I'm going through Jarod C. Wilson's very helpful Red Hat 9 install 
> guide, and I've run across a snag.  When I do the apt-get insall 
> lirc-kmdl-`uname -r`, I get the following:
> 
> The following packages have unmet dependencies:
>  openssh-server: PreDepends: openssh (= 3.5p1-11) but 3.5p1-6 is to be 
> installed
>  qt-MySQL: Depends: qt (= 1:3.2.3-0.fdr.8.rh90) but 1:3.1.1-6 is to be 
> installed
>  tv-fonts: Obsoletes: xawtv-tv-fonts but 3.81-6 is to be installed

This means that apt detects problems in the rpm database (has nothing
to do with the actual command you asked apt to do).

Try apt-get -f install or apt-get dist-upgrade. Maybe that will fix
your rpm database before you can proceed.

> The last time I had issues like this (with the install of mythtv-suite), 
> I had to remove gtk2 and gtk+, which ended up un-installing a 
> fascinating number of other packages!  I don't want to go down that 
> particular road again if there's a different way of satisfying apt-get. 
> Has anyone come across this particular snag?  In general, how should 
> this sort of thing be handled with a minimum of catastrophe?
> 
> More particulars: my kernel is 2.4.20-28_36.rh9.at (Axel Thimm's patched 
> kernel).  My card's a Hauppauge WinTV PVR350, my video card's an nVidia 
> GeForce TI4200, and my motherboard's an Asus P4PE.  And I'm running my 
> hard drive off SATA, if that's relevant.
> 
> 
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