[mythtv-users] Debian problems

[Dave Sherohman]

On Mon, Oct 24, 2005 at 04:23:34PM +0100, Alexander Fisher wrote:
> On 10/24/05, Dave Sherohman <esper at sherohman.org> wrote:
> > I got my main mythtv install off debs at
> >
> > deb ftp://ftp.nerim.net/debian-marillat/ unstable main
> > deb-src http://dijkstra.csh.rit.edu/~mdz/debian unstable mythtv
> >
> > but apt-cache search couldn't find mythplugins there
> 
> How hard were you looking? :)

# apt-get update
...
# apt-cache search plugin | grep myth
#

That hard.

> http://dijkstra.csh.rit.edu/~mdz/debian/dists/unstable/mythtv/source/
> does contain the plugins source package which can be recompiled
> without any real problems.

Yep, I see it there when I point a browser at that URL and it's
listed in the Sources.gz in that directory.  Does apt-cache need an
extra parameter to tell it to search source packages as well as
binaries?

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