[mythtv-users] Debian Lenny with upcoming mythtv release?

Jason Spears shadestalker at thatsmystapler.org
Mon Dec 29 20:32:20 UTC 2008


On Mon, Dec 29, 2008 at 3:10 PM, diane mittnik <dianemittnik at gmail.com>wrote:

> From what I've seen in recent comments about the next mythtv release
> that supports the new nVidia drivers, QT4 is required.  Watching
> Debian Lenny's list, last I checked they are sticking with KDE 3.x
> instead of going with the newer KDE 4.x, so if I understand it
> correctly Debian Lenny is going to come with QT3.x.
>
> If I understand all this correctly (and I probably don't), Debian
> Lenny is going to be incompatible with the next mythtv release
> supporting nVidia's latest drivers (VDPAU) and it's integration into
> Mythtv because of the QT4 requirement (which will probably also affect
> other non-bleeding edge distros that don't incorporate QT4, like
> stable versions of other distros, etc.)
>
> Is this correct about Debian Lenny and should I plan on hoping for a
> release of Debian unstable that works and shouldn't be updated once
> VDPAU works with it, or should I relax?
>

According to current testing, the QT4 libs are in, just KDE4 is not (yet?).

http://packages.debian.org/lenny/libqtcore4

If you really want KDE4 too, there's always experimental.

http://packages.debian.org/search?keywords=kde4

Cheers,

Jason
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