[mythtv-users] How to convert from rpmfusion to atrpms

George Galt george.galt at gmail.com
Mon Aug 30 20:19:59 UTC 2010


On Mon, Aug 30, 2010 at 2:48 PM, Gary Buhrmaster
<gary.buhrmaster at gmail.com> wrote:
> On Mon, Aug 30, 2010 at 14:59, George Galt <george.galt at gmail.com> wrote:
>> YMMV, but I did the following about a year ago, so far without issue:
>>
>> 1) remove mythtv
>> 2) delete RPMFusion repositories
>> 3) add ATRPM repositories
>> 4) yum update (which did replace some RPMFusion files with ATRPM
>> files, I believe).
>> 5) yum install mythtv
>
> I would add three steps:
>
>  2.2) If needed, install yum-utils for the package-cleanup util
>  2.4)  run 'package-cleanup --orphans' to determine
>         which rpms are now orphaned (having been
>         installed via a now non-existant repo)
>  2.6) Remove those rpms identified in (2.4), and
>        plan to reinstall via atrpm.
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Gary:

It was a while ago and I may have done a few of these steps, but even
if I didn't, you have an excellent suggestion.

Thanks,

George


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