[mythtv-users] Running MythTV on CentOS

[Kirk Bocek]

On 10/6/2014 10:55 AM, Kirk Bocek wrote:
>
> On 10/6/2014 10:49 AM, Gary Buhrmaster wrote:
>> On Mon, Oct 6, 2014 at 5:27 PM, Kirk Bocek <t004 at kbocek.com> wrote:
>> ...
>>> It was doable.
>> Well, yes, and no (it depends).
>>
>> If you had a RHEL 6 package that required Qt,
>> it likely had a dependency on the Qt 4.6
>> version that you replaced, and, depending on
>> the specifics of the depends (some had a
>>> = version dependency, some a soname dependency,
>> I have seen both in the past in packages), you
>> then could end up not being able to install/upgrade
>> the RHEL package So certainly doable with
>> enough other constraints (i.e. no conflicting
>> package requirements) for your appliance.
>> Again, great, if it works for your specific needs.
>>
>
> I understand.
>
> My frontends, dedicated to MythTV, so no conflict.
>
> My backend in the garage is headless, so no GUI apps needing Qt other 
> than MythTV. I *could* see a problem where I wanted to run something 
> graphical over VNC. I already do that to run mythtv-setup. But then, 
> that's why I have *two* servers in the garage.
>

In fact, looking at my CentOS5 install, I was able to do a parallel 
qt3/qt47 install leaving some qt3 packages in place:

$ rpm -qa |grep qt
qt3-3.3.3-2
qt47-4.7.2-1_18.el5
qt3-MySQL-3.3.3-2
qt-3.3.6-26.el5
avahi-qt3-0.6.16-10.el5_6
qt47-x11-4.7.2-1_18.el5
scim-qtimm-0.9.4-5
qt47-mysql-4.7.2-1_18.el5
qt-MySQL-3.3.6-26.el5
scim-qtimm-0.9.4-5
qt47-webkit-4.7.2-1_18.el5

I'm going to have to try this step on my CentOS 6 host and see what 
happens. The Qt install happens separate from the Myth install anyway.