[mythtv-users] Qt5webkit and php

John Hoyt john.hoyt at gmail.com
Sat Feb 15 18:25:18 UTC 2025


On Sat, Feb 15, 2025 at 1:17 PM James Abernathy <jfabernathy at gmail.com>
wrote:

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> On Sat, Feb 15, 2025 at 12:18 PM James Abernathy <jfabernathy at gmail.com>
> wrote:
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>> On Sat, Feb 15, 2025, 12:01 PM Roland Ernst <rcrernst at gmail.com> wrote:
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>>> On Sat, Feb 15, 2025 at 5:25 PM James Abernathy <jfabernathy at gmail.com>
>>> wrote:
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>>>> I'm trying to understand mythtv dependencies. For a number of distros
>>>> mythtv/ansible solves this problem.  However on Archlinux we depend on the
>>>> AUR, which is user maintained and sometimes falls behind.
>>>>
>>>> A while back, qt5webkit, which is an AUR package fell out of favor and
>>>> mythtv could not be built. At the time it was determined that using  AUR
>>>> package  'python-pyqt5-webengine' would allow mythtv-git to be built.
>>>>
>>>> A number of users don't use the mythplugins and that seems to be where
>>>> some of the webkit packages are needed.
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>>>> I can build mythtv-git on Arch using a modified PKGBUILD file to make
>>>> it use fixes/35 and removing python3-future dependency.
>>>>
>>>> However, today I was playing with the new cmake build on Archlinux.It
>>>> seems to build correctly with the exception of qt5webkit missing.
>>>> Apparently, the python-pyqt5-webengine will not satisfy that dependency.
>>>>
>>>> Any guidance?
>>>>
>>>> Jim A
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>>> 'python-pyqt5-webengine' is a red herring. Don't use it.
>>> Roland
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>> But that's the only way to build mythtv-git on Archlinux. qt5webgit will
>> not build at all.
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>> Jim A
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> Maybe I should ask it this way. What part of Mythtv uses qt5webkit?
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Last I remembered mythmusic and mythbrowser.   It's no longer necessary if
you build with qt6.
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