Mythtv is it just a myth?January 13, 2008Been struggling with MythTV for a nearly two weeks. It seems that MythTV is just a myth. At first I tried to install from the sources but ./configure kept on complaining about a missing liblame even when it was present on the hard drive for all to see. So I switched to YUM. Installation through yum didn't go very smoothly either. Yum complained about missing dependencies even though yum is supposed to fix it. Some of the missing dependencies were related to ffmpeg and libmp4v2. I tried to install them through yumex only to find that they were already installed! Then I tried removing them and reinstalling - sometimes there are conflicts between RPMs from different repositories. Livna is a classic example, RPMs from that source often cause trouble. Removing libmp4v2 gave an interesting result: Dependencies Resolved ============================================================================= Package Arch Version Repository Size ============================================================================= Removing: libmp4v2 i386 1.5.0.1-5.fc8 installed 765 k libmp4v2 x86_64 1.5.0.1-5.fc8 installed 752 k Removing for dependencies: amarok x86_64 1.4.7-13.fc8 installed 28 M amarok i386 1.4.7-13.fc8 installed 28 M Transaction Summary ============================================================================= Notice how it's trying to remove (the dependency) amarok and libmp4v2 twice? yet you don't see yum attempting to reinstall them twice when you try to reinstall yum. In fact the dependencies are very different from what's shown by the 'yum install' command. Dependencies Resolved ============================================================================= Package Arch Version Repository Size ============================================================================= Installing: faac x86_64 1.25-2.fc8 atrpms 66 k Installing for dependencies: libfaac0 x86_64 1.25-2.fc8 atrpms 37 k libmp4v2 x86_64 1.5.0.1-5.fc8 fedora 264 k libmp4v2_0 x86_64 1.25-2.fc8 atrpms 236 k Transaction Summary ============================================================================= This really isn't the fault of mythtv but just goes to show that installing mythv isnt' the easiest thing in the world. That's probably why you find a mythdora and a linuxMCE. This doesn't mean I don't appreciate the hard work of those developers. It's all too easy to get carried away and complain too much. Posted by raditha at January 13, 2008 10:03 AM
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