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todat, the mythtv saga continues.

 

next command in the how-to says

[root@localhost ~]# yum update

….

Error: Missing Dependency: pwlib >= 1.10.1 is needed by package ekiga-2.0.2-7.0.2.i386 (installed)
Error: Missing Dependency: libpt_linux_x86_r.so.1.10.1 is needed by package ekiga-2.0.2-7.0.2.i386 (installed)
Error: Missing Dependency: pwlib >= 1.10.1 is needed by package opal-2.2.2-1.1.0.1.i386 (installed)
Error: Missing Dependency: libpt_linux_x86_r.so.1.10.1 is needed by package opal-2.2.2-1.1.0.1.i386 (installed)
Error: Missing Dependency: libx264.so.107 is needed by package libquicktime-1.2.1-1.el5.rf.i386 (installed)

 

Upsie daisy. Ok, I admit, I spent about 1 hour, finding the same shitty 3 post news thread from atrps on a dozen sites and the it finally hit me: god damn freaking priorities. They surealy are bad when you use a lot of test and 3rd party repos. Ok, so I disabled it entirely.

 

Now, at this stage you must make sure you remember: your system is f*cked up. It has packages from different repos, test repositories. Unstable, not completely tested and so on.

 

now, back to our screwed up system. we need to do some cleaning. First, lets remove all the conflicting packages.

[root@localhost ~]# yum remove libquicktime-1.2.1-1.el5.rf.i386 opal-2.2.2-1.1.0.1.i386 ekiga-2.0.2-7.0.2.i386 ekiga-2.0.2-7.0.2.i386

[root@localhost ~]# rpm -qa | grep pwlib
pwlib-1.10.1-7.0.1.el5
[root@localhost ~]# yum erase pwlib-1.10.1-7.0.1.el5

[root@localhost ~]# rpm -qa | grep libx264
libx264_114-0.114-15_20110308.2245.el5
[root@localhost ~]# yum erase libx264_114-0.114-15_20110308.2245.el5

yum install still gives the same old crap.

 

what next? fucking windows, that’s what’s nexts. How the fuck can you build a software that cannot be installed on a  fresh system? Seriously. I tried knoppmyth, mythtv, freevo and a bunch of other linux based dvr/pvr but NONE worked nor installed right. Are you linux people really that fucked up? Only stuff from base repos are really working. isn’t there any serious guy out there with a 3rd party repo that is properly kept in sync and relatively uptodate? How the hell are you expecting to get linux out to the masses when a fucking linux sysadmin can’t install your freaking software?

 

I wasted weeks on this shit you idiots. WEEKS. Windows solution is slow but at least IT WORKS.

 

So eat shit, you twits.

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I tried knoppmyth. Didn’t work for me. For some reason, even though I noticed it picked upo my card, I just couldn’t find it in the menus to be able to watch or record anything from tv.

So, I decided to go the old fashioned way.

You will go on mythtv site, read the wiki how-to for installing on centos. then you continue with the howto for installing on fedora as instructed there.

Now, after you got the new kernel and stuff set up, reboot.

Now, you go on with isntalling packages and you end up with mythtv. But, bummer.

at any one point, you’ll get errors like:

Missing Dependency: libpt_linux_x86_r.so.1.10.1 is needed by package opal-2.2.2-1.1.0.1.i386 (installed)

make sure you install all needed keys. like:

[root@localhost ~]# rpm –import /etc/pki/rpm-gpg/RPM-GPG-KEY*
[root@localhost ~]# rpm –import http://rpm.livna.org/RPM-LIVNA-GPG-KEY
[root@localhost ~]# rpm –import http://freshrpms.net/RPM-GPG-KEY-freshrpms

[root@localhost ~]# rpm –import http://packages.atrpms.net/RPM-GPG-KEY.atrpms

and then finally

[root@localhost ~]# yum install mythtv

….

Error Downloading Packages:
myththemes-0.24-177.noarch: failure: myththemes-0.24-177.noarch.rpm from atrpms: [Errno 256] No more mirrors to try.

that’s ok, it was just an internet kickup. run install once more…

[root@localhost yum.repos.d]# yum install mythtv

….

Transaction Check Error:
file /usr/share/man/man3/Tie::Watch.3pm.gz conflicts between attempted installs of perl-Tk-804.029-2.el5.pp.i386 and perl-Tie-Watch-1.301-1.el5.pp.noarch
file /usr/lib/perl5/vendor_perl/5.8.8/Date/Manip.pm conflicts between attempted installs of perl-DateManip-5.44-1.2.1.noarch and perl-Date-Manip-6.14-0_15.el5.noarch
file /usr/lib/perl5/vendor_perl/5.8.8/Date/Manip.pod conflicts between attempted installs of perl-DateManip-5.44-1.2.1.noarch and perl-Date-Manip-6.14-0_15.el5.noarch
file /usr/share/man/man3/Date::Manip.3pm.gz conflicts between attempted installs of perl-DateManip-5.44-1.2.1.noarch and perl-Date-Manip-6.14-0_15.el5.noarch

Ouch!

Few hours of googleing results in:

[root@localhost yum.repos.d]# yum erase perl-Date-Manip-6.14-0_15.el5.noarch

resulting in

Package(s) perl-Date-Manip-6.14-0_15.el5.noarch available, but not installed.

so just ingore

[root@localhost yum.repos.d]# yum erase perl-DateManip-5.44-1.2.1.noarch

does the same thing so ignore again

then

[root@localhost yum.repos.d]# yum install perl-DateManip

….

Package perl-DateManip is obsoleted by perl-Date-Manip, trying to install perl-Date-Manip-6.14-0_15.el5.noarch instead

(now this sounds good)

then

[root@localhost yum.repos.d]# yum install perl-Tk

resulting in

Transaction Check Error:
file /usr/share/man/man3/Tie::Watch.3pm.gz conflicts between attempted installs of perl-Tie-Watch-1.301-1.el5.pp.noarch and perl-Tk-804.029-2.el5.pp.i386

Ouch again!

[root@localhost yum.repos.d]# yum erase perl-Tie-Watch-1.301-1.el5.pp.noarch perl-Tk-804.029-2.el5.pp.i386

then

[root@localhost yum.repos.d]# yum install yum-priorities

then edit each repo and set proper priorities (google as I no longer have the link and I’m just too lazy to search the history) (basically all centos good repos will be 1, testing will be like 10, 3rd party will be 10+ making sure that testing and such always get a higher prio than the base fo the 3rd party)

then

[root@localhost yum.repos.d]# yum erase perl-Tie-Watch

and then

[root@localhost yum.repos.d]# yum install perl-Tk

Uau. That worked 🙂

so now do

[root@localhost yum.repos.d]# yum install perl-Tk-TableMatrix

and then again

[root@localhost yum.repos.d]# yum install mythtv

…

Missing Dependency: perl(XML::Twig) >= 3.28 is needed by package xmltv-grabbers-0.5.59-84.el5.noarch (atrpms)

Bummer. Ok, this is now because of priorities 😉 Remember, we set them up so that testing will not override base. That is usually a good thing to do. So, lets install it manually:

[root@localhost yum.repos.d]# package-cleanup –problems

Doesn’t hurt 🙂

now lets ignore priorities because it’s a pain going around them (alternatively, don’t enable them. but it could lead you to issues later on when upgrading):

[root@localhost yum.repos.d]# yum install mythtv –disableplugin=priorities

….

Dependency Updated:
perl-XML-Twig.noarch 0:3.29-11.el5

Complete!

Ta-Dah! There. It installed.

Following days, when I’ll get time, I’ll be getting back if and how I get it working.

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