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stanb at awod

Jan 16, 2003, 6:43 AM

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Problem trying to istall MythTV on Debian

I had looked around a while back ro a TiVo like solution using my Debian
machine, but did not find one.

Today while browsing Slashdot, what do I find, but a pointer to something
called MythTV, and it has .debs! Wonderful.

Unfortunatley, I can't seem to get it installed :-(

Sorry, but the following packages have unmet dependencies:
mythtv: Depends: liblame0 (>= 3.92-0.0) but it is not installable
Depends: libxmltv-perl but it is not going to be installed
E: Sorry, broken packages

What can i do to fix this?

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ecc at cmu

Jan 16, 2003, 8:34 AM

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Re: Problem trying to istall MythTV on Debian [In reply to]

On Thu, Jan 16, 2003 at 08:43:29AM -0500, stan wrote:
> Unfortunatley, I can't seem to get it installed :-(
>
> Sorry, but the following packages have unmet dependencies:
> mythtv: Depends: liblame0 (>= 3.92-0.0) but it is not installable
> Depends: libxmltv-perl but it is not going to be installed
> E: Sorry, broken packages
>
> What can i do to fix this?

You can get lame etc. with this entry in /etc/apt/sources.list:

deb http://marillat.free.fr testing main

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merle.reine at lindows

Jan 16, 2003, 9:52 AM

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Re: Problem trying to istall MythTV on Debian [In reply to]

I just stayed up all night getting the latest cvs installed. I would
suggest compiling from source. I tried the debian version also but
source is much better. I work for Lindows.com and we will have a single
click debian package for the
mythtv,mythmusic,mythweather,mythgallery,mythweb, etc within the week.
I will keep you informed.

On Thu, 2003-01-16 at 05:43, stan wrote:

> I had looked around a while back ro a TiVo like solution using my Debian
> machine, but did not find one.
>
> Today while browsing Slashdot, what do I find, but a pointer to something
> called MythTV, and it has .debs! Wonderful.
>
> Unfortunatley, I can't seem to get it installed :-(
>
> Sorry, but the following packages have unmet dependencies:
> mythtv: Depends: liblame0 (>= 3.92-0.0) but it is not installable
> Depends: libxmltv-perl but it is not going to be installed
> E: Sorry, broken packages
>
> What can i do to fix this?
>
>
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ijr at po

Jan 16, 2003, 10:05 AM

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Re: Problem trying to istall MythTV on Debian [In reply to]

On Thursday 16 January 2003 11:52 am, Merle Reine wrote:
> I just stayed up all night getting the latest cvs installed. I would
> suggest compiling from source. I tried the debian version also but
> source is much better. I work for Lindows.com and we will have a single
> click debian package for the
> mythtv,mythmusic,mythweather,mythgallery,mythweb, etc within the week.
> I will keep you informed.

I do not want precompiled packages of anything in the CVS tree distributed.
When things are ready for larger distribution, then I will make the next
release, but until then, I consider the CVS tree broken and totally
unsupported.

Isaac

merle.reine at lindows

Jan 16, 2003, 10:31 AM

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Re: Problem trying to istall MythTV on Debian [In reply to]

Understood.

I get the following intermittently when I run: mythbackend and then
mythfrontend:

connecting to backend server: localhost:6543
Could not connect to backend server

Then it kills mysql and mythbackend .

Sometimes it connects correctly and other times it exhibits this
behavior. Any ideas?

On Thu, 2003-01-16 at 09:05, Isaac Richards wrote:

> On Thursday 16 January 2003 11:52 am, Merle Reine wrote:
> > I just stayed up all night getting the latest cvs installed. I would
> > suggest compiling from source. I tried the debian version also but
> > source is much better. I work for Lindows.com and we will have a single
> > click debian package for the
> > mythtv,mythmusic,mythweather,mythgallery,mythweb, etc within the week.
> > I will keep you informed.
>
> I do not want precompiled packages of anything in the CVS tree distributed.
> When things are ready for larger distribution, then I will make the next
> release, but until then, I consider the CVS tree broken and totally
> unsupported.
>
> Isaac
>
> _______________________________________________
> mythtv-dev mailing list
> mythtv-dev[at]snowman.net
> http://www.snowman.net/mailman/listinfo/mythtv-dev

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Jan 16, 2003, 10:42 AM

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Re: Problem trying to istall MythTV on Debian [In reply to]

On Thursday 16 January 2003 12:31 pm, Merle Reine wrote:
> Understood.
>
> I get the following intermittently when I run: mythbackend and then
> mythfrontend:
>
> connecting to backend server: localhost:6543
> Could not connect to backend server
>
> Then it kills mysql and mythbackend .
>
> Sometimes it connects correctly and other times it exhibits this
> behavior. Any ideas?

Make sure the backend's actually listening on that port, and note that if you
reinstall things, it will write over the default backend_settings.txt file.
Otherwise, no, I don't know what could be wrong with it.

Isaac

stanb at awod

Jan 16, 2003, 4:43 PM

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Re: Problem trying to istall MythTV on Debian [In reply to]

On Thu, Jan 16, 2003 at 03:20:10PM -0500, Eric C. Cooper wrote:
> > What should I do next?
>
> Many of the required packages are only in debian unstable. Make sure
> you're either using that, or else set up your apt.conf so you can
> selectively do "apt-get install -t unstable ...". Please check debian
> docs/lists for more on this if this is unfamiliar.

Thanks.

Ok, I did apt-get -t unstable mythtv, and _a lot- of packages were pulled
down, and installed. However, I'm hung up on:

Reading Package Lists... Done
Building Dependency Tree... Done
Sorry, mythtv is already the newest version.
0 packages upgraded, 0 newly installed, 0 to remove and 709 not upgraded.
1 packages not fully installed or removed.
Need to get 0B of archives. After unpacking 0B will be used.
Setting up mythtv (0.7-12) ...
DBI->connect(host=localhost;database=) failed: Can't connect to local MySQL server through
socket '/var/run/mysqld/mysqld.sock' (2) at -e line 5
Can't call method "do" on an undefined value at -e line 6, <> line 1.
dpkg: error processing mythtv (--configure):
subprocess post-installation script returned error exit status 255
Errors were encountered while processing:
mythtv
E: Sub-process /usr/bin/dpkg returned an error code (1)
smokey:~#

Now. It appears that the mysql server is not startign, correct?

I've never used it for anything, so I'm not familar with it.

How can I check this out?

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mdz at debian

Jan 18, 2003, 5:42 PM

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Re: Problem trying to istall MythTV on Debian [In reply to]

On Thu, Jan 16, 2003 at 08:43:29AM -0500, stan wrote:

> mythtv: Depends: liblame0 (>= 3.92-0.0) but it is not installable
> Depends: libxmltv-perl but it is not going to be installed
> E: Sorry, broken packages
>
> What can i do to fix this?

Read the instructions on the page where you found the debs.

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