[KLUG Members] Compiling from source then installing by rpm

[Bruce Smith]

> > It's easier with core 1 at this point in time. 
> 
> I may just end up doing this.  As firewire is broke in FC2 as well. 

Yes, and LVM is broken too, which is handy for disk management.
(and you need a lot of disk space for myth! :)

>  So After installing FC2 And looking at atrpms.com he has all the mythtv rpms for core 2.  

The last I heard he had _most_ of the RPM's for FC2, but not all.
 
> > To remove it, delete the /boot files, remove the modules directory,
> > remove the source (where you compiled it), and remove the config lines
> > from your boot loader (grub.conf).  Quite simple actually.
> > 
> But it is not just the kernel I am considering compiling it is the
> whole ball of wax that is included in the above docs.  But I am
> concerned about maintenance of the install.  

If you install all the other software under /usr/local, it should be
easy to get rid of.  Of course YMMV.  :-)

> If I compile everything do I have to continue to compile new releases?

Yes.

> error: Failed dependencies:
>         /boot/vmlinuz-2.6.6-1.383 is needed by kernel-module-alsa-2.6.6-1.383-1.0.5a-0_30.rhfc2.at
>         kernel = 2.6.6-1.383 is needed by kernel-module-alsa-2.6.6-1.383-1.0.5a-0_30.rhfc2.at
>  
> Which confused me.  I assumed that there would be an rpm of this kernel but I can not find it if there is. 

Not sure.  He sometimes gets dependencies screwed up and/or is missing
an RPM on the download site.

If I was starting over today, I would _try_ MythTV on SuSE 9.1, 
for a couple reasons:

1)  SuSE 9.1 comes with 2.6.4, which is right before the 4K stack
problem starting with 2.6.5 (the Nvidia driver runs fine on it).
That gives you the best of all worlds, a new/current distro, and a 
2.6 kernel which runs all the required Myth software.

2)  I run SuSE 9.1 on all my other desktops.

The only problem I've heard of with running MythTV on SuSE is the
version of QT that comes with SuSE won't work with Myth, so that has to
be upgraded or installed elsewhere.

And I ran across RPM's for SuSE 9.1 here:
http://folk.uio.no/oeysteio/apt/suse/9.1-i586/

 - BS