[mythtv-users] Newbie Help with vmlinux and dependencies

[Jarod C. Wilson]

On Sunday, Sep 14, 2003, at 15:57 US/Pacific, Mikael Magnusson wrote:

> On Sun, Sep 14, 2003 at 05:20:15PM -0500, Shay wrote:
>> At 04:45 PM 9/14/2003, you wrote:
>>> On Sun, Sep 14, 2003 at 03:43:32PM -0500, Shay wrote:
>>>> When I do:
>>>> apt-get install lirc lirc-kmdl-`uname -r`
>>>>
>>>> I get:
>>>> Reading Package Lists... Done
>>>> Building Dependency Tree... Done
>>>> You might want to run `apt-get -f install' to correct these:
>>>> The following packages have unmet dependencies:
>>>>   ivtv-kmdl-2.4.20-20.9: Depends: /boot/vmlinux-2.4.20-20.9
>>>> E: Unmet dependencies. Try 'apt-get -f install' with no packages (or
>>>> specify a solution).
>>>>
>>>>
>>>> What do I do to fix this?  I'm unfamiliar with dependencies.
>>>>
>>>
>>> Have you installed the kernel-2.4.20-20.9.<your arch>.rpm package, 
>>> it's
>>> required according to the package information of ivtv.
>>
>> I'm using Axel Thimm's ATrpms kernel, 2.4.20-20_29.rh9.at.  This is 
>> via
>> instructions from Jarod's site.  Everything else has gone ok, except 
>> for
>> this.  I did get the kernel though to avoid dependency problems 
>> according
>> to Jarod.  I'll try that again.
>>
>> -Shay
>>
>
> Shouldn't you install ivtv-kmdl-2.4.20-20_29 package instead, which
> should be compatible with 2.4.20-20_29.rh9.at? Maybe you have both
> ivtv-kmdl-2.4.20-20.9 and ivtv-kmdl-2.4.20-20_29 installed? In such
> case you should remove ivtv-kmdl-2.4.20-20.9.

If you're following the doc I wrote, it states in it that you should 
install the 2.4.20-20.9 Red Hat kernel also, to circumvent some current 
apt dependency resolution bugs. For some reason, despite the fact 
you're specifying exactly which kernel modules (the ones for 
2.4.20-20_29.rh9.at) you want to install, apt insists on installing the 
kernel modules for the latest Red Hat kernel also. However, for it to 
successfully install those, you have to actually have the 2.4.20-20.9 
Red Hat kernel installed.

I actually need to bring the issue up with Axel, as this should not be 
happening (and didn't a while back, so I believe a recent change caused 
this behavior).

Anyhow, the easy fix is to simply install the 2.4.20-20.9 Red Hat 
kernel (but you won't actually use it), and everything else should 
behave fine from there.

--Jarod

-- 
Jarod C. Wilson, RHCE

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