[mythtv-users] QMYSQL3 driver not loaded - how do you reinstall support?

rick schultz rick.schultz at gmail.com
Thu Aug 19 15:11:15 EDT 2004


On Thu, 19 Aug 2004 14:24:50 -0400, James Pifer <jep at obrien-pifer.com> wrote:
> When I try to run the frontend I get:
> mythfrontend
> QSqlDatabase: QMYSQL3 driver not loaded
> QSqlDatabase: available drivers:
> QSqlDatabase: QMYSQL3 driver not loaded
> QSqlDatabase: available drivers:
> Unable to connect to database!

I saw something remarkably similar to that this morning.  I'd
installed the -dev packages for some libraries, and apt upgraded
libqt3c102-mt from 3.2.3-2 to 3.2.3-4 without updating
libqt3c102-mt-mysql.  For me, an `apt-get install libqt3c102-mt-mysql'
was the fix.

> qt-MySQL is installed

Could you possibly have inconsistent versions installed?  apt offers
me several qt-releated packages: qt2, qt3, qt3c, qt3-emb, etc, all of
which have their own associated mysql packages.  Just a package
revision (not even a minor upstream release) was enough to confuse my
setup.

> How do I reinstall qt-MySQL correctly so I can run mythfrontend?

What distribution is this?

-rick


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