[mythtv-users] Desperate hope to save apt-gotten system!!

[David Schmidt]

I hope someone can tell me what I'm missing here.  If I haven't
resolved this by tomorrow, I'm just wiping the disk and installing
new.

1) I tried getting on IRC, but apparently either the myth channels are
down or my IRC is as broken as the rest of this system.

2) I've been doing UNIX/Linux for more than 10 years, but am totally
new to apt and other package managers.  It's eating my lunch.


I have a Jarod's Guide FC3 18.x install that was running beautifully
until I decided to get the remote working.  In an attempt to get ivtv
downgraded, I apt-get removed it.  Now:

# apt-get update
# apt-get install ivtv
Reading Package Lists... Done
Building Dependency Tree... Done
Some packages could not be installed. This may mean that you have
requested an impossible situation or if you are using the unstable
distribution that some required packages have not yet been created
or been moved out of Incoming.

Since you only requested a single operation it is extremely likely that
the package is simply not installable and a bug report against
that package should be filed.
The following information may help to resolve the situation:

The following packages have unmet dependencies:
  ivtv: Depends: ivtv-kmdl-1:0.4.5-108.rhfc3.at
E: Broken packages
# apt-get install ivtv-kmdl-1:0.4.5-108.rhfc3.at
Reading Package Lists... Done
Building Dependency Tree... Done
Package ivtv-kmdl-1:0.4.5-108.rhfc3.at is a virtual package provided by:
  ivtv-kmdl-2.6.12-2.3.legacy_FC3smp 0.4.5-108.rhfc3.at
  ivtv-kmdl-2.6.12-2.3.legacy_FC3 0.4.5-108.rhfc3.at
You should explicitly select one to install.
E: Package ivtv-kmdl-1:0.4.5-108.rhfc3.at is a virtual package with
multiple good providers.
# apt-get install ivtv-kmdl-2.6.12-2.3.legacy_FC3
Reading Package Lists... Done
Building Dependency Tree... Done
Some packages could not be installed. This may mean that you have
requested an impossible situation or if you are using the unstable
distribution that some required packages have not yet been created
or been moved out of Incoming.

Since you only requested a single operation it is extremely likely that
the package is simply not installable and a bug report against
that package should be filed.
The following information may help to resolve the situation:

The following packages have unmet dependencies:
  ivtv-kmdl-2.6.12-2.3.legacy_FC3: Depends:
/boot/vmlinuz-2.6.12-2.3.legacy_FC3 but it is not installable
E: Broken packages
# apt-get dist-upgrade
Reading Package Lists... Done
Building Dependency Tree... Done
Calculating Upgrade... Done
The following packages will be upgraded
  aalib alsa-lib alsa-lib-devel apt atrpms-package-config cups cups-libs
  ffmpeg gnupg imlib2 ivtv-firmware ivtv_xdriver less libXvMCW libasound2
  libavc1394_0 libbeecrypt6 libdc1394_control13 libgpg-error libmad libmyth
  libquicktime0 librpm4.4 libxvidcore4 lirc-lib mjpegtools mplayer mythbrowser
  mythdvd mythgallery mythgame mythmusic mythnews mythphone mythplugins
  myththemes mythtv mythtv-backend mythtv-frontend mythtv-setup mythtv-suite
  mythtv-themes mythvideo mythweather mythweb perl-Class-MethodMaker
  perl-MIME-Lite perl-Text-Kakasi perl-Tk perl-Tk-TableMatrix
  perl-WWW-Mechanize perl-XML-Simple perl-XML-Writer perl-XML-XPath popt
  python-urlgrabber rpm rpm-build rpm-devel rpm-python rpm-python24 transcode
  tzdata
The following packages will be REPLACED:
  ivtv-firmware-dec (by ivtv-firmware)  ivtv-firmware-enc (by ivtv-firmware)
The following packages will be REMOVED:
  up2date#4.4.23-4_11.rhfc3.at up2date-gnome#4.4.23-4_11.rhfc3.at
The following NEW packages will be installed:
  libavcodec51 libavformat50 libavutil49 libdvdnav4 libmad0 libpostproc51
  mythcontrols mythflix perl-Locale-Hebrew perl-Unicode-UTF8simple
The following packages have been kept back
  perl-XMLTV xmltv xmltv-grabbers xmltv-gui
63 upgraded, 10 newly installed, 2 replaced, 2 removed and 4 not upgraded.
Need to get 0B/59.5MB of archives.
After unpacking 31.8MB of additional disk space will be used.
Do you want to continue? [Y/n] y
Committing changes...
Preparing...                ########################################### [100%]
        file /usr/lib/libbeecrypt.so.6 from install of
libbeecrypt6-4.1.2-9.2_11.rhfc3.at conflicts with file from package
beecrypt-3.1.0-6
E: Error while running transaction
# apt-get remove libbeecrypt6-4.1.2-9.2_11.rhfc3.at
Reading Package Lists... Done
Building Dependency Tree... Done
E: Couldn't find package libbeecrypt6-4.1.2-9.2_11.rhfc3.at
# apt-get remove beecrypt-3.1.0-6
Reading Package Lists... Done
Building Dependency Tree... Done
E: Couldn't find package beecrypt-3.1.0-6



I'm totally at a loss.  What am I doing wrong?!??!

Many thanks!

DS