[mythtv-users] Mythtv on FC6 -> Fedora7 Upgrade

[Axel Thimm]

On Wed, Dec 05, 2007 at 02:12:15PM -0500, Jacob Steenhagen wrote:
> On 11/25/07, Shanon Mulley <shanonmulleyster at gmail.com> wrote:
> >
> > I ended up abandoning the FC6-F7 upgrade. I'm just going to have to
> > deal with an out of date kernel.
> >
> > I think when this machine gets to out of out doubt, I might go the
> > CentOS way. Having an OS which is supported for a number of years is
> > starting to sound very appealing. Hopfully by then there will be a
> > good CentOS mythtv installation guide.
> >
> 
> I just recently installed CentOS on a new machine to migrate my mythtv to
> from an older FC4 install. I had a couple reasons for doing this (bought a
> new TV w/VGA input so I don't need the PVR-350's output anymore; I've been
> running a bit of a hack to remove the extra 0's from the Schedules Direct
> data as I didn't have a good clean upgrade path to 0.20.2). I pretty much
> followed Jarod's guide when I did the FC4 install and that's what I went
> back to for the CentOS install. For the most part, it's the same thing.
> Probably the biggest difference is the atrpms repository for el5 is at a
> different URL than Fedora so I had to go hunting for a different
> /etc/yum.repos.d/atrpms.repo. There were also a few of RPM's I had to
> download manually (PIL, libFLAC8, perl-XML-Twig)...

Note that these are in atrpms-testing.

> a couple of these had dependencies that weren't loaded in my initial
> install but I could install those using yum (tk, perl-XML-Parser,
> atrpms). Outside of those, as I recall it was pretty much the same
> thing.
-- 
Axel.Thimm at ATrpms.net
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