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

William Munson william_munson at bellsouth.net
Thu Nov 8 10:59:34 UTC 2007


Shanon Mulley wrote:
> As FC6 is due to have its support ended soon, I'm trying to upgrade my
> mythtv FC6 machine to Fedora7. I recently upgraded from FC5->FC6 (a
> few weeks back) via yum, which was a tad on the painful side, but
> after bashing some dependancies around, and removing a bunch of
> packages, I got it working.
>
> But my yum upgrade seems a little more problematic this time. I am
> getting the following dependency issues (this is after resolving about
> 2/3 of them):
>
> Error: Missing Dependency: libgnutls.so.12 is needed by package cups
> Error: Missing Dependency: libdbus-1.so.2 is needed by package kdebase
> Error: Missing Dependency: python(abi) = 2.4 is needed by package libxml2-python
> Error: Missing Dependency: libdbus-1.so.2 is needed by package libgnomecups
> Error: Missing Dependency: libgnutls.so.12(GNUTLS_1_2) is needed by package cups
> Error: Missing Dependency: /usr/lib/python2.4 is needed by package
> libxml2-python
> Error: Missing Dependency: libgnutls.so.12(GNUTLS_1_2) is needed by
> package cups-libs
> Error: Missing Dependency: libgnutls.so.12 is needed by package cups-libs
> Error: Missing Dependency: python(abi) = 2.4 is needed by package rpm-python
> Error: authconfig conflicts with nss_ldap < 254
> Error: Missing Dependency: libdbus-1.so.2 is needed by package cups
> Error: Missing Dependency: /boot/vmlinuz-2.6.23.1-21.fc7 is needed by
> package alsa-kmdl-2.6.23.1-21.fc7
> Error: Missing Dependency: /boot/vmlinuz-2.6.22.9-91.fc7 is needed by
> package nvidia-graphics100.14.09-kmdl-2.6.22.9-91.fc7
> Error: Missing Dependency: httpd = 2.2.4-4 is needed by package httpd-devel
>
> When I start removing these, it brings up all sorts of dependency
> issues (stuff that might be important). The most worrying one is
> rpm-python - removing this will remove yum - then I dont know how I'll
> be able to upgrade!
>
> Does anyone have any ideas how I can get around this?
>
> I have read that it might be better just to re-install, but installing
> mythtv was a world of pain - I dont want to do that again.
>
> Thanks.
>
> Shanon.
>
>   
Perhaps a better route would be to upgrade using a disk set rather than 
using the internet. You should be able to boot into F7 and upgrade your 
installation from the disk set rather than trying to upgrade a live system.

Bill




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