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Re: mythtv fails



Hamish Moffatt (hamish@debian.org) wrote:
> On Mon, Sep 26, 2005 at 08:17:44PM +0900, Craig Hagerman wrote:
> > Has anyone had success installing mythtv on debian (sid) amd64
> > recently? I have been trying recently without success. I added these
> > lines to /etc/apt/sources.list
> > 
> > ### --- mythtv
> > deb     http://dijkstra.csh.rit.edu/~mdz/debian unstable mythtv
> > deb-src http://dijkstra.csh.rit.edu/~mdz/debian unstable mythtv
> 
> > But apt-get update complains:
> 
> Indeed; there's no sign of any amd64 files on that server.
> I don't remember ever seeing them there. Not just for unstable either -
> the hoary debs are also i386 only.
> 
> > I also tried to download the tarball and install manually, but it
> > fails, complaining that:
> > 
> > In file included from avcodec.h:14,
> >                  from utils.c:27:
> > common.h:61: error: array type has incomplete element type
> > common.h:65: error: array type has incomplete element type
> 
> That's probably due to gcc 4. Try with gcc-3.3.

GCC-3.4 is the one to use.
Must hack a bit on the rules file, and some other (Don't remember)
I have uploaded myth and mythplugins to:
deb http://pure64.org/debian ./


> 
> > Any ideas why the normal apt-get install (binary, not source) is
> > failing? or ideas what is going wrong here? I did a successful install
> > of mythtv on a ubuntu 5.04 AMD64 system one month ago with no problems
> > whatsoever. I had thought it would be as painless on my Debian sid.
> 
> I think Ubuntu includes MythTV, so you got the debs from ubuntu.com
> and not from mdz's personal site. Debian does not include MythTV.
> 
> There are brand new source packages available from mdz's site which might
> compile for you on unstable ie they'll do the right thing wrt gcc.
> 
> Hamish
> -- 
> Hamish Moffatt VK3SB <hamish@debian.org> <hamish@cloud.net.au>
> 
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