On Sat, Oct 16, 2021 at 02:57:13PM -0500, R. Ramesh wrote: > Understood. Please also understand that we are users and not experts. I > understand unix/linux and general SW principles. I will use debian as I > trust this more than any other distribution. That does not mean I can learn > everything about it. I will have no choice but to go with help from > communities. I understand the cost. > >
== Fixing the breakage == > > I would recommend finding all the packages on your system with a > > dmo source, removing them, removing the dmo apt repository, > > fixing your system, and then... carefully consider whether you > > want to re-add the dmo apt repository at all. This. Remove all of these: remove VLC. Clear the packages. dpkg --purge them if that's what it takes. You will need to clear the packages in order to instqall/upgrade cleanly. Then add the deb-multimedia lines to /etc/apt/sources.list as at https://deb-multimedia.org/ Temporarily comment out the debian lines in that file - so _only_ the deb-multimedia lines are active [Add a # sign at the front of the line]. Do apt-update and so on as it says on the deb-multimedia site. Install the packages you want. Then comment out deb-multimedia and uncomment the debian lines. That means that the packages you want from deb-multimedia will all have been installed together without any conflicting packages from Debian main. Repeat the process when you update repositories. == deb-multimedia.org == >From https://deb-multimedia.org Subscribe to the mailing list to find out when packages are updated: To subscribe send an e-mail to dmo-changes-requ...@debmultimedia.org with subscribe in the subject. Or click on this link : dmo-changes-requ...@deb-multimedia.org?subject=subscribe Pretty much anything else you need is found at https://deb-multimedia.org/faq#q1 and following. > This is not acceptable to me. I will live broken system than a useless > system. I need what I have and I cannot simply delete them for the sake > making something pristine. Please understand we are users. No point in > having a system that does nothing. Apart from mythtv, I use browser. So, if > I take out dmo then I might as well install Win10. > > == Troubleshooting and further support == With luck: The steps given above will un-break your system sufficiently for you to install the deb-multimedia packages you want. At that point you are on your own because we can't really do more than best endeavours support for a mixed system and troubleshooting and problem solving are likely beyond us. We can't help you much further here on debian-user: effectively, you're then absolutely reliant on a third party repository for your mythtv. Problems/updates and so on are theirs to sort out. Any problems: Contact Christian Marillat Any breakage: Contact Christian Marillat. == Build it yourself == The other option is for you to build and maintain mythtv on your own system. This is well documented by the MythTV devs and would give you a self-contained system with a consistent build. https://www.mythtv.org/wiki/Build_from_Source#Installing_Build_Dependencies_without_Ansible and so on. The instructions at https://www.mythtv.org/wiki/Installing_MythTV_on_Debian are fairly clear though you'll want fixes/31 rather than fixes/30. > > Don't think I hate deb-multimedia. I have that repo enabled... > > on one system. Not on a system that I depend on functioning all > > the time. > > > > -dsr- > Thanks for your comments. I understand where you come from. I have no hard > feelings when someone tells me I am dumb. That is why I used debian-user. If > I do not get any help, I will find a way as I have done that many times. In > fact, I was going to wipe my system and reinstall from scratch and add dmo > as that is easier. > No one's telling you that you're dumb. You ended up with a broken system. Some of the steps above may help you fix it. Almost certainly, you don't actually need to reinstall from scratch - the Debian packaging system is fairly robust - but it might possibly be quicker, if you can't be bothered to find the dmo packages. > I was a linux user in 1991 and remained one. I am not going to be afraid to > find issues and resolve them. I just want to try to get expert opinion first > because I think that is the best approach. > The best expert opinion is fairly well summed up on the Debian wiki at https://wiki.debian.org/DontBreakDebian . The advice given above is fairly blunt and matter of fact because the users and developers on this list have seen this sort of thing lots of times before. > Regards > Ramesh > With every good wish, as ever, Andy Cater
