On Sat, 17 Nov 2007 16:22:37 +0000 Farran Lee <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > no, sorry. That won't work either. > (You may have come across this before from me - I have posted it a > couple of times.) Months ago, I attempted to install MythTV and all > it's addons. When it got about half way through the installation > process, it asked for configuration; for a MySQL database. I didn't > really know what it was, thought it was some kind of online > subscription or something. Recently discovered it was something > actually on my computer - except it hadn't been in the dependencies > list for MythTV when it was installing. So I _still_ have a half > installed MythTV, and no MySQL. I can't install or remove anything. I > tried installing MySQL through source (or whatever it is when it > isn't a .deb - basically unarchiving a gzip and using the make > commands etc), but my computer has NEVER liked that process. I would > be hugely pleased if this could be fixed, although I am due to build > a new pc soon.
The options for installing stuff are really the package manager or building it from source. Just to encourage my laziness in not going looking for previous threads: what is the output from aptitude when you ask it to install stuff (or remove mythTV)? ________________________________________________________ Robert McWilliam [EMAIL PROTECTED] www.ormiret.com vi vi vi - Editor of the beast. -- ubuntu-uk@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-uk https://wiki.kubuntu.org/UKTeam/
