Woops- I got carried away tinkering and did an apt-get install mythbrowser, and have ended up with some nasty errors:

QSql Database: QMYSQL# driver not loaded
QSql Database: available drivers:
Unable to connect to database!
No error type from QSqlError? Strange...
Couldn't open database

The logs in /var/log/mysq/mysql.err say:

can't connect to local server through socket: /var/run/mysqld/mysqld.sock
check that mysql is running and that above sock exists

mysql is running and I can connect from terminal, and locate mysqld.sock return /var/run/mysqld/mysqld.sock, yet ls /var/run/mysqld/ returns nothing. Am I hosed? If not, what can I do to backtrack if anything? Thanks....

A little more information is needed about your setup. If you are running Knoppmyth, I believe that mythbrowser is not supported yet.

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Thanks- I am using the latest release of KnoppMyth, and I guess I should have asked around first but, as I said, I got a little carried away....I mean you can't just let your box sit there and work properly can you? Anyway, after looking around online I realized that the debs for Mythbrowser were available at dykstra.csh.rit.edu, and that this source was already in my sources.list, but commented out, so I un-commented and gave it a whirl. I have since managed to get Mythbrowser working by apt-get installing qt3 libs, but have now rendered mythmusic and gallery inoperable. I have a good backup so I think I'll try to plug through this when I have some more time. I don't know squat about Qt, but I had similar issues in the past when trying to install k3b. I'd like to get to the point where I can have k3b and maybe KDE running.... Thanks for the input.

Guess what there is a reason mythbrowser is not included in knoppmyth in this version, and you just found them out.

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So that's it...I'm done....non-recoverable...dis-functional...end of story? Glad I made a back up beforehand....
By the way, what is it that makes it so impossible to install mythbrowser? All features are working fine right now, except for mythmusic and mythgallery. Live tv, recordings mythweb, mythbrowser, mythweather, mythdvd, nuvexport...all fine. Do mythgallery and mythmusic have an incompatibility with qt3? Not that I'll really understand it, but I'd like to know what I shouldn't try to do in the future. Thanks again.

the only thing that has problems is mythbrowser, and it is some sort of qt3 dependacy version somthingorother conflict, and I'm sure with enough work could be worked out, but it's just too much work to mess with on the current version. mythbrowser will be/is functional in R5.

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As a rule of thumb, if I do an "apt-get install something" and it asks to upgrade libraries, I always say NO!! I've been bitten a few times with cases like yours, and also had it happen where it seemed like everything was working fine, until I went to upgrade to the latest Myth debs or something, and things went awry.

I have another linux box running for when I get the urge to 'tinker' so I don't break my myth setup and upset my better half

-Mike

Thanks Mike- I don't know where I'm going to go from here....mythbrowser is nice, but I like and use myth music a whole lot more. Would an auto-update do the trick I wonder? Not sure how it treats file versions newer than it expects. The dpkg error I'm getting says that both mythmusic and mythgallery exist, but are not initialized....along with mythtv-common, which scares me a bit. If I only had a bit more selfcontrol I'd stop messing with the thing while it works. I blame it on a lack of anything really interesting on tv. My "better half" is rolling with the punches for now, but I think she'll shoot me if I lose all her Law and Order episodes one too many times. Anyway, thanks for the advice....much appreciated. DM

Auto update is the way to go. It's creates a new root partition by brute force, and doesn't pay any attention to what is already there, other than to restore things that you've saved in /myth/backup directory. Search for posts by cesman that mention backup and restore. There was also a thread a couple month back that I was involved in, discussing how to generate lists of all the things you'd customized.

Excellent....I'll research it and give it a whirl. Thanks to all you guys for the input. Over and out.

If some body did this accidentally.. follow these steps. I am able to build myth .17 version after having the same problem ( on a R4V5 knopp install).

1. Remove newly installed myth* libraries.
2. remove all qtlibraries ( dpg -r libqt3* and libqt3c102* )
3. apt-get build-dep mythtv ( Not sure if it is required. Just did it as mentioned in the mythtv main documentation).
4. Now reinstall the myth libraries.

All the add-on modules worked except, gallery and music. I unstalled these libraries and rebuilt them from source.

Note: Do these steps at your own risk. I am not an expert on this.. just mentioning this here as I am able to recover my box.

Thanks.