I'd like to compile/install ultrastar-ng on my R5F27 box. According to the sourceforge page for ultrastar-ng, debian systems will require the following packages:

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I just wanna make sure none of these will conflict the functioning of mythtv and was hoping someone knowledgeable could take a quick look at this list and lemme know.

Thanks!

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Retired KM user (R4 - R6.04); friend to LH users.

My understanding...

Most of those are *-dev packages so they only get used
to compile things. They will not be otherwise used by your KM
system.

Two questions come to my mind:
- It may ask you to upgrade other packages too. That is
the potentially dangerous part.
- Will the '*-dev' package match the '*' package version?
It probably needs to or you will have problems. You may
have to force it to use an older *-dev version or (potentially
dangerous) upgrade the * package to a newer version.

The '-s' option for apt-get will tell it to simulate; i.e. just
make a dry run to let you view the messages. I would start
with that to make sure it doesn't want to upgrade something
important.

I would back up my root partition onto say a dvd or my /myth
partition before doing this if it looks dangerous. Restore it
later (with no recordings in the mean time) to fix it. I am
making a wild guess that something like:would allow you to restore with a similar dd command. This
assumes your root is on /dev/hda1

Cliff

graysky
First I would install Synaptic Package Manager this is a graphical interface front end for apt-get. It will give you information about your packages and dependency's that is very hard to get else where. I have installed this on every system since version 4 and never roached a system. What you choose to install with it could.

# apt-get update
# apt-get install synaptic
There will be a link put on your desktop menu system. location has changed from R27 to RC5.5 .

Use the properties button and check dependency's on each package.

If you install one package at a time, after you mark it it will tell you what it is going to do. The few packages i have checked below there is a lot of removing and replacing with other packages going on.

I checked your list against RC5.5 and this is what I have using default repositories settings.

libsdl1.2-dev......................................Installed
libcairo2-dev......................................Installed
librsvg2-dev.......................................Not installed but available
libasound2-dev...................................Installed
libgstreamer0.10-dev..........................Not installed but available
libxml2-dev........................................Installed
libboost-thread-dev.............................Not installed but available
libboost-serialization-dev......................Not installed but available
libboost-program-options-dev...............Not installed but available
libboost-regex-dev...............................Not installed but available
libavcodec-dev....................................Not installed but available
libavformat-dev..................................Not installed but available
libswscale-dev....................................Not installed but available
libmagick++9-dev...............................Not installed but available
gstreamer0.10-fluendo-mp3................Not installed but available
subversion.........................................Not installed but available
help2man...........................................Not installed but available

I would get a old hard drive and install KM for testing. The likelihood of problems is high. The only way you are going to know is try.

TVBox

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TVBox
LinHES R8.6.1

Thanks for the info, guys... sounds like this would be more trouble than it's worth.

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Retired KM user (R4 - R6.04); friend to LH users.