Hi based on many favourable comments about ubuntu I decided to try it, ummm quite painfull:
I downloaded 6.06 server and installed. apt-get install ubuntu-desktop repeat to recover missing, this time all works: X + gnome etc apt-get (can't remember name) install development-package apt-get qt3*, discard, app-get the relevant qt3 stuff, by cut and paste apt-get install subversion apt-get install lame*, discard, apt-get the lame libs svn co mythtv modules make fails needing Xv libs (no lXv) OK clearly this is painfull: How do you get a list of packages and meta-packages that you can apt-get? How do you find out WHAT is in a package. EG I got various lame bits before I got the development libraries needed to build mythtv? (rpm -ql) How do I find (in rpm speak) whatprovides -lXv ? All of the apt-get info that I found, I googled for, or apt-get a wildcard, then decline the update, but scan the output for hints on names. Surely there's a better way. James Oh by the way, I'm trying to build mythtv from svn. -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group Mailing List - http://slug.org.au/ Subscription info and FAQs: http://slug.org.au/faq/mailinglists.html
