<!DOCTYPE HTML PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD HTML 4.0 TRANSITIONAL//EN"> <HTML> <HEAD> <META HTTP-EQUIV="Content-Type" CONTENT="text/html; CHARSET=UTF-8"> <META NAME="GENERATOR" CONTENT="GtkHTML/3.12.1"> </HEAD> <BODY> eeeerrrr... hang on, this might take a while... On Sat, 2007-11-17 at 16:37 +0000, Robert McWilliam wrote: <BLOCKQUOTE TYPE=CITE> <PRE> On Sat, 17 Nov 2007 16:22:37 +0000 Farran Lee <<A HREF="mailto:fazzy.baboon@ntlworld.com">fazzy.baboon@ntlworld.com</A>> 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 <A HREF="mailto:rmcw@allmail.net">rmcw@allmail.net</A> <A HREF="http://www.ormiret.com">www.ormiret.com</A> vi vi vi - Editor of the beast. </PRE> </BLOCKQUOTE> </BODY> </HTML>