[ATrpms-users] Re: Installing x86 myth packages on an x86_64 distro

[Axel Thimm]

On Sun, Jun 12, 2005 at 07:17:05PM -0700, Todd Greene wrote:
> Hi Axel,
> 
> Great work at ATrpms!  Your collection of RPMs has saved me thousands
> of hours of frustration and searching.

Thanks. :)

> I recently bought a AMD64 and installed FC3 for x86_64 for my main
> Mythtv server.  For some reason, I'm getting very poor framerates and
> 100% CPU usage with HDTV (I've had slower pentium machines work
> flawlessly).  I suspect this is due to the lack of mmx that I've seen
> you mention in discussion threads.
> 
> Is it possible to install the myth x86 packages on an x86_64 distro? 

Yes, that's possible.

> I've tried downloading the myth packages from ATrpms, but they don't
> install using "rpm -Uvh".  Actually, it looks like they're installing
> ok, but then I get:
> > rpm --query *1394*
>    package libraw1394_5-0.10.1-3_4.rhfc3.at.i386.rpm is not installed
> 
> Am I missing something?

You need to quote *1394* to prevent shell expansion and also to add
the -a option to rpm. E.g.

rpm -qa '*1394*'

Or better

rpm -qa --qf '%{name}-%{version}-%{release}@%{arch}\n' '*1394*'

-- 
Axel.Thimm at ATrpms.net
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