Author: Christian Marillat Date: To: dmo-discussion Subject: Re: possible dependency problem with mythtv (and chroot questions)
Ross Boylan <ross@???> writes:
> When I tried to install mythtv in a chroot running Debian testing the
> first problem was
> Preconfiguring packages ...
> /tmp/mythtv-common.config.320363: 21: /tmp/mythtv-common.config.320363: pwgen: not found
> mythtv-common failed to preconfigure, with exit status 127
>
> I had requested that only dependencies, not recommends, be installed.
> This suggests that mythtv-common is missing a pre-dependency on the
> pwgen package. pwgen was installed by the end.
Packages in Pre-Depens is always a bad idea, packages should be
installed even in the Depends field.
Otherwise the best to do install tests is to use Virtualbox if your CPu
isn't too old.
