MythTV in Debian

[Herbie Herbert <technowombat@yahoo.com>]

Turns out setting up mythtv under debian is fairly easy. Even easier if you run an 'unstable'
system. If you have an unstable system, you can add

deb ftp://ftp.nerim.net/debian-marillat/ unstable main
deb http://dijkstra.csh.rit.edu/~mdz/debian unstable mythtv

to /etc/apt/sources.list
and then run

apt-get update && apt-get install mythtv

I run a 'testing' system, which I believe will become the new debian 'stable' fairly soon. So I
could not use the binaries, as they were built against newer libraries than I had, compiling from
source was fairly easy. I added

deb ftp://ftp.nerim.net/debian-marillat/ unstable main
deb-src http://dijkstra.csh.rit.edu/~mdz/debian unstable mythtv

to /etc/apt/sources.list

then ran 

apt-get update

then I ran

apt-get build-dep mythtv

which downloads all the packages that mythtv is dependent on. I had a conflict because I had
installed my own version of liblame so I had to run

apt-get remove liblame0-dev

and then re-ran

apt-get build-dep mythtv

then ran 

apt-get -b source mythtv

of it went, made all the binary packages I needed, which I installed with

dpkg-i *mythtv*deb

Then run

mythtv-setup

I can't really go much further with it until I get a real tuner card, but it wasn't too bad a
process.

herbie

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