[mythtv] problems with installing xmltv

Cedar McKay mythtv-dev@snowman.net
Sat, 26 Oct 2002 12:22:49 -0700


I would love to be corrected, but I'm pretty sure Tk::Tablematrix is 
only needed if you install the complete xmltv package, including the 
tv_check program. It breaks down like this: xmltv has parts that suck 
down tv listings, parts that manipulate the listings and parts that 
display the listings. Nobody from mythtv told me this, but the xmltv 
developer told me that he thinks the display parts (tv_check and 
tv_pick_cgi) are not needed for mythtv (However, I included tv_pick_cgi 
for the hell of it).  So that means all you need is XML::Twig, 
XML::Writer, Date::Manip, LWP, and if you are in North America 
(tv_grab_na) HTML::Parser. Once I had these xmltv compiled fine for me, 
and despite spitting out a bunch of errors like:

  "Malformed UTF-8 character (1 byte, need 3, after start byte 0xe3) at 
/usr/lib/perl5/vendor_perl/5.8.0/Date/Manip.pm line 6497."

it seems to grab listings fine.



Another hint, again from the xmltv developer Ed Avis: For those of you 
trying to get XML::Twig to compile and are having difficulty, try these 
two things:
1) use the development 3.09 version from 
http://www.xmltwig.com/xmltwig/ rather than 3.08
2)make sure the libexpat version you have is not. 1.95.4. This version 
is broken (and is what ships with Red Hat 8.0), versions both earlier 
and later than 1.95.4 will work.


cheers

cedar