[mythtv] New version of mythtv Installation Script

Dwight Hubbard dhubbard at dwightandamy.com
Fri Jul 4 04:03:09 EDT 2003


I've uploaded a newer version of my installation script.  For Redhat
8.0/9.  

This script when it works properly installs and configures a basic
mythtv installation with both the front end and back end configured to
run on the same host.

    The script should install the correct prereq packages for all the
mythtv modules.

    Download, compile and install the desired version of mythtv

    Perform a basic configuration of the mythtv that it installed.


This version has the following changes:

    Fixed a number of bugs, including one in which XMLTV did not install
correctly in some cases.

    Added untested support for Suse and Mandrake systems with apt-get
installed (this will be fixed in a future version to have the installer
do the apt-get installation like it does on Redhat systems now).

    Fixed some other bugs that caused the wrong version of mythtv to
install.

    Added more countries in the xmltv configuration options

    Added the ability to install mythtv .10

    Now installs XMLTV 0.5.14

    Fixed a couple of bugs that caused the installer to terminate in the
middle of an installation.


There are still some rough edges and gotchas with this version.  The
main issues are:
    
    The installer does not create the script to start mythtv at boot.

    The installer deletes any previous mythtv configuration/database,
I.E. it always does a fresh install.

    The installer does not set up any hardware (yet)

The new version is always available at:
    http://mythtv.dwightandamy.com/installer.py

It can be run directly by running the following command from a root
shell, if you have wget installed:
     wget -q -O - http://mythtv.dwightandamy.com/go.sh|sh

There is now a screenshot animated gif on the webpage that has
screenshots of it running for the curious. 
http://mythtv.dwightandamy.com



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