[mythtv-users] howIdidit: Debian+Myth from scratch using mdz's pkgs

Dennis Lou dlou99 at yahoo.com
Wed Apr 9 05:24:37 UTC 2003


Bruce Markey wrote:
>Dennis Lou wrote:
>> Here's some notes I took during my install.
>> Comments?  Suggestions?
>
>Yes, one of the strengths of MythTV has been the
outstanding
>documentation that Robert has organized by pulling
together
>information from numerous sources. There are hints
that you,
>in fact, followed suggestions from this
documentation.

Well, these really are notes I took along the way, or
at least they
started out as such (I gave them to a friend who had
trouble understanding
them so I tried to clarify a bit).  It wasn't meant to
be a guide.

>If you found more information or can clarify
confusing info
>in the docs, you should contribute your additions,
suggestions
>and corrections to the documentation that is included
in the
>distribution. Storing your information on a separate
website
>may not in the best interests of new users of MythTV.

If there was anything that was confusing, it was that
the documentation
seemed mainly geared towards those building Myth from
the sources
and the Debian packages seemed to need a bit of
undocumented groundwork
prior to installing/running.  Doing an "apt-get
install mythtv" on
a minimal base Debian installation wasn't very
productive for me!

>Clearly you believe this information can be useful so
please
>consider giving something back to the project by
contributing
>to the documentation so that your advice can be
accessible
>to the intended audience.

As for the me believing the information can be useful,
I had never really
considered widespread distribution until I read Tom's
requests for
"How I Did It" notes.  The comments and suggestions I
was soliciting
was on how I could achieve a better installation
and/or configuration,
not on how to improve what I wrote.  As for being
added to Robert's docs
(he's the guy that wrote the HOWTO on mythtv.org,
right?), I'm not sure
that's the right place.  It seems that a lot of what I
went through was
specific to mdz's Debian packages.  An installation
procedure specific to
those packages would probably be better accompanying
those packages, or
perhaps contained in the package.

-Dennis

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