[mythtv-users] CentOS5.1 mythtv 0.21

George Galt george.galt at gmail.com
Mon Mar 31 19:36:44 UTC 2008


On Mon, Mar 31, 2008 at 2:10 PM, Florin Andrei <florin at andrei.myip.org> wrote:
> Simon and the Threshold wrote:
>  >
>  > I'm currently running a 3 DVB-T tuner system on FC6 with 0.20 Mythtv
>  > using a PS3 as the Frontend over UPNP.
>  >
>  > However since Fedora has made that release obsolete and I quite fancy
>  > some of the 0.21 features (multiple multiplexes etc.) I was wondering if
>  > anyone had any advice with running MythTV under CentOS5.1.
>  > I've been using CentOS at work for sometime and love the fact that it
>  > isn't made obsolete after 12 months and of course its stable and has
>  > only a need for a few updates.
>
>  Enable the ATrpms repo and you should have a good source of MythTV
>  packages via yum on CentOS 5. The repo started carrying Myth 0.21 pretty
>  quickly. Their users list is fairly supportive.
>
>  I am building a dedicated Myth machine, I will use CentOS 5. I am
>  already using that distro for other servers, where long term support is
>  important.
>  On the laptop, though, I use Ubuntu. I'm happy with this combination.
>
>  --
>  Florin Andrei
>
>  http://florin.myip.org/
>
>
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Be aware that you will have to pull a few things in from the "testing"
repo (search the archives for CentOS, atrpms and testing should do
it).  It's nothing serious and becomes obvious when you attempt to
install mythtv-suite.

George


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