[mythtv-users] Installing only mythfrontend on Ubuntu

Jim Stichnoth stichnot at gmail.com
Mon Jan 3 23:15:38 UTC 2011


On Mon, Jan 3, 2011 at 2:59 PM, Harry Devine <lifter89 at comcast.net> wrote:
> My main PC is running Ubuntu 10.04, and it doesn't have any Myth stuff on it
> at all.  I'd like to install just mythfrontend on it so I can, when I'm in
> there using it (or my kids for that matter) run it manually to watch
> recordings.  I don't intend to have mythfrontend run automatically at
> startup or anything like that.
>
> Can this be done?  I assume it can, but I thought I'd check.  I tried
> installing it manually by running 'sudo apt-get install mythfrontend', but
> it couldn't find mythfrontend.
>
> Any help is appreciated.
> Harry

Maybe "apt-get install mythtv-frontend"?  BTW, having the
backend-related binaries around probably takes only 10-20MB more disk
space than frontend-only, FWIW.

Jim


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