[mythtv-users] Installing only mythfrontend on Ubuntu

[Jim Stichnoth]

On Mon, Jan 3, 2011 at 3:21 PM, Greg Estabrooks <greg at phaze.org> wrote:
>> 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.
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>  1.6Meg with debug symbols stripped out, and 6meg with them left in... so in otherwords not worth the effort to avoid installing it :)

Well, I was assuming you also need to account for mythcommflag,
mythfilldatabase, mythjobqueue, mythpreviewgen, mythtranscode,
libmythhdhomerun, and some others I've surely missed, hence the
healthy padding, but the conclusion is the same. :)

Jim