Ubuntu-7.04 Source Install

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Nigel had to do some test builds on LinuxPPC, and thus had to install Linux on one of his G4 PowerBooks. That step was hard enough⁽¹⁾ but then finding out the names of the extra required packages was a bit of a challenge. Hopefully this will save someone a few hours of trial and error:

sudo apt-get install mysql-client
sudo apt-get install qt3-dev-tools
sudo apt-get install libqt3-mt-mysql
sudo apt-get install libqt3-mt-dev
sudo ln -s /usr/lib/libqt-mt.so.3 /usr/lib/libqt-mt.so

sudo apt-get install g++
sudo apt-get install libfreetype6
sudo apt-get install libfreetype6-dev

sudo apt-get install liblame0
sudo ln -s /usr/lib/libmp3lame.so.0.0.0 /usr/lib/libmp3lame.so
sudo apt-get install liblame-dev

sudo apt-get install libxv-dev
sudo apt-get install libxxf86vm-dev
sudo ln -s /usr/lib/libX11.so.6     /usr/lib/libX11.so
sudo ln -s /usr/lib/libXext.so.6    /usr/lib/libXext.so
sudo ln -s /usr/lib/libXv.so.1      /usr/lib/libXv.so
sudo ln -s /usr/lib/libXxf86vm.so.1 /usr/lib/libXxf86vm.so

sudo apt-get install subversion

svn co http://svn.mythtv.org/svn/trunk/mythtv
cd mythtv

./configure --enable-proc-opt
# ignore these lines: "cat: /etc/ld.so.conf.d/*.conf: No such file or directory"
make

For a SVN trunk build, I also had to install Qt 4.4 and do these commands before the configure:

QTDIR=/home/nigel/qt-x11-opensource-src-4.4.1
QMAKESPEC=${QTDIR}/mkspecs/linux-g++
PATH=${QTDIR}/bin:${PATH}
export QTDIR QMAKESPEC PATH

^1. Ubuntu 7.04 powerpc isn't in the official repositories, Nigel had to BitTorrent it. Google for the file ubuntu-7.04-desktop-powerpc.iso.torrent