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== Installing MythTV ==
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==Operating System==
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MythTV is designed to run on Linux operating systems. It is also supported on Mac OS X and FreeBSD. Support on Microsoft Windows is limited.
  
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There are also various MythTV specific distributions if you plan to build a dedicated appliance(s).
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There are many Linux distributions for which there are pre-built packages for MythTV. In the case of distributions where there are no pre-built packages or the pre-built packages are out of date, you can install by building from source.
  
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= Distributions =
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There are some Linux Distributions that are customized just for MythTV. These come with MythTV pre-installed. These will feature a Linux system with some features missing, for example office applications may not be pre-installed as they are not used by MythTV.
  
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== Suggested Approach ==
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If you are starting out with no existing Linux setup, use Xubuntu.
  
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== MythTV Customized Distributions ==
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Below are details of some MythTV customized distributions and Linux distributions.
 
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| Mythbuntu is a MythTV and Ubuntu-based distribution focused upon setting up a standalone MythTV based PVR system. It can be used to prepare a standalone system or for integration with an existing MythTV network. || [http://www.mythbuntu.org/ Mythbuntu Home Page] [https://help.ubuntu.com/community/MythTV Mythbuntu Forums]|| [http://www.mythbuntu.org/downloads Download]
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| Mythbuntu is a MythTV and Ubuntu-based distribution focused upon setting up a standalone MythTV based PVR system. It can be used to prepare a standalone system or for integration with an existing MythTV network.  
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<div style="text-align: left"><br>'''Note:''' Mythbuntu has been retired. See below for details of Xubuntu and Ubuntu.</div>
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| Mythdora is a Fedora and MythTV "All-In-One" DVD. The install will load a pre-configured Fedora 10 installation on your computer as well as install and configure MythTV. There are many extras included with MythDora.  || [http://www.mythdora.com/ Mythdora Home Page] [http://www.mythdora.com/?q=forum Mythdora Forums]|| [http://www.mythdora.com/?q=download Download]
 
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| LinHES (Formerly known as KnoppMyth) includes MythTV and all its official plugins. In addition, LinHES includes Apache, NFS, Samba, and various other daemons. Everything one needs to easily setup a power home entertainment system is included. || [http://knoppmyth.net/index.html LinHES Home Page] [http://mysettopbox.tv/phpBB2/ LinHES Forums]|| [ftp://knoppmyth.net/R6/Current/ Download]
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| LinHES (Formerly known as KnoppMyth) includes MythTV and all its official plugins. In addition, LinHES includes Apache, NFS, Samba, and various other daemons. Everything one needs to easily setup a power home entertainment system is included. || style="width:150px" | [http://www.linhes.org/ LinHES Home Page] [http://forums.linhes.org/ LinHES Forums]|| [http://www.linhes.org/projects/linhes/wiki/Downloads Download]
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|'''MiniMyth'''
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|MiniMyth is a small Linux distribution that turns a diskless computer into a MythTV frontend and slave backend.
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|[http://www.minimyth.org/ Home Page]<br>[http://www.minimyth.org/forum/ Forums]
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|[http://www.minimyth.org/download/ Download]
 
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= Packages =
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== Targeted Linux Distributions ==
  
 
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Xubuntu, Ubuntu
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Obtain Ubuntu by downloading and installing the latest [http://xubuntu.org Xubuntu] or [http://www.ubuntu.com Ubuntu] Desktop LTS version.
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MythTV is available through apt. See the Ubuntu Community [https://help.ubuntu.com/community/MythTV Documentation] for more information.  Daily snapshots for both the stable release (-fixes) and development (-trunk) are available from the [https://launchpad.net/~mythbuntu MythTV PPA] for current releases of Ubuntu.
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|| Developers Target latest LTS and latest Standard
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| style="width:150px" |[http://www.ubuntu.com Ubuntu]
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[https://launchpad.net/~mythbuntu MythTV PPA]
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Fedora
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Fedora, Red Hat, CentOS
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Red Hat
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| There are MythTV packages for Fedora available from RPM Fusion. These repositories are not compatible with each other, so you'll have to take your pick between them. See [[Installing MythTV on Fedora]] for instructions.
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CentOS
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|| Developers Target latest Fedora, previous Fedora and latest CentOS
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| There are MythTV packages for Fedora available from both RPM Fusion and ATRPMs. These repositories are not compatible with each other, so you'll have to take your pick between them. [http://wilsonet.com/mythtv/fcmyth.php Jarod's Fedora Guide] is available for anyone interested in step by step instructions.|| [http://rpmfusion.org/ RPM Fusion]  [http://atrpms.net/ ATrpms]
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| MythTV is available through apt. See the Ubuntu Community [https://help.ubuntu.com/community/MythTV Documentation] for more information.  Daily snapshots for both the stable release (-fixes) and development (-trunk) are available via the [http://mythbuntu.org/auto-builds Mythbuntu Autobuilds] for current releases of Ubuntu & Mythbuntu.|| [http://www.mythbuntu.org/existing-ubuntu Download]
 
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| MythTV is available through apt. See Debian Multimedia for more information.|| [http://www.debian-multimedia.org/ Download]
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| Current method recommended by the developers is to use the provided packaging scripts to build your own packages.
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|| Developers Target current Stable
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|  style="width:150px" |[[Installing_MythTV_on_Debian|Installing MythTV on Debian]]
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Raspbian
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| [https://www.raspbian.org/ Raspbian] is the default operating system for the [https://www.raspberrypi.org/ Raspberry Pi]. Installation packages are available from [[MythTV Light]]
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| Developers Target current Stable
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| [https://www.raspberrypi.org/downloads/raspbian/ Raspbian]
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[[MythTV Light|MythTV Packages]]
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== Other Linux Distributions ==
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| MythTV Packages for openSUSE are available on packman. || [http://packman.links2linux.org/search?scope=name&q=mythtv Download]
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| MythTV Packages for openSUSE are available on packman. ||  style="width:150px" |[http://packman.links2linux.org/search?scope=name&q=mythtv Download]
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| A complete set of MythTV rpms for Mandriva is available through the Penguin Liberation Front. || [http://plf.zarb.org/ Download]
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| The Penguin Liberation Front which hosted packages seems to have shut down. You may be able to use the packages from RPMFusion||  style="width:150px" |[http://rpmfusion.org/ RPM Fusion]
 
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| MythTV Packages are available in the Extra repository. || [http://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/MythTV Download]
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| MythTV Packages are available in the Extra repository. There is a [http://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/MythTV User Guide] || style="width:150px" |[http://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/MythTV User Guide]  
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| Various versions of MythTV for Mac OS X are available, including both frontend and backend and up to version 0.21-fixes and trunk. || [http://www.thesniderpad.com/index.php?option=com_remository&Itemid=42 Download]
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| Various versions of MythTV for Mac OS X are available, including both frontend and backend and up to current release fixes builds and trunk. ||  style="width:150px" | [[MacPorts]]<br>or<br>[http://www.avenard.org/files/mythtv/mac/ avenard.org]
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| MythTV is available for FreeBSD||  style="width:150px" | [https://www.freebsd.org/doc/handbook/mythtv.html MythTV in FreeBSD Handbook]
 
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| Though they are not as completely functional as on other platforms, installer packages are available for MS Windows. || [http://members.iinet.net.au/~davco/ Download]
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| Though progress on the Windows platform is sometimes slow, installer packages are available for MS Windows.||  style="width:150px" | [https://sourceforge.net/projects/mythtvwindows/ MythTV for Windows]
 
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Latest revision as of 14:01, 18 January 2021

User Manual
Introduction
► Hardware Setup
► Operating System
Software Installation
Post Installation Tasks
Configuring MythTV
Configuring Frontend
Using MythTV
► Upgrading MythTV
Advanced Topics
► Support
Knowledge Base

Software-update-available.png This page is up-to-date as of MythTV version 0.28, the current release is 35.0

Operating System

MythTV is designed to run on Linux operating systems. It is also supported on Mac OS X and FreeBSD. Support on Microsoft Windows is limited.

There are many Linux distributions for which there are pre-built packages for MythTV. In the case of distributions where there are no pre-built packages or the pre-built packages are out of date, you can install by building from source.

There are some Linux Distributions that are customized just for MythTV. These come with MythTV pre-installed. These will feature a Linux system with some features missing, for example office applications may not be pre-installed as they are not used by MythTV.

Suggested Approach

If you are starting out with no existing Linux setup, use Xubuntu.

MythTV Customized Distributions

Below are details of some MythTV customized distributions and Linux distributions.

Mythbuntu logo.pngMythbuntu Mythbuntu is a MythTV and Ubuntu-based distribution focused upon setting up a standalone MythTV based PVR system. It can be used to prepare a standalone system or for integration with an existing MythTV network.

Note: Mythbuntu has been retired. See below for details of Xubuntu and Ubuntu.
LinHESlog.png LinHES (Formerly known as KnoppMyth) includes MythTV and all its official plugins. In addition, LinHES includes Apache, NFS, Samba, and various other daemons. Everything one needs to easily setup a power home entertainment system is included. LinHES Home Page LinHES Forums Download
MiniMyth MiniMyth is a small Linux distribution that turns a diskless computer into a MythTV frontend and slave backend. Home Page
Forums 		Download

Targeted Linux Distributions

Ubuntu-logo.png

Xubuntu, Ubuntu

Dialog-accept.png Suggested

Obtain Ubuntu by downloading and installing the latest Xubuntu or Ubuntu Desktop LTS version. MythTV is available through apt. See the Ubuntu Community Documentation for more information. Daily snapshots for both the stable release (-fixes) and development (-trunk) are available from the MythTV PPA for current releases of Ubuntu.

Developers Target latest LTS and latest Standard Ubuntu

MythTV PPA

FedoraLogo.png

Fedora, Red Hat, CentOS

There are MythTV packages for Fedora available from RPM Fusion. These repositories are not compatible with each other, so you'll have to take your pick between them. See Installing MythTV on Fedora for instructions. Developers Target latest Fedora, previous Fedora and latest CentOS RPM Fusion
DebianLogo.png

Debian

Current method recommended by the developers is to use the provided packaging scripts to build your own packages. Developers Target current Stable Installing MythTV on Debian
Raspbian logo.png

Raspbian

Raspbian is the default operating system for the Raspberry Pi. Installation packages are available from MythTV Light Developers Target current Stable Raspbian

MythTV Packages

Other Linux Distributions

OpenSUSELogo.jpg

openSUSE

MythTV Packages for openSUSE are available on packman. Download
MandrivaLogo.png

Mandriva

The Penguin Liberation Front which hosted packages seems to have shut down. You may be able to use the packages from RPMFusion RPM Fusion
ArchLogo.png

Arch Linux

MythTV Packages are available in the Extra repository. There is a User Guide User Guide

Other Operating Systems

AppleLogo.png

Mac OS X

Various versions of MythTV for Mac OS X are available, including both frontend and backend and up to current release fixes builds and trunk. MacPorts
or
avenard.org
FreeBSD.png

FreeBSD

MythTV is available for FreeBSD MythTV in FreeBSD Handbook
WindowsLogo.png

Windows

Though progress on the Windows platform is sometimes slow, installer packages are available for MS Windows. MythTV for Windows
Retrieved from "http://www.mythtv.org/wiki?title=Packages&oldid=65582"