[mythtv-users] Which Distro?

Alexander Varakin avarakin at optonline.net
Fri Apr 8 02:08:12 UTC 2005


There are myth packages for Debian out there, so installing myth is just 
matter of 
apt-get install mythtv
It will take care of all dependencies.
I remember a hell I went through while installing myth on Mandrake...

On Thursday 07 April 2005 20:55, gLaNDix (Jesse Kaufman) wrote:
> Howard Cokl wrote:
> > I'm a slack guy, have been since about 1998.
>
> yup, i have been since ... well, i'm not sure which version i started
> with ... either slackware 6 or 7 ...
>
> > I have
> > gotten myth working on slackware (mythtv 0.16 and
> > slack 9.1) and have tried getting mythtv 0.17 working
> > with 10.1, 10, and 9.1 using 2.6.11, currently have it
> > running on slack 9.1, 2.6.11.6.
>
> hmm, i still haven't gotten 2.6.x to work ... really annoying me ... i
> get no input devices and no network (probably a lot of other things
> don't work, but i can't tell, since i can't ssh in or login at the
> console! :P)
>
> > But, and it hurts me
> > to say this, I did install FC3 according to Jarod's
> > guide and it did work and the performance was better.
>
> wow, that really surprises me ... esp with both on a 2.6 kernel ...
>
> > Don't know why but I plan on finding out since I don't
> > like rpm based systems and dependency checking, <rant>
> > sorry you can't rpm -e sendmail because it is depended
> > on by a bunch of other crap that we decided to install
> > for you ... </rant>.
>
> hehehe ... exactly!!
>
> > Anyway there is some guy
> > maintaining a slackware mythtv package, haven't tried
> > it, but here it is http://www.linuxpackages.net/pkg_details.php?id=6144
>
> all the versions of myth i've installed (i think i started 2 or 3
> releases ago) have been by hand and i definitely prefer it ... call it
> the over-anal-ness of a network admin :P
>
> thx for the info!
> -g-
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