[mythtv-users] SVN Upgrade (FC 4, Myth 18.1)

[Neil]

Hi Shane,

I've just been through exactly this process - I've got a Nova-T DVB card
and wanted to use the dvb-eit feature to automatically populate the EPG.

I followed the steps here: http://mythtv.info/moin.cgi/UpgradeToCvsHowTo

apt-get doesn't work on my FC4 so in order to get the lirc-lib-devel and
lame-devel stuff I used:

yum install lame-devel
yum install lirc-lib-devel

I also didn't have a lot of the other libraries that are required, but
it was simply a case of doing ./configure [options], make, spot the
error, find the appropriate missing library (I found all of the missing
ones on http://rpm.pbone.net/ - its slow, but has everything), download
the tarball, unpack, compile, rinse and repeat ;)

Once the make had successfully completed, "make install" (almost)
finished the job. I say almost, as I got an error that the
libmyth-0.18.o couldn't be found when I tried to run anything. This was
because all the myth libraries had been installed in /usr/local/lib
instead of /usr/lib

To overcome this, either manually copy the libraries, or you can
edit /etc/ld.so.conf 

echo "/usr/local/lib" >> /etc/ld.so.conf
ldconfig -v

should do the trick :o)

In all it took me a few hours to get myth back up and running, but it
was worth the effort - I can now make use of all the new features; my
EPG is automatically populated without the need for any external
processes (tv_grab_uk, XMLTV, or mythfilldatabase) and the latest
version correctly names the recorded files as .mpg instead of .nuv, so
I've been able to stop another job I had running after each recording
that created a sensibly named symlink to the .nuv file :o)

Good luck!

Neil

On Fri, 2005-10-07 at 20:52 -0400, Shane Liesegang wrote:
> I'm really interested in some of the features that I've heard exist in the 
> SVN head branch of Myth (particularly MythUI). I know that installing from 
> SVN has no guarantee of functionality, but I know in other open source 
> projects, many people regularly use nightly builds without any kind of 
> real problems. What's the general opinion of the cutting edge builds? Is 
> it worth it? 
> 
> Also, is there an easy way to upgrade to SVN from 18.1, installed using 
> Jarod's FC4 guide? 
> 
> 	- SJML
> 
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