[mythtv-users] cannot get mkiconmap.pl to download icons

[Chris Weisiger]

SF Basilix wrote:

>Hello,
>
>I seem to be having a problem when attempting to
>download the station icons for mythtv - running
>version 0.19 on Fedora Core 4. Every time I run the
>perl script mkiconmap.pl (tried it as both the mythtv
>user and root) it just keeps returning the following:
>
>$ mkiconmap.pl
>Calling tv_grab_na_icons...
>
>Postal Code: <I enter my 5 digit postal code>
>Invalid Postal Code, try again
>
>I can put in any postal code, and it just returns the
>same error. Since I used yum to install mythtv, I also
>downloaded the source code and ran the one that is in
>the contrib directory - still same thing.
>
>I do have xmltv installed (xmltv-0.5.43-66.rhfc4.at)
>and have both the firewall and selinux disabled.
>
>Am I missing some packages or settings in order to do
>this? Zap2It found my postal code fine when I
>registered on the website and found my cable provider
>with no issues, but for some reason this script keeps
>saying invalid postal code?
>
>Thanks in advance!
>SF
>
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Not that it would help you but I'm having the same issue. Ive had the 
issue for a while
and trying when i can to figure out how to fix the issue. It did work at 
one point but it has
failed ever since.