[mythtv-users] Installation of the backend without X

[Kai Kuehne]

Hi Graham,

On 3/1/06, Graham Wood <mythtv-users at spam.dragonhold.org> wrote:
> On Wed, March 1, 2006 12:11, Kai Kuehne wrote:
> > Thanks.. this is goold. :-)
> > Sorry, but I have another question... do you remember whether
> > the setup-process (mythtv-setup) needs an X server up and running?
> > If its really needed I think I have to forward X on my client machine.
> That is necessary - a lot of the mythtv-setup steps are in the GUI - about
> the only thing that isn't is the xmltv channel setup....  And that's
> dependant on the location anyway :)
>
> However, the setup progam will happily display directly to another
> machine, so just display it to your frontend - since you need to get the
> backend configured before you can setup the frontend properly :)

Sorry, seems that I didn't get it. Do I need to run mythtv-setup on the server
machine where I want to run mythtv-backend only? Or on the frontend? Or
both?

Sorry, I'm a bit confused right now.

Kai