[mythtv-users] New Debian Install

[Mark Paulus]

smartin wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> New to myth tv,
> Dell E510 P4 3.2G
> hauppauge PVR500  
> creative Audigy 2 sound
> nvidea geforce7300LE video
> 1 GB Memory
> MS Remote with RC6 on back
> 
> I am currently running KDE on Debian Sid and have downloaded from 
> Debian-Multimedia.org the required packages. I believe? I have compiled 
> them as they show up in my home directory.
> 
> My question is, Should I dump KDE? How do I start MythTV ?

When you say "downloaded", how did you download them?

For debian systems, you want to add the following to your 
/etc/apt/sources.list file:

deb http://www.debian-multimedia.org stable main
deb-src http://www.debian-multimedia.org stable main

Since you are using a Hauppauge PVR-500, you also should add these:

#
# Some additional ivtv stuff.  However, since this is "sid", not gonna
# use it.
#
deb     http://www.hellion.org.uk/debian sid main
deb-src http://www.hellion.org.uk/debian sid main

Now, go to http://www.ivtvdriver.org, click the Documentation link under 
resources on the left, and then click Debian under IVTV Howto.
The key here is to remember the versions.
Kernel <= 2.5.16 ==> ivtv0.4
Kernel = 2.6.16  ==> ivtv0.6
Kernel = 2.6.17  ==> ivtv0.7
Kernel >= 2.6.18 ==> ivtv0.8

Follow the directions and get the ivtv drivers to work so you get good 
messages when you do dmesg.  The ivtv-users mail list can be helpful 
there with problems.

Once you get ivtv working, then it's on to installing mythtv.

all you need to do is do an
'apt-get install mythtv', and you should get most/all packages 
installed.  Once you get the packages installed, then you can run 
mythtv-setup to configure your cards/listings/etc, following the 
directions from the Mythtv documentation.

If you have actually downloaded the .deb packages to your hard-disk, 
using wget, or whatever, you can install them manually, using
'dpkg --install "*myth*.deb"'.  Doing it that way will help make sure 
your dependencies are satisfied.  However, using apt-get will make sure 
that any other external dependencies are satisfied, and will be MUCH 
easier in the long run.




> 
> This is what shows up in my home directory:
> config                              mythtv_0.20-0.4_all.deb
> config.err                          mythtv_0.20-0.4.diff.gz
> config.h                            mythtv_0.20-0.4.dsc
> config.log                          mythtv_0.20-0.4_i386.changes
> config.mak                          mythtv_0.20.orig.tar.gz
> Desktop                             mythtv-backend_0.20-0.4_i386.deb
> downloads                           mythtv-common_0.20-0.4_all.deb
> libavcodec                          mythtv-database_0.20-0.4_all.deb
> libavformat                         mythtv-doc_0.20-0.4_all.deb
> libmyth-0.20_0.20-0.4_i386.deb      mythtv-frontend_0.20-0.4_i386.deb
> libmyth-0.20-dev_0.20-0.4_i386.deb  tests
> Makefile                            vhook
> mythtv-0.20
> 
> 
> Any pointers I would greatly appreciate.
> 
> TIA
> Scott Martin
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