[mythtv-users] Compiling MythTV on a computer instead of the Xbox

[Justin Nolan]

> Unfortunately, this seems to happen every time a new release comes
> out. Many people, including myself, have to wait until some kind soul
> out there makes the packages available for Xebian-1.1.4. That
> usually works for awhile... but anyone who decide to upgrade to
> MythTV-0.21 later on will be asked for the repos to be put back up.
>
> I would love to figure out how to compile this thing and post the
> instructions for all; so that anyone who tries to "join the 0.21
> party" later on, won't have to hope that someone out there can fire up
> their repo.
>
> I tried to reinstall Xebian-1.1.4 today and compile the packages
> myself, following a few of the wiki-pages out there, but I failed. If
> you do an "apt-get upgrade" with the current version of Xebian-1.1.4
> (pointing to 'sarge' instead of 'stable', apt will attempt to install
> libc6... which seems to be uninstallable. It complains that xdm is
> still running, and if I tell it to turn off xdm, apt-get seems to
> crash... because something can't run. Does anyone know how to tell
> apt not to install libc6?
>
> If I do get MythTV-0.21 successfully compiled on my XBox/Xebian-1.1.4,
> I will post step-by-step instructions.
>
> Thanks all!

I was FINALLY able to satisfy all of the dependencies. Luckily I  
didn't have the same problem with libc6 (xdm stopped, and it continued  
happily). I did have infinite trouble installing liblame-dev.. it  
wanted a different version of liblame0, even though mine was up to  
date. Had to install that one by hand. There were approximately one  
bajillion packages I had to install/upgrade.

I have it compiling now with distcc on two machines. Hopefully all  
goes well. I unfortunately don't have the foggiest clue how to build a  
deb, so I don't know how to share in case I do get things working. If  
someone doesn't beat me to it, i can try my best with some guidance,  
should it be requested.

Justin Nolan

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