[mythtv-users] MythTV wiki page for IguanaIR

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On Sat, 31 Jul 2010 23:26:45 -0500, Craig Huff <huffcslists at gmail.com>
wrote:
> I'm struggling to get off the starting blocks with getting my IguanaIR
> working with Mythbuntu 10.04 and hope someone can fill in the missing
> blanks between the wiki page (thanks to derdave for writing it!) and
> the support wiki page on IguanaWorks website.
> 
> I have been able to add the IguanaWorks deb repos to
> /etc/apt/sources.list.  I tried the command shown on the IguanaWorks
> "Getting Started" wiki page,
>         dpkg -i iguanaIR-0.24-1.i386.deb
> but that didn't work.  Didn't see anything else that would clue me in
> on how to get the iguanaIR driver downloaded, but managed to figure
> out how with synaptic,
>     (fired up synaptic, searched for iguanair, and selected the
> iguanair package only, ignoring the other [two? python bindings and
> sources?] packages)
> and it appears to be installed since /etc/init.d/iguanaIR now exists
> and runs, as does /usr/bin/igdaemon.
> 
> HOWEVER...
> 
> Despite having done the command line three-step dance:
>         sudo apt-get update
>         sudo apt-get build-dep lirc
>         sudo apt-get -b source lirc
> and gotten all sorts of message text flying by on the screen, when I
> execute the next command,
>         sudo dpkg -i
> I get an error message.  It appears this is an incomplete command, so I
> tried
>         sudo dpkg -i lirc
> but that didn't work.  That's problem #1.
> 


STOP RIGHT THERE :-)

What is the output of 'lircd -H ?'






> Also, on the MythTV IguanaIR wiki page it talks about making sure to
> hold back the several lirc related libs/packages to prevent them from
> being re-installed, which makes sense, but I haven't a clue how to do
> that.  That's problem #2.
> 
> I'm hoping once I get past these two humps in the road I can handle
> the rest, having been using MythTV since I set up my first system
> following Jarod Wilson's fine (albeit now dated) webpage on installing
> MythTV with FC6.
> 
> Can anyone tell me how to accomplish the two tasks above?
> 
> TIA,
> Craig.
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