[mythtv-users] clearing out old, non-existent videos

[Michael T. Dean]

On 09/04/2013 02:34 PM, lists.md301 wrote:
> Thanks for confirming all that--I was thinking of mythmediaserver, but 
> the name just slipped my mind mid-email, and I was too impatient to 
> look it up.
>
> My only personal complication will be having "compatible" revisions of 
> mythtv:  My dedicated machines are on Gentoo, and my NAS is an 
> out-of-date Ubuntu Server (which I use headless).  Understanding the 
> prerequisites, I would need to update Ubuntu and then get an X server 
> installed (not complaining about that, it is what it is).  It might 
> just be easier for me to put Gentoo on it to match my other machines 
> (would help make the uid/gid's identical, which they aren't now), 
> allowing further Portage binary sharing too.  I'll likely be doing a 
> new Gentoo stage 3 tarball root partition anyway on other machines for 
> 0.27 (haven't kept current with Portage, that's just easier than 
> dependency hell).  Just thinking out loud...

You don't need an X server for MythTV.  You need X libraries for Qt and 
MythTV needs Qt.  So, really, you'd only need X libraries on the system.

Then, to configure the remote system, you just use ssh -Y or VNC or ... 
to display the mythtv-setup running on that host on some other host's 
display.

The only reason you'd need an X server on the system is if you plan to 
connect a monitor to that system directly and run X on it.

Mike