[mythtv-users] Anyone Using LIRC on CentOS 6.6?

[Kirk Bocek]

On 6/3/2015 9:30 AM, Kirk Bocek wrote:
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> On 6/3/2015 9:22 AM, Alec Leamas wrote:
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>> The upgrade of lirc from 0.8.6 to 0.9.0 is pretty big; it was in this 
>> time drivers were moved from lirc to the kernel. So, the kernel 
>> version you are using is part of the scenario.
>>
>> You probably need to start hunting this down using mode2(1) as 
>> described in http://lirc.org/html/configuration-guide.html.
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>> Note that 0.9.0 is a really old version of lirc, lagging four years 
>> and two major versions behind the last release. Much of the stuff in 
>> the link above is geared towards never versions, but the basic 
>> workflow should be the same.
>>
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> I get that. Trying to compile 0.9.2 is a possible route. Checking the 
> LIRC site, looks like I need Python3. Not sure it's available for 
> CentOS 6.
>
> I was running LIRC 0.8.6 up until now. I don't care how old it is as 
> long as it works.
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Ah, discovered the CentOS Software Collections Repository:

http://wiki.centos.org/AdditionalResources/Repositories/SCL

Which includes Python 3.3

Which is required according to LIRC:

http://www.lirc.org/html/install.html

*Maybe* doable.