[mythtv-users] installing mythic without starting with mythbuntu 16.04?

[Jim Abernathy]

On Nov 15, 2017, at 1:53 PM, Mike Bibbings <mike.bibbings at gmail.com<mailto:mike.bibbings at gmail.com>> wrote:

On 15/11/17 17:58, Jim Abernathy wrote:
In the past I’ve always started with Mythbuntu to build a mythtv systems.  Today I started with a fresh install of Xubuntu 16.04.3 and added the repositories for mythtv per the wiki.

The first time I ran the mythtv backend setup I got into that loop on the pick language screen that I’ve seen so many times.  I’ll figure it out, but I would think a fresh install on a freshly built Xubuntu system would work out of the box.

Is there a blog somewhere where someone has figured it out and documented it in details.  I’m looking for something like my blog that I did for Mythbuntu 16.04 install. (http://mythtvinstall.blogspot.com/2016/12/how-to-install-mythbuntu-16041.html)

Jim A




The problem I have found is that on first run of mythtv-setup it uses a default password for the mythconverg database of 'mythtv', which is not what was setup when mythtv-backend was installed, which sets a random 8 character alpha-numeric in /etc/mythtv/config.xml.

I usually do the following before running mythtv-setup for the first time:
 mkdir -p ~/.mythtv
 ln -s /etc/mythtv/config.xml ~/.mythtv/config.xml
Mike

That worked.  I did a fresh Xubuntu install and added the repository, the mythtv package, and mythbuntu control center. I did your ln command after I updated the software and rebooted.  When I ran mythtv backend setup, it worked.

Jim A

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