[mythtv-users] Unable to install MythTV on UbuntuMATE Linux 16.04
James Linder
jam at tigger.ws
Mon May 14 02:31:06 UTC 2018
> On 13 May 2018, at 8:00 pm, mythtv-users-request at mythtv.org wrote:
>
>> And, in the course of my writing this last part, mythtv has installed.
>>
>> Now, to get it working...
>>
>
>
> And, to get it working, upon loading it, I get a message saying that I
> have to join a mythtv group.
>
> Then it tells me that, having joined the group, I have to reboot the
> computer, or, to log out and then start a new login session..
>
> And I then get a window telling me that "No running KDM.Gnome.XFCE" so
> I do not know whether, after all of that, it will run with MATE.
The funnies you attribute to mythtv are infact foibles of the packager.
I have a BE FE machine that has NO mythtv user or group and it runs an xfce desktop. That is how I choose to run mythtv.
I promise that mate would run mythtv just as I want (but I’d find mate a PIA)
James
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