[mythtv-users] fresh install of MythTV v29 on Xubuntu 18.04

James Abernathy jfabernathy at gmail.com
Sun Oct 28 19:24:45 UTC 2018


> On Oct 28, 2018, at 1:27 PM, Mike Bibbings <mike.bibbings at gmail.com> wrote:
> 
> On 28/10/2018 17:16, James Abernathy wrote:
>> I got this done, but noticed some new issues related to 18.04.  
>> 
>> 1. my user name does not get added to the group mythtv so I had to do that manually.
>> 2. maybe because of #1, config.xml didn’t get copied to /home/jim/.mythtv.
>> 
>> Minor, but not an issue with 16.04 and mythtv install
>> 
>> Jim A
>> 
>> 
>> 
> 
> Has been reported (8 Apr 2018) see trac ticket https://code.mythtv.org/trac/ticket/13256 <https://code.mythtv.org/trac/ticket/13256>
> comment 4 (https://code.mythtv.org/trac/ticket/13256#comment:4 <https://code.mythtv.org/trac/ticket/13256#comment:4>) gives the workround i.e.
> 
> run in a terminal session: sudo adduser $USER mythtv
> 
> 
> 

Thanks,

Glad it’s already known.  If you’ve installed mythtv in the past it’s easy to know when it’s missed a step.  It didn’t ask me to logout, so I looked around and found what was missing. I’ll add the quick fix to my instructions I keep locally and on my blog.

Jim A

> Mike
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