[mythtv-users] building from source on Archlinux

glen glenb at glenb.net
Thu Dec 1 13:24:25 UTC 2022


On Fri, 2022-12-02 at 02:17 +1300, Stephen Worthington wrote:
> On Thu, 1 Dec 2022 07:28:34 -0500, you wrote:
> 
> > I've been experimenting with Endeavour OS which is Archlinux at its
> > core.
> > There is an AUR package to help build mythtv but it's old and fails
> > on some
> > things, and it only works for v32.
> > 
> > I built from source hoping I have the dependencies right but I
> > noticed that
> > the directory: /usr/share/mythtv/metadata/Television does not
> > exist. so
> > getting metadata never happens.
> > 
> > What is supposed to install that portion of mythtv?
> > 
> > Jim A
> 
> In Ubuntu, those files come from the mythtv-common package.
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i build from source on archlinux and all the metadata works fine. in
the aur you need to make sure you install the 'optional' dependencies.
there is a list there of the perl and python packages that you need to
install. i make no other adjustments other than a patch for recording
iptv. 
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