[mythtv-users] building from source on Archlinux

James Abernathy jfabernathy at gmail.com
Thu Dec 1 13:33:29 UTC 2022


On Thu, Dec 1, 2022 at 8:24 AM glen <glenb at glenb.net> wrote:

> 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.
> _______________________________________________
> mythtv-users mailing list
> mythtv-users at mythtv.org
> http://lists.mythtv.org/mailman/listinfo/mythtv-users
> <http://email.mg.glenb.net/c/eJxNjsEOwiAQRL-m3GxYCtvtgYMX_4PC0jYBNAVN_HurMdFkLvNmJhm2gDhNEiSOIlgfXTBabNaRH3QwjHIGLZVRWnuMkiQ6mmk2TMAByPTeZU6dlkviMveFm1gtjwDMKiISeYjoFUXDAZXTWgGNItm1tVs3nDt1OZS22mqfn21tj_66LwfKbkvZlW-4lXh9w0_jdK-8V7Hbf3s8-O1fyItC-w>
> http://wiki.mythtv.org/Mailing_List_etiquette
> <http://email.mg.glenb.net/c/eJxFjb0OwiAURp-mbBIoFwoDg4uTPoPh57Yl0qrtrca3t4mDyTednJMPvTTGOSGF6Vj2qQ9ZAys-2KQgazQiShCtbgGS6YUVJthoo0YrMUureQoT1gbEUHGOfEZio8-glbAp6uQiphZNjiChM32XrHISWPUj0aNRx6Y97XuXW-HTh0Z68fsy7OQSSi3zcD2Xla5I5bkhEbLF_6zDtuKy7q__6Ave0T8T>
> MythTV Forums: https://forum.mythtv.org
> <http://email.mg.glenb.net/c/eJxFjDkKwzAQAF9jdRG7slZHoSJN_qFjZQd8BFkO5PcxpAhMMwwMBzTGe0AwVpSQayykxTNEl0ddiA0k1KBIaZ1NBQcmuuQSsUMu6EjmuPIyaJgW3pLcuIs55Dx6tJhdqjHaiBBVVZaRmCh5Z8US5t5fxzDeB_W4qHs7V7l--tzfcm-TaOEnt_Pgdlz7f_sCrIg2jg>
>
> 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.
>

I'll look into the optional dependencies, but one of the required
qt5-webkit fails to install with a 404.  Wonder what changed?

Jim A
-------------- next part --------------
An HTML attachment was scrubbed...
URL: <http://lists.mythtv.org/pipermail/mythtv-users/attachments/20221201/f8b6ea47/attachment.htm>


More information about the mythtv-users mailing list