[mythtv-users] building mythtv from source on Debian 11 Bullseye/Linux Mint Debian Edition

[Bill]

On 7/8/22 18:47, James Abernathy wrote:
> I just built Mythtv from source on Linux Mint Debian Edition 5 (LMDE5) which is based on Debian 11.
> 
> I first used Ansible to install the dependencies. I thought everything was fine until I got errors on the Metadata lookup and started investigating.  I was missing dependencies.
> 
> I then used the Build Dependencies for version 32without Ansible and just installed that list via apt and then rebuilt mythtv.  Now I have the metadata.
> 
> So I guess Ansible is out of date for LMDE5 or isn't isn't identifying correctly. This is what ansible_lsb shows
> 
>          "ansible_lsb": {
>              "codename": "elsie",
>              "description": "LMDE 5 (elsie)",
>              "id": "Linuxmint",
>              "major_release": "5",
>              "release": "5"
> 
> Jim A

This is better, and run from wherever your MythTV Ansible files live:

for FILTER in ansible_distribution ansible_distribution_major_version ansible_os_family ansible_pkg_mgr
do    ansible --inventory=hosts --module-name=setup --args="filter=${FILTER}" localhost
done

-- 
Bill