[mythtv-users] Firestick 4K installation failing in Fedora

[James Abernathy]

On Fri, Sep 30, 2022 at 10:07 PM Scott Theisen <scott.the.elm at gmail.com>
wrote:

> On 9/30/22 20:35, Peter Bennett wrote:
>
>
> On 9/30/22 12:27, James Abernathy wrote:
>
>
>
> On Thu, Sep 29, 2022 at 3:31 PM Peter Bennett <pb.mythtv at gmail.com> wrote:
>
>>
>> On 9/28/22 09:54, Peter Bennett wrote:
>> >
>> > On 9/28/22 06:40, John Pilkington wrote:
>> >> Hi:  I haven't been using my Firestick 4K recently because I no
>> >> longer have an audio-capable HDMI display, but I wanted to see how it
>> >> would work with recordings made by recent master from just one of six
>> >> DVB-T muxes.
>> >>
>> >> In the past I installed the downloaded builds using adb;  this still
>> >> worked for leanfront but now fails for the standard frontend.  It
>> >> looks as if the Fedora (35) version of android-tools is outdated, and
>> >> I haven't yet had success with other suggestions from google.
>> >>
>> >> {{{
>> >>
>> >> [john at HPFed Downloads]$ adb install -r
>> >> 20220830-leanfront-release-v0-372-g71a3c49.apk
>> >> Performing Streamed Install
>> >> Success
>> >> [john at HPFed Downloads]$ adb install -r
>> >> mythfrontend-20220907-arm-v33-Pre-854-gecc24f1e15.apk
>> >> Performing Streamed Install
>> >> adb: failed to install
>> >> mythfrontend-20220907-arm-v33-Pre-854-gecc24f1e15.apk: Failure
>> >> [INSTALL_FAILED_OLDER_SDK: Failed parse during installPackageLI:
>> >> /data/app/vmdl152075533.tmp/base.apk (at Binary XML file line #8):
>> >> Requires newer sdk version #29 (current version is #25)]
>> >> [john at HPFed Downloads]$
>> >>
>> >> }}}
>> >>
>> >> This is just an FYI.   I'll perhaps try it in kubuntu.
>> >>
>> >> John P
>> >> _______________________________________________
>> >>
>> > It looks like a problem with the package. The fire stick 4K has API
>> > version 25 and it looks like the package is built to require version
>> > 29. Perhaps a newer version of QT has caused this change in the build.
>> > I will look into it.
>> >
>> > Peter
>> >
>> This is now fixed and new 32bit and 64bit packages have been uploaded to
>> orangedox
>>
>> Peter
>>
>
> Did you have to do anything special not included on the README.md for
> android on github for building master?
>
> I checked out master and build arm64 libs fine, but apk failed.  I can use
> orangedox files for now, but wanted to make sure I can build my own if ever
> necessary.
>
> partial log below:
>
> make[3]: Entering directory
> '/home/jim/workdir/packaging/android/build64/mythtv/external/FFmpeg'
> tests/Makefile:245: tests/fate/webm-dash-manifest.mak: No such file or
> directory
> make[3]: *** No rule to make target 'tests/fate/webm-dash-manifest.mak'.
> Stop.
> make[3]: Leaving directory
> '/home/jim/workdir/packaging/android/build64/mythtv/external/FFmpeg'
> make[2]: *** [Makefile:32: FFmpeg-all] Error 2
> make[2]: Leaving directory
> '/home/jim/workdir/packaging/android/build64/mythtv/external'
> make[1]: *** [Makefile:66: external] Error 2
> make[1]: Leaving directory
> '/home/jim/workdir/packaging/android/build64/mythtv'
> make: *** [Makefile:36: apk] Error 2
>
> Jim A
>
> The basic error was I leftout the SDK version which should be 21 for fire
> stick. In trying to fix that I hit the mariadb problem.
>
> There was an error building the mariadb lib. After getting the solution
> from David Hampton I committed the fix for that yesterday.
>
> Unfortunately there is a shortcoming in the build script for the libs. If
> any libs fail to build it carries on as if nothing was wrong, but you have
> a missing library. Check if the mariadb library built. If not, get the
> latest from packaging and build the libs again.
>
> The error above is not the one I saw, I had an error complaining about
> mariadb.so missing.
>
> Peter
>
>
> Is your mythtv master checkout in a bad state?  i.e. does that file
> exist?  (It should.) Both the referenced Makefile line and that file are
> from the FFmpeg 5.1 merge.
>
> Regards,
>
> Scott
>

Thanks, I rm -rf workdir and started over with a fresh mythtv and packaging
git clone and didn't checkout anything so I should be on master, right.

This time it was built and I have a .apk.

Jim A
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