[mythtv-users] Mythtv install on Debian 12 (bookworm)

[James Abernathy]

I'm trying to install mythtv fixes/33 on the latest Alpha of Debian 12
bookworm. I'm pretty sure I can do this with the Build from Source method.

However, the wiki still recommends using the method spelled out at

https://www.mythtv.org/wiki/Installing_MythTV_on_Debian

This wiki page is a little out of date and when I tried to follow it I
changed:
fixes/30 to fixes/33.  I also used the ansible method of getting my
dependencies as I've had that working with building from source.

All the .deb packages got built, the best I can tell.  However, the
Installing Software instructions are causing me to fail.

I tried these instructions from the directory I built from;
/home/jim/build/packaging/deb

dpkg-scanpackages -m . | gzip -c > Packages.gz
echo "deb [trusted=yes] file:///home/jim/build/packaging/deb ./" |
sudo tee /etc/apt/sources.list.d/mythtv.list
sudo apt-get update
sudo apt-get install mythtv

I'm not sure what this does or why it's needed but it created the
mythtv.list file for apt that contained:

deb [trusted=yes] file:///home/jim/build/packaging/deb ./


however sudo apt update produced some errors:

jim at debian-mythtv:~/build/packaging/deb$ sudo apt update
[sudo] password for jim:
Get:1 file:/home/jim/build/packaging/deb ./ InRelease
Ign:1 file:/home/jim/build/packaging/deb ./ InRelease
Get:2 file:/home/jim/build/packaging/deb ./ Release
Ign:2 file:/home/jim/build/packaging/deb ./ Release
Get:3 file:/home/jim/build/packaging/deb ./ Packages
Ign:3 file:/home/jim/build/packaging/deb ./ Packages
Get:4 file:/home/jim/build/packaging/deb ./ Translation-en
Ign:4 file:/home/jim/build/packaging/deb ./ Translation-en
Get:5 file:/home/jim/build/packaging/deb ./ Translation-en_US
Ign:5 file:/home/jim/build/packaging/deb ./ Translation-en_US
Get:3 file:/home/jim/build/packaging/deb ./ Packages
Ign:3 file:/home/jim/build/packaging/deb ./ Packages
Get:4 file:/home/jim/build/packaging/deb ./ Translation-en
Ign:4 file:/home/jim/build/packaging/deb ./ Translation-en
Get:5 file:/home/jim/build/packaging/deb ./ Translation-en_US
Ign:5 file:/home/jim/build/packaging/deb ./ Translation-en_US
Get:3 file:/home/jim/build/packaging/deb ./ Packages
Ign:3 file:/home/jim/build/packaging/deb ./ Packages
Get:4 file:/home/jim/build/packaging/deb ./ Translation-en
Ign:4 file:/home/jim/build/packaging/deb ./ Translation-en
Get:5 file:/home/jim/build/packaging/deb ./ Translation-en_US
Ign:5 file:/home/jim/build/packaging/deb ./ Translation-en_US
Get:3 file:/home/jim/build/packaging/deb ./ Packages [10.7 kB]
Get:4 file:/home/jim/build/packaging/deb ./ Translation-en
Ign:4 file:/home/jim/build/packaging/deb ./ Translation-en
Get:5 file:/home/jim/build/packaging/deb ./ Translation-en_US
Ign:5 file:/home/jim/build/packaging/deb ./ Translation-en_US
Get:4 file:/home/jim/build/packaging/deb ./ Translation-en
Ign:4 file:/home/jim/build/packaging/deb ./ Translation-en
Ign:3 file:/home/jim/build/packaging/deb ./ Packages
Get:5 file:/home/jim/build/packaging/deb ./ Translation-en_US
Ign:5 file:/home/jim/build/packaging/deb ./ Translation-en_US
Get:4 file:/home/jim/build/packaging/deb ./ Translation-en
Ign:4 file:/home/jim/build/packaging/deb ./ Translation-en
Get:3 file:/home/jim/build/packaging/deb ./ Packages
Ign:3 file:/home/jim/build/packaging/deb ./ Packages
Get:5 file:/home/jim/build/packaging/deb ./ Translation-en_US
Ign:5 file:/home/jim/build/packaging/deb ./ Translation-en_US
Get:4 file:/home/jim/build/packaging/deb ./ Translation-en
Ign:4 file:/home/jim/build/packaging/deb ./ Translation-en
Get:3 file:/home/jim/build/packaging/deb ./ Packages
Ign:3 file:/home/jim/build/packaging/deb ./ Packages
Get:5 file:/home/jim/build/packaging/deb ./ Translation-en_US
Ign:5 file:/home/jim/build/packaging/deb ./ Translation-en_US
Get:3 file:/home/jim/build/packaging/deb ./ Packages
Err:3 file:/home/jim/build/packaging/deb ./ Packages
  File not found - /home/jim/build/packaging/deb/./Packages (2: No
such file or directory)
Hit:6 http://security.debian.org/debian-security bookworm-security InRelease
Hit:7 http://deb.debian.org/debian bookworm InRelease
Reading package lists... Done
N: Download is performed unsandboxed as root as file
'/home/jim/build/packaging/deb/./InRelease' couldn't be accessed by
user
'_apt'. - pkgAcquire::Run (13: Permission denied)
E: Failed to fetch file:/home/jim/build/packaging/deb/./Packages  File
not found - /home/jim/build/packaging/deb/./Packages (2
: No such file or directory)
E: Some index files failed to download. They have been ignored, or old
ones used instead.

It did create a Packages.gz file with the command:

dpkg-scanpackages -m . | gzip -c > Packages.gz

Any ideas of where I went wrong?

Jim A
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