[mythtv-users] Endevour OS

[James Linder]

> On Nov 14, 2024, at 22:53, James Linder <jam at tigger.ws> wrote:
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>> On Nov 14, 2024, at 22:48, James Abernathy <jfabernathy at gmail.com> wrote:
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>> On Thu, Nov 14, 2024 at 8:50 AM James Linder <jam at tigger.ws> wrote:
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>>> I’ve been using KDE on endevour OS for my FE machine. One of KDE’s foibles is to disregard the 5x<sp> to enter and exit sticky keys.
>>> I tried xfce which does honour the enter/exit rule but had other issues that KDE does deal with.
>>> 
>>> I built mythtv using Jim’s guide, from AUR with yay.
>>> 
>>> Reverting to KDE and libs had disappeared:
>>> [seagull] /home/jam [500]% mythfrontend
>>> mythfrontend: error while loading shared libraries: libx265.so.209: cannot open shared object file: No such file or directory
>>> 
>>> No wurries, I’ll just rebuild (the gods giggle and nudge one another)
>>> ...
>>> :: Running post-transaction hooks...
>>> (1/1) Arming ConditionNeedsUpdate...
>>> -> Failed to install the following packages. Manual intervention is required:
>>> mythtv-git - exit status 4
>>> 
>>> Unless someone can offer me sage advice I’ll be spending the next day re-installing.
>>> 
>>> Thanks
>>> James
>> 
>> On my EOS/Archlinux FE's I started getting failures of libx254.so.209.
>> There has been some work done on the aur.archlinux.org/mythtv-git in
>> the comments.
>> 
>> On my system where I had installed mythtv-git using yay, I went into
>> .cache/yay/mythtv-git and patched and rebuilt using the guide and
>> patch in the comments.
>> 
>> I've only tested the FE at this point but it works.
> 
> I’ll spend the morrow trying. Thanks
> James
> 

There were a couple of missing steps: it will fail unless you use .cache/yum/mythtv-git (no perl-net-upnp from pacman) but I found your comments to be clear and helpful to the point of no-chance-for-me without them.
FE is working again, so many thanks indeed
James