<div dir="ltr"><div class="gmail_extra"><div class="gmail_quote">On Wed, Sep 4, 2013 at 2:47 PM, Michael T. Dean <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:mtdean@thirdcontact.com" target="_blank">mtdean@thirdcontact.com</a>></span> wrote:<br>
<blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex"><div class="im">On 09/04/2013 02:34 PM, lists.md301 wrote:<br>
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Thanks for confirming all that--I was thinking of mythmediaserver, but the name just slipped my mind mid-email, and I was too impatient to look it up.<br>
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My only personal complication will be having "compatible" revisions of mythtv: My dedicated machines are on Gentoo, and my NAS is an out-of-date Ubuntu Server (which I use headless). Understanding the prerequisites, I would need to update Ubuntu and then get an X server installed (not complaining about that, it is what it is). It might just be easier for me to put Gentoo on it to match my other machines (would help make the uid/gid's identical, which they aren't now), allowing further Portage binary sharing too. I'll likely be doing a new Gentoo stage 3 tarball root partition anyway on other machines for 0.27 (haven't kept current with Portage, that's just easier than dependency hell). Just thinking out loud...<br>
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You don't need an X server for MythTV. You need X libraries for Qt and MythTV needs Qt. So, really, you'd only need X libraries on the system.<br>
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Then, to configure the remote system, you just use ssh -Y or VNC or ... to display the mythtv-setup running on that host on some other host's display.<br>
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The only reason you'd need an X server on the system is if you plan to connect a monitor to that system directly and run X on it.<div class="HOEnZb"><div class="h5"><br></div></div></blockquote></div><br></div><div class="gmail_extra">
Okay, thanks again for making that distinction--I was being careless with my words. I run X remotely now on my master backend (which also runs frontend) for mythtv-setup stuff (Xming on Windows). I guess I have it stuck in my mind the people over the years complaining about having to install X "stuff" for a headless backends. As I have never done a *buntu myth package install, I don't know what various flavors encompass by default--I certainly expect the dependency checks would pull in all required packages, even on a server version (just that they wouldn't be there by default). Gentoo generally does the right thing dependency wise (assuming use flags are set properly).<br>
<br></div><div class="gmail_extra">I am looking forward to the day when mythtv-setup is replaced by a backend web interface.<br></div></div>