<html><head><meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=us-ascii"></head><body style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; line-break: after-white-space;" class=""><br class=""><div><br class=""><blockquote type="cite" class=""><div class="">On 23 Sep 2021, at 7:26 pm, Jim Abernathy <<a href="mailto:jfabernathy@gmail.com" class="">jfabernathy@gmail.com</a>> wrote:</div><br class="Apple-interchange-newline"><div class=""><br style="caret-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 24px; font-style: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; text-decoration: none;" class=""><span style="caret-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 24px; font-style: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; text-decoration: none; float: none; display: inline !important;" class="">On 9/23/21 6:10 AM, Ken Smith via mythtv-users wrote:</span><br style="caret-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 24px; font-style: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; text-decoration: none;" class=""><blockquote type="cite" style="font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 24px; font-style: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; orphans: auto; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: auto; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; text-decoration: none;" class=""><br class="">Hi All,<br class=""><br class="">I don't want to start a distro war discussion here. Just a practical thread about the state of play with Myth in 2021.<br class=""><br class=""><br class="">Since 2007 I have run various incarnations of MythTV on RedHat derived systems. Various flavours of Fedora and latterly Centos. I chose RedHat as I work with that in my day-job and I'm most familiar with it. The MythTV rpm builds done by Axel Thimm and others have worked well so far....<br class=""><br class="">With the debacle over Centos 8 last year I have been attempting to set up my latest incarnation of MythTV on AlmaLinux, with is a Redhat 8 clone. I've attempted to use the MythTV rpm made available at RPMFusion. As some may have noticed in my other recent thread, there is a MySQL / MariaDB conflict when installing that version. I know I could force the install but generally the installation is really messy.<br class=""><br class="">I raised a Bug at RPMFusion over a week ago and have had no response at all. Not even a "this is duplicate of xyz or you are doing something dumb"<br class=""><br class="">For MythTV > v28 is a RedHat/RPMFusion a viable way forward?<br class=""><br class="">Is anyone else currently using a RedHat derived system?<br class=""><br class="">As I see it there are these options<br class=""><br class="">- Somehow get the RPMFusion rpm sorted out. Not having much luck with that.<br class="">- Find an alternative repository with a current rpm build. I do see MythTV 0.27 for Fedora 19 on ATRPM's but Fedora 19 went EoL in 2015.<br class="">- Build from source on AlmaLinux.<br class="">- Drop RedHat and switch to Ubuntu.<br class=""><br class="">I rather suspect the last option is the only real way forward.<br class=""><br class="">I do appreciate the hours of voluntary effort put in my many to produce a truly excellent system that is head and shoulders ahead of anything else.<br class=""><br class="">Thoughts<br class=""><br class="">:-) Ken<br class=""></blockquote><br style="caret-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 24px; font-style: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; text-decoration: none;" class=""><br style="caret-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 24px; font-style: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; text-decoration: none;" class=""><span style="caret-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 24px; font-style: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; text-decoration: none; float: none; display: inline !important;" class="">I've been using Mythtv on *buntu since it was it's own distro originally. To me it seemed that the main development was on *buntu so I stuck with that. I now use a minimal installation of Ubuntu desktop, add the repository and install. Everything else is just configuration. Always works and I rarely have to ask for help.</span><br style="caret-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 24px; font-style: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; text-decoration: none;" class=""><br style="caret-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 24px; font-style: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; text-decoration: none;" class=""><span style="caret-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 24px; font-style: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; text-decoration: none; float: none; display: inline !important;" class="">I've always had the philosophy to use the OS that is most convenient for what I want to do. I guess that is why I've learned and used so many OS's over the years. I don't care about which is more original to the tree, uses less memory or maybe slightly faster. Just what gets the job done the best and quickest.</span><br style="caret-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 24px; font-style: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; text-decoration: none;" class=""><br style="caret-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 24px; font-style: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; text-decoration: none;" class=""><span style="caret-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 24px; font-style: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; text-decoration: none; float: none; display: inline !important;" class="">As they said in the movies, "Time's money on this job"</span><br style="caret-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 24px; font-style: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; text-decoration: none;" class=""><br style="caret-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 24px; font-style: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; text-decoration: none;" class=""><span style="caret-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 24px; font-style: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; text-decoration: none; float: none; display: inline !important;" class="">That's my opinion anyway.</span><br style="caret-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 24px; font-style: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; text-decoration: none;" class=""></div></blockquote></div><br class=""><div class="">Ken I use SuSE and the pain that went with setting it up, but I have done and it is quick and easy on ubuntu (xubuntu or lubuntu are nice choices)</div><div class=""><a href="https://www.mythtv.org/wiki/Build_from_Source" class="">https://www.mythtv.org/wiki/Build_from_Source</a></div><div class="">admittedly I've done it a few times, but 30 min from start to a working system</div><div class="">advantage is git. IE a recent change for meta data, fixed in 5 min!</div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">For Mike "I've always used debian" other reasons not because debian offers mythtv "medisanol compound"</div><div class="">James</div></body></html>