[mythtv] (OT) gentoo and mythtv

[Mike Payson]

Thanks. I had read the instructions online, but had run into some problems 
(Emerge was giving some error about "Lingua Preferred"-- perhaps this is the 
error you were talking about with MakeMaker?). Using these most recent 
instructions, everything -seems- to be going well (knock on wood...). Emerge 
is progressing, so we'll see tomorrow whether it all worked or not...

On Sunday 29 December 2002 11:42 pm, Tony Clark wrote:
> Try this
>
> Brief instructions.
>
> 1. cd /usr/local
> 2. tar xvfj  mythtv-gentoo-portage.tar.bz2
> 3. edit /etc/make.conf
>     a. USE="mysql alsa" # You will have to emerge qt if it wasn't build
> with "mysql"
>     b. PORTDIR_OVERLAY=/usr/local/portage
> 4. emerge rsync
> 5. emerge ExtUtils-MakeMaker # Not needed if you have ExtUtils-MakeMaker-r4
> already, will cause perl problems if you have an earlier version.
> 5. emerge mythtv
>
> tony
>
> On Monday 30 December 2002 02.57, Mike Payson wrote:
> > I for one would love a simple emerge. Gentoo is the natural platform for
> > MythTV, since it will (at least theoretically) give a bit better
> > performance.
> >
> > On Friday 27 December 2002 03:56 pm, Tony Clark wrote:
> > > I'm just wondering how many people who actually use Gentoo with mythtv
> > > and for that matter how many would like to use Gentoo if mythtv was
> > > easily installed?
> > >
> > > Just for the record, if the numbers support it, mythtv and can be a one
> > > line install much the same as (IMHO better) than Debian.  Gentoo has a
> > > small but dedicated following and I would be happy to include mythtv in
> > > the main Gentoo packages but I don't have the final say in that.  I
> > > believe with support it can be made to happen but I need the help of
> > > users and developers to push the project further.
> > >
> > > I don't know whether a reply here to to my personal email account is
> > > better but please let me know one way or another.
> > >
> > > thanks
> > >
> > > tony

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