[mythtv] [mythtv-commits] Ticket #13151: Page on "Installing MythTV on Debian" is missing a critical step

[Mike Bibbings]

On 15/10/17 10:15, Steve Goodey wrote:
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> On Friday, 13 October 2017 10:17:24 BST MythTV wrote:
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> > #13151: Page on "Installing MythTV on Debian" is missing a critical step
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> > Reporter: ttabyss@… | Owner: stuarta
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> > Type: Bug Report - General | Status: accepted
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> > Priority: minor | Milestone: needs_triage
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> > Component: Documentation | Version: Master Head
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> > Severity: medium | Resolution:
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> > Keywords: | Ticket locked: 0
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> > ----------------------------------+------------------------------
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> > Changes (by stuarta):
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> >
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> > * owner: => stuarta
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> > * priority: blocker => minor
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> > * status: new => accepted
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> > Comment:
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> > You should be able to update the wiki yourself.
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> > If you do not have an account on the wiki and need
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> > account creation enabled, then please let me know
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> >
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> > Regards
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> > Stuart
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> >
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> > --
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> > Ticket URL: <https://code.mythtv.org/trac/ticket/13151#comment:3>
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> > MythTV <http://www.mythtv.org>
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> > MythTV Media Center
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> Changes now made to wiki. Would appreciate someone making sure the 
> changes look correct.
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> -- 
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> Regards, Steve Goodey
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> Colchester, England
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> mailto://steve@goodey.org
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> Registered Linux User #372670 http://counter.li.org
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> Hello to Jason Isaacs
>

Just done an install on Debian 9 (Stretch) using the instructions on 
wiki (https://www.mythtv.org/wiki/Installing_MythTV_on_Debian)

Used fixes/29 as this is the current release instead of fixes/0.28, 
replace fixes/0.28 with fixes/29

The Dependencies section is not relevant from fixes/29 (did not try 
fixes/0.28)

mythbuntu-control-centre is not built, so is no longer  one of the 
available packages.

sudo echo "deb [trusted=yes] file:///full/path/to/build/packaging/deb 
./" > /etc/apt/sources.list.d/mythtv.list
does not work due to redirection operator (>) you get permission denied, 
the following works:

sudo sh -c "echo 'deb [trusted=yes] 
file:///full/path/to/build/packaging/deb ./' > 
/etc/apt/sources.list.d/mythtv.list"

or even (assumes ~/build was used as given earlier on the wiki page)

sudo sh -c "echo 'deb [trusted=yes] file://$HOME/build/packaging/deb ./' 
 > /etc/apt/sources.list.d/mythtv.list"

After running "sudo apt install mythtv" (standalone combined 
frontend/backend) before running mythtv-setup

I did
  mkdir -p ~/.mythtv
  ln -s /etc/mythtv/config.xml ~/.mythtv/config.xml

which avoids the dreaded cannot login to database message on running 
mythtv-setup (after you have been added to mythtv group), suggest this 
added to the wiki

I also installed mythweb mythnews mythbrowser they all worked out of the 
box.

Note there is a "nasty" bug with Synaptic see 
https://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=864640  which if you 
go to Settings Repositories it creates a bad file /etc/apt/trusted.gpg 
which results in lots of error messages.
Temporary solution is to delete the file /etc/apt/trusted.gpg and don't 
go into Settings Repositories!

Mike
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