[mythtv-users] Re: MythTV & radio/netradio MythMusic on Debian, etc....

[Duncan Sargeant]

John Morris wrote on Wed August 27, at 05:18 -0500:
> I used the Myth box as my first adventure with Debian so I went the stable
> route.  Seems to be a fair quantity of Debian based Myth users here, any
> reason I shouldn't just make the jump up?  Any major gotchas to watch for?  
> I'd really hate to risk hosing a perfectly running machine to get a better
> MP3 player.....

There are howtos on how to mix distro's too - you can pull some apps
in from testing or unstable and debian will maintain the dependencies
while keeping the rest of your system in stable.  Its a bit complex
though, so I recommend sticking to the one distro.  I run unstable and
find it to be very stable, but I do not update very often (modem link),
and I won't notice because I'm a sysadmin by trade.  'testing' is a good
middle ground.  Follow my advice at your own risk :-)

> Will MythMusic build on Sid and drop into the Myth packages or will I need
> to build everything from source?  At any rate it seems a safe ssumption
> I'd eventually get it all to build on unstable since that is what the
> principal author is running.

No source build required, the unstable binary mythtv packages install
fine.


,dunc