[mythtv-users] Which Distro?

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On Apr 7, 2005 7:08 PM, Alexander Varakin <avarakin at optonline.net> wrote:
> There are myth packages for Debian out there, so installing myth is just
> matter of
> apt-get install mythtv
> It will take care of all dependencies.
> I remember a hell I went through while installing myth on Mandrake...
> 
> On Thursday 07 April 2005 20:55, gLaNDix (Jesse Kaufman) wrote:
> > Howard Cokl wrote:
> > > I'm a slack guy, have been since about 1998.
> >
> > yup, i have been since ... well, i'm not sure which version i started
> > with ... either slackware 6 or 7 ...
> >
> > > I have
> > > gotten myth working on slackware (mythtv 0.16 and
> > > slack 9.1) and have tried getting mythtv 0.17 working
> > > with 10.1, 10, and 9.1 using 2.6.11, currently have it
> > > running on slack 9.1, 2.6.11.6.
> >
> > hmm, i still haven't gotten 2.6.x to work ... really annoying me ... i
> > get no input devices and no network (probably a lot of other things
> > don't work, but i can't tell, since i can't ssh in or login at the
> > console! :P)
> >
> > > But, and it hurts me
> > > to say this, I did install FC3 according to Jarod's
> > > guide and it did work and the performance was better.
> >
> > wow, that really surprises me ... esp with both on a 2.6 kernel ...
> >
> > > Don't know why but I plan on finding out since I don't
> > > like rpm based systems and dependency checking, <rant>
> > > sorry you can't rpm -e sendmail because it is depended
> > > on by a bunch of other crap that we decided to install
> > > for you ... </rant>.
> >
> > hehehe ... exactly!!
> >
> > > Anyway there is some guy
> > > maintaining a slackware mythtv package, haven't tried
> > > it, but here it is http://www.linuxpackages.net/pkg_details.php?id=6144
> >
> > all the versions of myth i've installed (i think i started 2 or 3
> > releases ago) have been by hand and i definitely prefer it ... call it
> > the over-anal-ness of a network admin :P
> >
> > thx for the info!
> > -g-
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Gentoo
There is an ebuild for 0.17.

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Tim
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