[mythtv-users] Will compiling&installing from source destroy my current mythtv settings ?

Stef Coene stef.coene at docum.org
Mon Oct 3 19:08:25 UTC 2005


On Monday 03 October 2005 20:58, Robert Rozman wrote:
> Hi,
>
> I'm using mythtv under Debian Sarge. Since there are .deb files for quite
> some plugins missing - I'd like to compile them from source....
>
> I have mythtv installed and setup from binaries. I certainly don't wamt to
> loose those video card and channel settings. Can I compile and install and
> not loose existing settings ?
Why not?  All settings are saved in a mysql database.  If you want to play it 
save, back up the database.  It is possible that a new version of mythtv will 
update the data in the database.


Stef


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