[mythtv-users] Installing projectX from source?

[Michael T. Dean]

Robin Gilks wrote:

>>On 10/25/05, Steve Adeff <adeffs at gmail.com> wrote:
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>>>On Tuesday 25 October 2005 20:36, Robin Gilks wrote:
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>>>>Greetings
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>>>>I'm having a go at mythburn but having problems installing projectx as I use Gentoo so have no nicely packaged system.
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>>>>Looks like projectx was removed from portage about 3 months ago so I wonder is anyone has an ebuild for the latest or a wrapper that will get rid of the 'can't find common-net library' errors.
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>>>projectX is java so download the java sdk and run the command they tell you to run and it will compile.
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>>Java is platform independant - it doesn't need to be compiled
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for different platforms.  If compiled on different platforms, the 
resulting Java bytecode is virtually identical and functionaly 
indistinguishable.  (Just completing the statement you started...)

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>>Just install the Java runtime: http://www.gentoo.org/doc/en/java.xml
>>then download the projectx.jar file and run java -jar projectx.jar
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>But projectx doesn't come as a jar file
>
http://www.doom9.org/software.htm - search for "ProjectX" and click link...

http://www.doom9.org/Soft21/DigiTV/ProjectX_0.90.1.zip

Unzip.  Notice the file "ProjectX.jar" inside...

java -jar ProjectX.jar

Now, read the manual: 
http://www.doom9.org/index.html?/DigiTV/projectx-fullguide.htm

> - it comes as a bunch of .java
>files that are compiled by the sdk into a jar file - that step works fine.
>What I can't get right is where do I put the library files it depends on
>that are created during the 'compile' step. Does java have a seperate
>search path that it uses to hunt out missing bits?
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CLASSPATH, but you don't want to know how to use it.

>Sounds to me like everyone who has suceeded with this is running an rpm
>distro :-((
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I'm not.  I can't even spell RMP.  ;)

Mike