[mythtv-users] Channel change scripts and Gentoo

Chris Picton chrisp at tangent.co.za
Wed Sep 21 07:56:11 UTC 2005


On Wed, 2005-09-21 at 00:08 -0400, Henry Fleischmann wrote:
> It seems that the Gentoo emerge of Mythtv did not install the contrib 
> directory so I ended up having to do a little searching to find a serial 
> channel change script for my STB. I'm not sure if I have the right one 
> or not but I guess I'll find out tomorrow when the cable co. enables the 
> serial port on the box. I noticed the same thing (no contrib dir) with 
> Xmltv when I tried to run the icon script detailed in the mythtv install 
> doc.
> 
> Does anyone know a way force the emerge to install everything? Should I 
> just compile Mythtv from source? 

You have compiled mythtv from source if you are running gentoo.

If specific files are not installed, you can always go
to /usr/portage/distfiles and uncompress the source to find what you are
looking for.





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