[mythtv-users] Advice on Mythtv on SuSE

Khanh Tran khanh at khanh.net
Mon Jun 5 17:44:18 UTC 2006


On 6/5/06, Harry Lipkind <hil at hiltech.com> wrote:
> Hi
>
> I am looking for advice on how to install MythTV on SuSE 10.1 and/or
> Enterprise versions.
>
> I pulled in lame and built it.  I installed MySql from the DVD and as
> far as I can tell it does start when SuSE is booted.  I ran a number of
> tests as the "How-To" says to do and everything came back the way it
> apparently is supposed to.  I pulled in the MythTV source code and built
> the program.  I have my tuner card in the system and put the firmware in
> the right directory.
>
> Questions:
>
> I think that MySql is running but when I give the command to do the
> database creation (which is named mythconverg I believe) all I get back
> is a command prompt.  Where is the database put when it is created -
> and/or how should I do things.
>
> If at the moment I bring mythtv up, I get a series of error messages
> that a database can't be found.  Is the stuff in the paragraph above my
> problem?
>
> Any other advice you folks have will be greatly appreciated.
>
> Thank you
>
> Harry Lipkind
>
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I'd suggest going back to SuSE 10.0.  There were a lot of application
security changes (apparmor) in 10.1.  Also, SuSE went with newer
version of things like MySQL and GCC which are tricky to get all the
pieces to compile and work well together with MythTV...


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