[mythtv-users] Installation of the backend without X

Kevin Kuphal kuphal at dls.net
Wed Mar 1 14:22:57 UTC 2006


Greg Farrell wrote:
> On Wed, 2006-03-01 at 13:11 +0100, Kai Kuehne wrote:
>
>   
>> Sorry, but I have another question... do you remember whether
>> the setup-process (mythtv-setup) needs an X server up and running?
>> If its really needed I think I have to forward X on my client machine.
>>     
>
> Mythtv-setup is for the frontend, so you run that on whatever box has
> the frontend and that's going to have to have X anyway.
>   
Wrong.  mythtv-setup is to configure the backend and must be executed on 
the backend but you can foward X to another system if you don't have 
keyboard/mouse/graphics on the backend.

Kevin


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