[mythtv-users] mythtv-setup program not included in 0.19?

[Craig Hagerman]

On 3/21/06, Craig Hagerman <craighagerman at gmail.com> wrote:

>
> I discovered this page on installing mythtv on ubuntu breezy:
> http://www.mythtv.org/wiki/index.php/Installing_MythTV_SVN_on_Ubuntu_Breezy
> It lists "packages that need to be installed first".
>
> I went through this list with apt-get. Some of them were not
> installed. But a few of them couldn't be installed
>

Sorry to reply to myself here... I changed the backports URL from
ca.archive.ubuntu.com (Canada) to us.archive.ubuntu.com (US), and
suddenly transcode WAS installable. I now have everything on that list
(above). Hmmmm.... no jokes about Canadians being slow please! :)

I did the suggested linking:

% ln -s /usr/share/qt3 /usr/share/qt

I made sure that the follow were all installed (some were not, some of
these were installed along with others, etc):

qt3-dev-tools libqt3-mt-dev lame liblircclient-dev libasound2-dev
libdts-dev libdvdnav-dev libxv-dev libxxf86vm-dev transcode
libqt3-mt-mysql libxxf86vm-dev libqt3-mt-mysql liblame-dev subversion
ibdvdread3-dev libsamplerate0 subversion ibdvdread3-dev libsamplerate0
subversion libsamplerate0 libxvidcore4 liba52-0.7.4-dev
liba52-0.7.4-dev libfame-dev libcdio-dev libcdio-dev transcode
kdelibs4-dev

.... and everything compiled OK. I found mythtv-setup both in
mythtv/setup/mythtv-setup and in /usr/local/bin/mythtv-setup. I tried
running it .... and it failed with this message:

error while loading shared libraries: libmythtv-0.19.so.0: cannot open
shared object file: No such file or directory

A quick google and I found the suggestion to try the following:

% echo /usr/local/lib >> /etc/ld.so.conf
% /sbin/ldconfig

So I finally get to run mythtv-setup only to get ANOTHER error:

 mythtv-setup: cannot connect to X server :0.0


What new hell is this? ... oh, mythtv is not the logged in user. Make
a mental note to log in as mythtv (or set mythtv to be the automatic
default login) and, for now, enter:

xhost + localhost

And mythtv-setup FINALLY (!) works. Hurray! It has been a long and
tortuous haul to get 0.19 setup.

Was a lot easier a year ago when I did an install on another computer
with a simple apt-get install mythtv, but I really wanted to new
features of 0.19 and didn't want to wait for it to become a .dev file.

Thanks everyone who advised me.

Craig