[mythtv-users] New Debian Install

[Scott Martin]

Mark Paulus wrote:
> smartin wrote:
>> Hi,
>>
>> New to myth tv,
>> Dell E510 P4 3.2G
>> hauppauge PVR500  creative Audigy 2 sound
>> nvidea geforce7300LE video
>> 1 GB Memory
>> MS Remote with RC6 on back
>>
>> I am currently running KDE on Debian Sid and have downloaded from
>> Debian-Multimedia.org the required packages. I believe? I have
>> compiled them as they show up in my home directory.
>>
>> My question is, Should I dump KDE? How do I start MythTV ?
> 
> When you say "downloaded", how did you download them?
> 
> For debian systems, you want to add the following to your
> /etc/apt/sources.list file:
> 
> deb http://www.debian-multimedia.org stable main
> deb-src http://www.debian-multimedia.org stable main
> 
> Since you are using a Hauppauge PVR-500, you also should add these:
> 
> #
> # Some additional ivtv stuff.  However, since this is "sid", not gonna
> # use it.
> #
> deb     http://www.hellion.org.uk/debian sid main
> deb-src http://www.hellion.org.uk/debian sid main
> 
> Now, go to http://www.ivtvdriver.org, click the Documentation link under
> resources on the left, and then click Debian under IVTV Howto.
> The key here is to remember the versions.
> Kernel <= 2.5.16 ==> ivtv0.4
> Kernel = 2.6.16  ==> ivtv0.6
> Kernel = 2.6.17  ==> ivtv0.7
> Kernel >= 2.6.18 ==> ivtv0.8
> 
> Follow the directions and get the ivtv drivers to work so you get good
> messages when you do dmesg.  The ivtv-users mail list can be helpful
> there with problems.
> 
> Once you get ivtv working, then it's on to installing mythtv.
> 
> all you need to do is do an
> 'apt-get install mythtv', and you should get most/all packages
> installed.  Once you get the packages installed, then you can run
> mythtv-setup to configure your cards/listings/etc, following the
> directions from the Mythtv documentation.
> 
> If you have actually downloaded the .deb packages to your hard-disk,
> using wget, or whatever, you can install them manually, using
> 'dpkg --install "*myth*.deb"'.  Doing it that way will help make sure
> your dependencies are satisfied.  However, using apt-get will make sure
> that any other external dependencies are satisfied, and will be MUCH
> easier in the long run.
> 


Hi,

I actually ran dselect after adding the debian-multimedia to my
sources.list

I read that the ivtv drivers are actually supported part of the sid
unstable release and figured?? they should just work??

After retrieving all the myth and ivtv packages, i ran compile (or
something), I don't quite remember as I did this Friday night and it
compiled for what seemed like 20 or so minutes.

After which I saw all the files located in my home directory. I am
running 2.6.18-2.

I wanted to see if mythtv user was there and it does show up.

I just don't know how to get any further and am hoping
that:

Start the backend: nohup mythbackend &
	Start the frontend: mythfrontend

will get me going.



Thanks!!!

> 
> 
>>
>> This is what shows up in my home directory:
>> config                              mythtv_0.20-0.4_all.deb
>> config.err                          mythtv_0.20-0.4.diff.gz
>> config.h                            mythtv_0.20-0.4.dsc
>> config.log                          mythtv_0.20-0.4_i386.changes
>> config.mak                          mythtv_0.20.orig.tar.gz
>> Desktop                             mythtv-backend_0.20-0.4_i386.deb
>> downloads                           mythtv-common_0.20-0.4_all.deb
>> libavcodec                          mythtv-database_0.20-0.4_all.deb
>> libavformat                         mythtv-doc_0.20-0.4_all.deb
>> libmyth-0.20_0.20-0.4_i386.deb      mythtv-frontend_0.20-0.4_i386.deb
>> libmyth-0.20-dev_0.20-0.4_i386.deb  tests
>> Makefile                            vhook
>> mythtv-0.20
>>
>>
>> Any pointers I would greatly appreciate.
>>
>> TIA
>> Scott Martin
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