[mythtv-users] Building from source

[Brett Kosinski]

>
> I'm running Ubuntu 6.10 and I've installed mythtv via apt-get.  Now I'd
> like to try to build the "fixes" version from the fixes branch.  Should I
> "configure" the source version to install into /usr?  Should I remove the
> existing MythTV package (apt-get remove ???) before installing the source
> version?  If the source version is buggy/unacceptable how can I restore the
> package version (is apt-get install sufficient)?


Honestly, I would install to /usr/local and leave the exist packages in
place.  Just make sure that your PATH has /usr/local in the list first (and
you might need to set LD_LIBRARY_PATH to do the same... though I don't think
Myth dynamically links to any of it's internal libraries).

This way, if something goes wrong, you can just go back to running the old
version.  And if things are working well, then you can use apt to remove the
old packages.

Brett.
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