[mythtv-users] Compiling MythTV on a computer instead of the Xbox

[Sarah Hayes]

Ryan wrote:
> Ok i want to upgrade, but im having a bitch of a time compiling MythTv 
> on Xebian.  I have no clue on how to compile it on another computer, 
> because i tried it, but when i copied it back to the xbox and ran make 
> install, it just re compiled it again and messed up.  Hopefully 
> someone here can help me out!
>
> Cheers!
> Ryan
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DistCC can be rather... erm... finikly :)  But as your runing Xebian 
(which I assume is a debian derivative?) you should be able to build a 
binary package, move it to the Xbox and then install it using dpkg -I 
<your deb file>.deb

http://www.debian-administration.org/articles/336

Seems to provide an "idiots guide", which is good, even I understood 
bits of it.

By the sound of it, it looks like you can pretty much use normal debian 
repo's in Xebian, it's all x86 so you should be able to just sit back, 
wait for the repo's to update to 0.21 and then apt-get update && apt-get 
upgrade it.

Sarah