[mythtv-users] Getting started with Myth installation

[Kevin Kuphal]

On Tue, Sep 30, 2008 at 11:27 AM, daryl helwig
<sofasurferlinux at charter.net>wrote:

> Johnny Russ wrote:
> >
> > sudo apt-get install mythbuntu-desktop
> >
> > It seems they have even made this unnecasary now. They have a webpage
> > where you can just click on a link to a php script that will get the
> > installation process going on an existing Ubuntu machine:
> > http://www.mythbuntu.org/existing-ubuntu. This should install all of
> > the packages you need and it will take care of most of the
> > configuration you would need to do also. Once it is installed you can
> > go to the Ubuntu Settings menu and you will see the Mythbuntu Control
> > Center. From there you can add/remove the frontend or backend, setup
> > remotes, add/remove mythtv plugins and many more things. They aren't
> > all of the way there yet but the goal is for you to be able to setup
> > and configure anything you would need for mythtv from the Mythbuntu
> > control center. Like most things in the world of Linux it is simple
> > and easy if everything works, but can be a real pain if some small
> > thing goes wrong. Hopefully this can get you on the easy path.
> >
> This seems like the setup that I should be using. I went inti synaptic
> and searched for mythtv and mysql and removed all entries. Then I went
> to the Mythbuntu Desktop site ( http://www.mythbuntu.org/existing-ubuntu
> ) and started the download and install.
>
> The process went on until the following was shown in terminal...
>
> Setting up xfce4-icon-theme (4.4.2-1)...
> Setting up Mythtv-status (0.7.3-1ubuntu1)...
>  ' updating Mythtv Status mythtv-status
> Sorry, failed to fetch http://loxalhost :6544/xml.
>  ...done.
>
> Processing triggers for libc6...
> ldconfig deferred processing now taking place
> Processing triggers for initramfs-tools...
> update initramfs: Generating /boot/initrd.img-2.6.24.21-generic
>
>
> Any ideas what happened?


Is that a typo or did you mean for it to be loxalhost?

Kevin
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