[mythtv-users] Best way to deploy mythtv

Xavier Hervy xavier.hervy at bluebottle.com
Wed Jan 7 19:18:51 UTC 2009


Brad DerManouelian wrote:
> On Jan 7, 2009, at 1:02 AM, Xavier Hervy wrote:
>
>   
>> Hi,
>>
>> I am compiling mythtv from trunk (and apply few patches).
>> I would like to build it only once and install it on 3 computers (1
>> FE/BE + 2 FE) and I am using Ubuntu 8.04.
>> Unfortunately trunk/packaging/deb/ is empty.
>>
>> So my question is, what is the best way to do this ?
>>     
>
> Try using checkinstall. I know it builds .deb packages for you but I  
> haven't tried deploying these on another machine so I don't know for a  
> fact that it will work, but from what I understand it should.
>
> It's documented here:
> http://www.mythtv.org/wiki/index.php/Installing_MythTV_SVN_on_Ubuntu_Breezy#How_do_I_compile_the_source_code.3F
> Look at "Second option- use checkinstall to create and install a .deb  
> package"
>
> -Brad
>
>   
Thx for the link, I am going to try this.
Xavier


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