[mythtv-users] Best way to deploy mythtv

Paulin paulin at spextreme.com
Wed Jan 7 20:46:04 UTC 2009


On Wed, Jan 7, 2009 at 2:18 PM, Xavier Hervy <xavier.hervy at bluebottle.com>wrote:

> 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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This is what I've been doing and it seems to be working fine.  Biggest
problem I had was the original install (myth .21) wasn't fully removed.  Now
that I've cleaned up and installed using my .deb packages its been good for
install/unistall.

steve
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