[mythtv-users] Switched from Debian Stable to Ununtu Server (12.04). Best approach for mythtv backend?

[Nick Rout]

On Wed, Jul 4, 2012 at 5:04 PM, David Moore <dmoo1790 at ihug.co.nz> wrote:
> On 04/07/12 16:01, Greg wrote:
>>
>> On 07/03/2012 05:07 PM, Alan Chandler wrote:
>>>
>>> On 03/07/12 21:53, David Brieck Jr. wrote:
>>>>
>>>> On Tue, Jul 3, 2012 at 4:37 PM, Alan Chandler
>>>> <alan at chandlerfamily.org.uk <mailto:alan at chandlerfamily.org.uk>> wrote:
>>>>
>>>> Due to a major hardware failure over the last week I have had to
>>>> rebuild my main house server (mail, dns, web etc). This was
>>>> running Debian stable (Squeeze) with mythtv 0.25 via backports.
>>>>
>>>> Thinking I might be able to make use of the 0.25-fixes repository
>>>> I rebuilt the server using Ubuntu-Server 12.04. However, looking
>>>> a the mythbuntu web site it now seems to do everything through the
>>>> mythbuntu-control-centre - and assumes that you do not need to
>>>> know any details of how to get access to the correct repository.
>>>>
>>>> It also implies that the control centre is already installed - but
>>>> I presume that is because I am using the server edition and it
>>>> assumes you have the desktop. I installed the control centre via
>>>> aptitude, and it pulled in loads and loads of additional junk with
>>>> it. However when I try and use it, all the icons are missing and
>>>> I get an error when it tries to do anything which requires admin
>>>> permissions. I think it might have been trying to add something to
>>>> my sources.list file.
>>>>
>>>> I don't really want the hand holding of the control centre if I
>>>> don't need it - I can just as easily run mythtv-setup manually.
>>>>
>>>> Does anyone know how I can set the ubuntu-server up so I can get
>>>> my backend to pickup 0.25-fixes.
>>>>
>>>> --
>>>> Alan Chandler
>>>> http://www.chandlerfamily.org.uk
>>>>
>>>>
>>>>
>>>> It's a little unintuitive, but visit this page:
>>>> http://www.mythbuntu.org/existing-ubuntu
>>>>
>>>> and click on the chrome looking Install MythBuntu image. This should
>>>> add the correct repos for your system and let you install -fixes
>>>>
>>>> You never have to open the control center if you don't want to, but it
>>>> does have some handy utilities for optimizing MySQL and a few other
>>>> settings.
>>>>
>>>>
>>>>
>>>> This body part will be downloaded on demand.
>>>
>>> but I'm running on a command line only server. I don't really want to
>>> install firefox etc just so I can have a web page automatically add some
>>> lines to my sources.list. Can't someone just tell me what they are, and
>>> I will edit them into my sources.list. Then tell me what package to
>>> install so the repository key is installled.
>>>
>>> --
>>> Alan Chandler
>>> http://www.chandlerfamily.org.uk
>>>
>>>
>>>
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>>
>> deb http://ppa.launchpad.net/mythbuntu/0.25/ubuntu precise main
>> deb-src http://ppa.launchpad.net/mythbuntu/0.25/ubuntu precise main
>>
>> signing key 1504888C2009-01-18
>>
>> I haven't had to import a key in a long time so you are on your own
>> there...
>>
>
> I think I used add-apt-repository to add the repos and get the keys.


Thats the way, specifically

sudo add-apt-repository ppa:mythbuntu/0.25