[mythtv-users] clean install

[Thomas Mashos]

On Sat, Aug 15, 2015 at 4:36 PM Peter Bennett (cats22) <cats22 at comcast.net>
wrote:

> On 08/15/2015 06:13 PM, Daryl McDonald wrote:
>
> Greetings Mythizens, Last month I tried to set my son, a software engineer
> for Amazon.com, up with MythTv. It didn't go so well. I tried first with
> software center and it went into that grey "who knows what is going on
> state" so we aborted and tried "apt-get" which seemed to work... we started
> to configure the back end and ran into a problem with recognizing the
> tuner, so I suggested a reboot, after which we could not get into anything.
> So here we are, a total novice, me, trying to tell a programmer, my son,
> how to proceed. It became more like work, that he had just spent the last
> eight hours getting paid for, and I'm sure he would have rather spent time
> with his beautiful wife.
> We aborted and nothing has been done since, my thought is to wipe all
> previous efforts and start again, and I think he may have done that between
> the first two attempts (maybe not as through as necessary). Is there anyone
> out there willing to explain to my son in full programmer language a
> successful way to set himself up from this point? TIA  Daryl
>
>
> Hi Daryl
>
> I am working on a new "User's Manual" which will eventually have a set of
> quick-start guides for various situations, to get people going more easily.
>
> I can have a go at helping you and your son and in the process get insight
> into the problems he is facing as a user of MythTV. This way I can make the
> eventual user manual better.
>
> To see the work in progress user manual, navigate to here
> https://www.mythtv.org/wiki/User:Pgbennett
> Click on the links in the "New Table of Contents". Be aware that some of
> the pages still have the Old Table of Contents embedded, so come back to
> the original page rather than navigate to links there. When the work is
> complete the old table of contents will be removed and the new one embedded.
>
> You can email me or the list with specific questions and I will try to
> walk you through. For a start it would be helpful to know what operating
> system distribution you are using (Ubuntu, Mythbuntu, Debian, etc.) and
> version, also what type of tuner you have.
>
>
> Peter
>
>
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You can also try the quick start guide. It's written for a particular tuner
and for someone using schedules direct, but should be adaptable to other
tuners (although it won't you figure out why the tuner isn't detected)
-- 
Thomas Mashos
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