[mythtv-users] clean install

[Larry Kennedy]

On Sat, Aug 15, 2015 at 6:13 PM, Daryl McDonald <darylangela at gmail.com>
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
>
> You don't indicate what your Linux distro is (I assume a Debian variant
based on your comments), but one of the easiest and closest thing to a
turn-key solution is MythBuntu:  http://www.mythbuntu.org/

The setup wizard for the stand-alone frontend is pretty much foolproof.
Haven't tried the backend setup yet but I assume it works well too.

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