[mythtv-users] clean install

[Daryl McDonald]

On Sat, Aug 15, 2015 at 8:05 PM, Larry Kennedy <lunchtimelarry at gmail.com>
wrote:

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> On Sat, Aug 15, 2015 at 6:13 PM, Daryl McDonald <darylangela at gmail.com>
> wrote:
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>> 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/
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> 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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Apologies to all, its, to the best of my knowledge, Ubuntu 14.04 that he
uses as a server.
Tom, tuner was detected, but some kind of red border (memory is fading) my
thinking was improper loading, so I suggested a reboot.

Thanks Peter, Ill forward the link to him.
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