[mythtv-users] installing mythic without starting with mythbuntu 16.04?

[Mike Bibbings]

On 15/11/17 17:58, Jim Abernathy wrote:
> In the past I’ve always started with Mythbuntu to build a mythtv 
> systems.  Today I started with a fresh install of Xubuntu 16.04.3 and 
> added the repositories for mythtv per the wiki.
>
> The first time I ran the mythtv backend setup I got into that loop on 
> the pick language screen that I’ve seen so many times.  I’ll figure it 
> out, but I would think a fresh install on a freshly built Xubuntu 
> system would work out of the box.
>
> Is there a blog somewhere where someone has figured it out and 
> documented it in details.  I’m looking for something like my blog that 
> I did for Mythbuntu 16.04 install. 
> (http://mythtvinstall.blogspot.com/2016/12/how-to-install-mythbuntu-16041.html)
>
> Jim A
>
>

The problem I have found is that on first run of mythtv-setup it uses a 
default password for the mythconverg database of 'mythtv', which is not 
what was setup when mythtv-backend was installed, which sets a random 8 
character alpha-numeric in /etc/mythtv/config.xml.

I usually do the following before running mythtv-setup for the first time:
  mkdir -p ~/.mythtv
  ln -s /etc/mythtv/config.xml ~/.mythtv/config.xml

Mike
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