[mythtv-users] XMLTV setup can't run mythtv-setup as user mythtv

[Jim Abernathy]

On 7/25/20 3:18 PM, DryHeat122 wrote:
> Trying to get XMLTV set up on a new install of Myth 31.  I have xmltv 
> compiled and installed, now trying to get it linked to the input 
> sources.  The wiki <https://www.mythtv.org/wiki/XMLTV> is pretty 
> insistent that that I run mythtv-setup as user mythtv for this step, 
> but when I sudo --login --user=mythtv and enter mythtv-setup it exits 
> without running setup or giving any error messages.  I have already 
> run it as myself, if that makes a difference.  The wiki is a little 
> confusing because it says "If you do not want to logon to that id or 
> you cannot, you can run the mythtv-setup from another id on the same 
> backend."  But above that it admonishes "Warning: It seems users are 
> missing the step that says run the setup as the user that will run 
> mythfilldatabase (which is frequently user mythtv.)"  How can I get 
> setup to run under user mythtv?  If I can't, will moving/linking the 
> .xmltv contents to /home/mythtv do the trick (as suggested in the wiki)?
>
What I do is:

1. Install Ubuntu 20.04 and create my user 'jim'

2. sudo add-apt-repository ppa:mythbuntu/31

3. sudo apt update

4. sudo apt install mythtv

5. sudo su mythtv

6. follow mythtv XMLTV wiki, in my case, tv_grab_zz_sdjson_sqlite, verbatim.

7. exit back to user 'jim'

8. mythtv-setup

JIm A


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