[mythtv-users] ubuntu

[Blue]

> On 5 May 2020, at 8:00 pm, mythtv-users-request at mythtv.org wrote:
> 
>>> I have always built myth from source.
>>> I cant find python builtins for suse which stops meta data lookups
>>> So I thought I'd try ubuntu 20.04 and install pre-built mythtv.
>>> 
>>> How is that done?
>>> 
>>> I tried to use the mythbuntu ppa but it does not have a release file and apt ignores it.
>>> allow-insecure used to work but seems to not any longer (The man says it will be depreciated)
>>> 
>>> google says python builtins are in one of the python modulue, but they are not there.
>>> 
>>> I guess my question boils down to "how does johnny install mythtv".
>> 
>> https://web.archive.org/web/20180515184733/http://www.mythbuntu.org/home/news/mythbuntusolongandthanksforallthefish
>> 
>> I've built v31 on 20.04. There is an error in the ansible task for it though. Fix in progress.
>> 
>> Or, try these:
>> 
>>  sudo add-apt-repository ppa:mythbuntu/31
>>  sudo apt update
>>  sudo apt upgrade  # Not sure if dist-upgrade is required.
> 
> Bill thanks for the info. My cranky answer to a 20.04 query is because I just spent 2 days trying to build for a mythtv 30 system. 30 because one of my front ends is a mac book and I have built 30 for mac, but not 31. 
> 30 involved building python modules for eg urlgrabber. I have not even tried to solve perl's xml.dom.minidom.
> So I'll try to build 31.

The perl xml.dom.minidom error is solved by a non intuitive python-xml package

James