[mythtv-users] find_orphans.py

[David Hampton]

On Thu, 2025-02-06 at 21:19 -0500, James Abernathy wrote:
> On Thu, Feb 6, 2025 at 9:09 PM Peter Bennett <pb.mythtv at gmail.com>
> wrote: 
> > On 2/6/25 20:24, James Abernathy wrote: 
> > >  
> > > I can't find a package called python3-mythtv for Debian 12.  I
> > > know it gets installed by building the Debian packages, but I'm
> > > doing a build from source via cmake and I installed my
> > > dependencies using ansible but python3-mythtv must not get
> > > installed there.
> > >  
> > > Jim A  
> >  
> > /usr/local/lib/python3.12/dist-packages/MythTV. That is where all
> > the python stuff for MythTV is installed on my testing system.
> > Depending on your python version the python3.12 directory may be
> > different. find_orphans.py works on my system. This system was
> > installed using a mythtv-light package built with cmake, but it
> > should be the same for other install methods.
> >  
> >  Peter 
> > 
> 
> Thanks, maybe there's an option to either build or install it. In my
> /usr/local/lib/phton3.11/dist-packages directory, there are no files.

Both make and cmake will create the python bindings if they find the
appropriate python packages installed on the system.  If not, they
don't fail the build, they simply disable the python buildings.  You
need to look at the output of configure (for make) of the configuration
stage of the MythTV sub-package (for cmake).  Search for the string
"bindings_python" in the output of either type of build.  The cmake
build has additional info if you search for "Found python version".

David