Steve Adeff wrote:
On Friday 09 December 2005 06:18, Mike Robinson wrote:
Steve Adeff wrote:
On Thursday 08 December 2005 20:53, Mike Robinson wrote:
I was considering using Debian (or Ubuntu) for my new Myth box, but then
I saw that the distribution isn't being supported anymore:
http://dijkstra.csh.rit.edu/~mdz/debian/dists/unstable/mythtv/README
Does this mean that I'm SOL for Myth on a Debian distribution? Would it
be much more difficult to use the source straight from the MythTv.org
site? All of the guides I've found for Myth/Debian use the above
distribution.
Thanks for the advice.
-Mike
Build from source. its easy once you have the required deb's installed.
I've got Myth running on all three of my Debian systems.
I'd also suggest against Ubuntu, stick with real Debian. Kanotix is a
good Live! distro that can be easily HD installed, or KnopMyth is good as
well and has a great forum for support and is specific for running
MythTV.
Why do you recommend agains Ubuntu? I was actually going to attempt it
tonight...now I'm concerned!
Another factor to throw into the mix, my system has an AMD64. Does that
change things if I want to run an AMD64 distribution?
coming from a real Debian distro, I tried it out as an option for my parents
and to "recommend" to friends. I figured a user-friendly distro with debian
base! but it requires Ubuntu specific sources, so you can't use regular
debian stuff. I also didn't find it all that clean at the time (as far as
handling things like my iPod, etc). This was a year ago, so things have
probably changed since then.
I'd also recommend looking at Kubuntu instead, its KDE based which would make
it better for MythTV, and IMNSHO better overall since I think KDE is years
ahead of Gnome...
Okay, so I'll go for Debian's "etch" release. That's what I'm currently
running on my wife's old Blueberry iBook, so I'm a bit familiar with it.
So my understanding is that I can install all of the dependencies for
myth from the debs, and then build the myth binaries themselves from the
original source. I guess I'll just let the "configure" script tell me
which libraries I may have to upgrade...correct? If etch's libraries
are out of date, then hopefully I can get them from sid. Also, I'll
install the i386 dist for now.
Thanks for all of the help so far. Any additional advice is welcome!
-Mike
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