Installation of MythTV SVN

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Installation

Lets install the latest SVN version of MythTV. This instruction presumes that you already have a working MythTV 0.19 installation up and running, it might also work with versions prior to 0.19 but this has not been tested.

• 1. We will start by installing a number of dependencies required when building MythTV.

sudo apt-get install build-essential qt3-dev-tools libqt3-mt-dev liblircclient-dev libasound2-dev libdts-dev libdvdnav-dev libxv-dev libxxf86vm-dev transcode libqt3-mt-mysql liblame-dev subversion libdvdread3-dev libsamplerate0 libxvidcore4 liba52-0.7.4-dev libfame-dev libcdio-dev libmad0-dev libid3tag0-dev libvorbis-dev libflac-dev libcdaudio-dev libcdparanoia0-dev fftw3-dev libsmpeg-dev libtiff4-dev libexif-dev kdelibs4-dev libglut3-dev mysql-client mysql-server libxvmc-dev checkinstall linux-headers-`uname -r`

• 2. Start by uninstalling the previous myth version:

sudo apt-get remove mythtv-common mythtv-doc

• 3. We need to do the following to make MythTV compile on AMD64

sudo mv /usr/lib/libdts.a /usr/lib/libdts.a.old
sudo mv /usr/lib/libdts_pic.a /usr/lib/libdts.a

• 4. cd /usr/src
• 5. umask 0002
• 6. Get the latest source:

svn co http://svn.mythtv.org/svn/trunk/mythtv
svn co http://svn.mythtv.org/svn/trunk/mythplugins
svn co http://svn.mythtv.org/svn/trunk/myththemes

• 7. cd mythtv
• 8. If you want Swedish subtitles to work, you can install the Swedish Subtitles patch by unzipping it and run:

patch -p0 < mythtv_swe_teletext.patch

• 9. Prepare for compilation

./configure --prefix=/usr/local --enable-dvb --dvb-path=/usr/src/linux-headers-2.6.15-26-amd64-k8/include --enable-proc-opt --enable-directfb --enable-xvmc --enable-xvmc-opengl --enable-opengl-vsync --disable-xvmc-vld

• 10. qmake mythtv.pro
• 11. make
• 12. Change 10664 to the subversion revision you checked out and run:

(run the following command twice, for some reason all files are not included the first time)

sudo checkinstall --pkgversion=0.19.99 --pkgrelease=10664 --pkgaltsource=/usr/local --nodoc --arch=amd64

• 13. cd ../mythplugins
• 14. Prepare mythplugins from compilation:

./configure --use-prefix=/usr/local --disable-mythphone 

• 15. qmake mythplugins.pro
• 16. make
• 17. Change 10664 to the subversion revision you checked out and run:

(run the following command twice, for some reason all files are not included the first time)

sudo checkinstall --pkgversion=0.19.99 --pkgrelease=10664 --pkgaltsource=/usr/local --nodoc --arch=amd64

• 18. cd ../myththemes
• 19. Prepare myththemes from compilation:

./configure --use-prefix=/usr/local

• 20. qmake myththemes.pro
• 21. make
• 22. Change 10664 to the subversion revision you checked out and run:

(run the following command twice, for some reason all files are not included the first time)

sudo checkinstall --pkgversion=0.19.99 --pkgrelease=10664 --pkgaltsource=/usr/local --nodoc --arch=amd64

• 23. Open /etc/init.d/mythtv-backend and change the line:

DAEMON=/usr/bin/mythbackend

To:

DAEMON=/usr/local/bin/mythbackend

• 24. Create a new file: /etc/ld.so.conf and add the following line to it:

/usr/local/lib

• 25. We need change back the .a file we changed earlier to get MythTV compile on AMD64

sudo mv /usr/lib/libdts.a /usr/lib/libdts_pic.a
sudo mv /usr/lib/libdts.a.old /usr/lib/libdts.a

• 26. sudo ldconfig
• 27. Edit /etc/init.d/mythtv-backen and add the following line somewhere at the top:

HOME=/home/mythtv 

References

• www.mythtv.org
• www.foodgun.com