My notes installing mythtv on Debian

Mepis 2004.03

dec7,2004

References:
mythtv.org documentation
http://dijkstra.csh.rit.edu/~mdz/debian/dists/unstable/mythtv/


-setup sources list per instructions on http://dijkstra.csh.rit.edu/~mdz/debian/dists/unstable/mythtv/.

-don't create mythtv user, apt-getting myth will do it for you.

-install mysql-server, -client, -admin, -common, -navigator, etc... 
	apt-get install mysql-server mysql-client mysql-common mysql-navigator             

	mysqld as linux root user

-then apt-get mythtv  
	apt-get install mythtv
		
-set passwd of mythtv user to mythtv

-logout

-login as mythtv user

	mythtv-setup
	mythbackend

	cd /usr/share/mythtv/sql
	mysql < mc.sql
	
	mythfilldatabase
	
	mythfrontend


-if trouble with database drop it...

mysql -u root
drop database mythconverg;
quit

-then recreate it using mysql < mc.sql
	

For some reason on one machine I was testing this, I had
to remove and redo alot of this many times. I had
permissions problems with the myth database.
I think the solution was to set mythtv users password to mythtv.

David Gleba