MythTV SlackBuild for Slackware 13.0
I’ve been trying to build a media centre pc based on Slackware 13.0 and done pretty well using XBMC which I think is pretty damn good. At the moment, it lacks any TV support, which leaves me with MythTV. In order to play with MythTV, you have to get it installed. There is no SlackBuild for it at SlackBuilds.org because it’s a righteous pain in the arse. Nevertheless, I have modified the SlackBuild for 12.2 by David Somero and successfully compiled and installed MythTV. I haven’t yet fully tested it, so I can’t tell you if or how well it works, but it definitely compiled ok.
In order to get it to build against a recent kernel, I’ve had to move away from the official 0.21 release to subversion, however I don’t mean /trunk. In the MythTV subversion repository, as well as the tagged 0.21 release and the current /trunk, there is also a branch called 0-21-fixes. Now, any other software project would be releasing snapshots of this branch as 0.21.<minor-rev>, but MythTV choose not to, so you effectively have to consider this branch as an unstable stable, which means it works where the official 0.21 release doesn’t, but because it’s subject to commits it might not be properly stable.
You will also need to install qt3-compat from the Slackware 13.0 “/extra/kde3-compat” directory, and it’s probably worth making sure you have lame installed too.
The SlackBuild tarball is here:
- I RECOMMEND YOU READ THROUGH THE SCRIPT BEFORE YOU USE IT.
- I ACCEPT NO LIABILITY IF THE SCRIPT DESTROYS YOUR MACHINE.
- THIS SCRIPT IS ONLY VALID FOR 32-BIT SLACKWARE 13.0.
The script checks out the head of the 0-21-fixes branch into /tmp/mythtv-build/mythtv and installs into /tmp/mythtv-build/package-mythtv before outputting a package into /tmp.
It ought to be simple enough to modify the script for 64-bit slack with a configure flag here or there, but I don’t have a 64-bit Slackware machine available that I am prepared to test it on.
20091207 Update: Superceded by http://slackbuilds.org/repository/13.0/multimedia/mythtv/
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