Page on "Installing MythTV on Debian" is missing a critical step

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On the Wiki manual page at:

​https://www.mythtv.org/wiki/Installing_MythTV_on_Debian

There is some sort of missing step between "Choose Your Package" and "Install Software".

The step to Install Software assume the packages are in a place where apt-get can find them, but instead they are located in the build directory. How do you install the .deb files? Using dpkg -i requires a lot of dependencies to be resolved by hand.

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The following text should be added to the instructions:

replace sudo apt-get install packagename

with sudo dpkg-scanpackages -m . | gzip -c > Packages.gz sudo echo "deb [trusted=yes] ​file:///full/path/to/build/packaging/deb ./" > /etc/apt/sources.list.d/mythtv.list sudo apt-get update sudo apt-get install packagename

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Let me try again:

replace:

sudo apt-get install packagename

with

sudo dpkg-scanpackages -m . | gzip -c > Packages.gz
sudo echo "deb [trusted=yes] file:///full/path/to/build/packaging/deb ./" > /etc/apt/sources.list.d/mythtv.list
sudo apt-get update
sudo apt-get install packagename

[Stuart Auchterlonie]

You should be able to update the wiki yourself. If you do not have an account on the wiki and need account creation enabled, then please let me know

Regards Stuart

[Stuart Auchterlonie]

As the page has been updated, i'm going to mark this ticket as fixed.

Regards Stuart