Opened 6 years ago

Closed 6 years ago

#13151 closed Bug Report - General (Fixed)

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

Reported by: ttabyss@… Owned by: Stuart Auchterlonie
Priority: minor Milestone: 30.0
Component: Documentation Version: Master Head
Severity: medium Keywords:
Cc: Ticket locked: no

Description

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.

Change History (4)

comment:1 Changed 6 years ago by ttabyss@…

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

comment:2 Changed 6 years ago by ttabyss@…

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

comment:3 Changed 6 years ago by Stuart Auchterlonie

Owner: set to Stuart Auchterlonie
Priority: blockerminor
Status: newaccepted

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

comment:4 Changed 6 years ago by Stuart Auchterlonie

Milestone: needs_triage30.0
Resolution: Fixed
Status: acceptedclosed

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

Regards Stuart

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