HOWTO Install MythTV on Fedora Core 6

_This is a work-in-progress and is nowhere near complete._

Prerequisites

Hardware

• compatibility
• minimum requirements

Zap2It registration

• http://labs.zap2it.com
• certificate code ZIYN-DQZO-SBUT

Install the base system

Install proper

• boot DVD
• how to avoid wrong kernel install?
• walk though prompts
• partitioning?
• package selection?

First boot configuration

• walk though prompts
• root password
• myth user (not mythtv, that will be used by backend)

Updates

• yum -y install yum-fastestmirror
• yum -y update

Install third-party packages

NVidia drivers (from Livna)

• rpm -ivh http://rpm.livna.org/livna-release-6.rpm
• select based on age of video card
  • before NV30: yum -y install kmod-nvidia xorg-x11-drv-nvidia
  • NV30 and later: yum -y install kmod-nvidia-96xx xorg-x11-drv-nvidia-96xx

MythTV (from ATrpms)

• rpm --import http://ATrpms.net/RPM-GPG-KEY.atrpms
• repository configuration in YUM
• yum -y install mythtv-suite

Configure MySQL

Configuration file tuning

Set password

Start service

• service mysqld start
• chkconfig mysqld on

MythTV thing

Configure MythTV

• Run mythtvsetup to start the interactive configuration utility.
• note keyboard and mouse behavior for UI navigation

General

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Something else

And some other thing

One last thing

MythTV post-config prep

Start the MythTV back end

• service mythbackend start
• chkconfig mythbackend on

Fill the database

• mythfilldatabase

Starting MythTV

Run mythfrontend