[mythtvnz] Compiling Mythtv from Ubuntu repositories

[Jim Cheetham]

On Tue, Jan 26, 2010 at 8:49 AM, Ross and Jemima Knudsen
<ross.jemima at gmail.com> wrote:
> Now I know most people would say run configure, make and make install
> but I have come to dislike this method as it can be hard to uninstall
> an application when done in this fashion.  So I'd like to make
> packages if possible.

You could try "checkinstall make install", which will check the root
filesystem, run the install, detect the changes, and roll them all
into a .deb for you. This .deb can then be installed and uninstalled,
although of course it will not have any intelligent postrm knowledge.

That way you could do the make in a virtual machine, and then copy the
.deb file up to the real system for testing.

> So what I've done is downloaded the source code from the Ubuntu
> repositories which has the Debian rules etc in it to make deb packages
> using 'apt-get source mythtv'.

That's a theoretically better approach, but requires more knowledge.
So I'm not answering the question you actually asked ...

-jim