[mythtvnz] Introduction

[Graeme Woollett]

Gary Te Young wrote:

>>I'd love to know why debian is doing such a poor job of mythtv.  I had all
>>sorts of issues between mysql and dependancies... the current one is
>>mythweather and friends don't want to install because
>>    
>>
>
>Debian?  At some stage Debian was the primary development platform as Isaac
>Richards was using this.  Since then it has probably changed but there was
>great support.  I had not used Debian at all before this but found that apt
>was a great tool, this would resolve all of your installation dependency
>issues.  I liked it so much that I still use it on FC2.
>
>Usually I found if I wanted to use the latest CVS version, the easiest way
>from a fresh install was to 'apt-get install mythtv-suite' which would give
>me the latest rpm install of all the required programs and their
>dependencies.  I could then 'apt-get remove mythtv-suite' to just delete the
>mythtv applications and then checkout the latest CVS to play around with.
>
>These days with so many machines, I just use the latest rpm install, I'm in
>no rush for the latest and greatest :)
>
>  
>
I've recently converted from Debian to Ubuntu.  Much less work in 
getting Myth going in UBuntu.
Now I've used it I wouldn't go back to Debian for a Desktop/HTPC setup.  
Fedora/Redhat had too many dependancy troubles for my liking.

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