[mythtvnz] Compiling Mythtv from Ubuntu repositories

[Ross and Jemima Knudsen]

Jim Cheetham wrote:
> 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 ...

Thanks Jim, I had thought about that option.  Problem is it puts
everything in a single package.  I have used checkinstall for small apps
as I am really adverse to doing make install.