Slack 11.0 is out!

fotoguy · 11-20-2006, 06:13 PM

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Originally Posted by tuxrules

Finally, I managed to write up a how-to for mythtv on Slackware 11. Hope people here find it useful. It is still a work in progress so email me if you find mistakes or inconsistencies.

Nice work, I have also been having a go at making some install scripts as well. I must admit that Patrick is quite talented at what he does, I modified some of his scripts as well.

I did manage to get mythtv up and running, it was having a problem with mysql, once that was sorted everything seems to run fine. Although when I used the .tgz file on another computer with slack.

I also made a script that will change the mc.sql file from mythtv@localhost to mythtv@ipaddressrange. Since mythtv recommend changing the database location from localhost to ipaddress so you can more clients to connect the the backend, you might find this useful.

Code:

#!/bin/sh
# mc.sql location
MCSQL="mc.sql"
IP=`route -n | grep eth0 | awk '{print $1}'| cut -d 0 -f1`
cat $MCSQL | sed 's/mythtv@localhost/mythtv@'$IP%'/' > $MCSQL

The only other problems I having at the moment is getting xmltv to compile properly, but should have that fixed soon.

tuxrules · 11-21-2006, 09:50 AM

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Originally Posted by fotoguy

Nice work,
Thanks

I was surprised that there were no how-tos on installing mythtv on slackware (atleast I couldn't find one) so I wrote one.

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I have also been having a go at making some install scripts as well. I must admit that Patrick is quite talented at what he does, I modified some of his scripts as well.

Absolutely agree, I very recently started making my slackbuilds to install packages. Before that I was using the traditional configure, make, checkinstall process for each additional package that I use on top of full slackware install. But you can do that only so many times so I finally turned to slackbuilds. Started with Patrick's slackbuild as a template and now I have around 80 slackbuilds for different packages that I use.

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I did manage to get mythtv up and running, it was having a problem with mysql, once that was sorted everything seems to run fine.

I'll probably include a mention of that in the how-to soon. Thanks for the tip.

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I also made a script that will change the mc.sql file from mythtv@localhost to mythtv@ipaddressrange. Since mythtv recommend changing the database location from localhost to ipaddress so you can more clients to connect the the backend, you might find this useful.

Thanks for that little script

perry · 01-02-2007, 08:29 PM

does anyone know if they can get slackware 11 and gnome 2.1.6 to work together easily...?
or is there much fuss required?
thanks for your help

- perry

ps.
live long & prospoer

truthfatal · 01-02-2007, 09:06 PM

perry, generally, it is a good idea to start a new thread for new questions.

For an answer though, you might want to take a looke at Dropline Gnome ( www.droplinegnome.org ), Freerock Gnome ( http://gsb.freerock.org/ ) and Gware Gnome ( http://www.gware.org/ )

I use Dropline and find it to be a very good Gnome for Slackware.

*edit
neither freerock nor gware have relesed a Gnome 2.16 yet. just Dropline.

jong357 · 01-02-2007, 09:08 PM

Yea, it runs just fine. I assume you mean building it yourself? I have some scripts if your interested and are not sure how to go about it.

http://jaguarlinux.com/pub/slackware.../gnome-2.16.2/

If you don't intend to roll your own, then dropline, freerock, gware and others are available.

hitest · 01-03-2007, 06:51 AM

I've used freerock and dropline. Dropline is a mature version of Gnome for Slackware 11.0.