Is there any reason I cannot download Ubuntu packages and install them on my Debian System (provided all dependencies are met ahead of time)?

Ubuntu has AMD64 packages for mythtv, debian does not.

No, it's entirely doable. However, know that you may encounter problems that could be difficult to resolve (either now or in the future). Fortunately, you're in the right place for cut & paste jobs of various package system errors...

I say go ahead with it if you're not afraid of having things break temporarily.

Yea, try it out. Then post the error messages.

if you see the sources.list in debian it has either main, contrib,non-us or non-free packages,the sources for ubuntu comes under warty packages, not supported by debian. Hence if you try apt-get install it wont work.

I assume he was going to add ubuntu sources to his apt sources list first. He wanted to know if that'd work?

Did I read, assume, too much into the question?

I hate that when it happens.;-)

Steve

Go ahead fatman, live on the edge

Actually I just downladed the debs directly from the unoffical Ubuntu packages site, and gave them the ol' "'dpkg -i".

A few dependencies were missing, but that was tidied up in short order - everything installed OK.

Still got problems with mythtv though - dont know how much conflict there is between the packaged mythtv and the compile from source I previously tried, gonna reformat and start anew (again)

As easy as it is to purge all the packages from your machine, using aptitude or apt-get, why would you want to reformat and start over?

Maybe this will help.

http://www.geocities.com/dlou99/mythtv.html

Steve

well, one of the mythtv's on the machine was compiled from source (not trivial - takes longer to compile mythtv than my kernel), so i don't think it could be de-apt'ed. (how much does 'make clean' of a compilation from source remove - there would appear to be alot of changes to many files it would have to take care of)

Plus I like a nice clean machine. I am getting good at wiping at and starting fresh (not a trival execise to put Debian Sarge on an AMD64 box running NVIDIA video card & mobo).

Hi fatman,

Got it.

I am running Sarge on a Sempron 2800. Very easy install. Haven't done the NVIDIA drivers yet though. I was actually considering installing Libranet because it automatically installs NVIDIA drivers. Everything has just been so smooth with Sarge, I hate the thought of wiping it off.

I just rec'd a Hauppauge Win-TV Go ($20 free shipping). Works great with tvtime in linux. Very easy to get working. I figured I'd use that Debian MythTV link I posted earlier and try a pvr.

What card are you using?

Good luck with your MythTV,
Steve

I've been using a Hauppauge 250 and ivytv. Complicated install, but no major issues.
The link you posted is a little stale, the respository in the directions has removed its woody packages - I think they only have unstable packages now.

Here's a link that helped me out http://wilson-stowe.com/family/mytht...aptureCards%22
If you have issues with anything NVIDIA (there were quite a few 'tricks' to get everything running), their Linux Support forum is full of helpful people. NVIDIA Linux Forum