So today was the installation of MythTV…

I used the MythTV reference for Ubuntu Dapper and the associated Dapper IVTV installation guide and while it seems pretty comprehensive I think it could be faster if packages were grouped to all install at the same time instead of explaining so much. I mean, I’m curious to know why they’re important but the fact that I have to use apt-get two dozen times instead of once or twice is silly.

It’s interesting, too, that on each new kernel installation the driver for the Hauppage 150 card is required to be reinitialized. So here are the commands for quick reference:

sudo m-a update,preparesudo m-a a-i ivtvsudo depmod -a

Unclear in the instructions was the creation of the database needed… here’s the setup instructions

and borging up the joint was the missing Qmysql3 driver…
apt-get install libqt3-mt-mysql