[UPDATED]How to build mythtv-light (v34) for RPI OS 64bit Bookworm

[jfabernathy]

UPDATED: I've update this post since you don't build mythtv from master now that fixes/34 is the default for v34.

Using the Raspberry Pi Imager 1.7.5 or newer, select the Bookworm 64bit version. Flash the image directly to the SATA SSD using the adapter.

I found that the default Locale was set to ISO and that needs to be changed to UTF-8 for the ansible script to work correctly. Use the GUI version of the Raspberry PI Configuration app to change it.

We need to setup the dependencies and clone the repositories. You can get the background by looking at some MythTV wiki pages, but I'll give the instructions to follow from those pages.
https://www.mythtv.org/wiki/Build_from_Source
https://github.com/MythTV/packaging/tre ... /deb-light
https://github.com/MythTV/ansible

Get the dependencies:

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sudo apt install git ansible
git clone https://github.com/MythTV/ansible
cd ansible
./mythtv.yml --limit=localhost
cd

Clone the MythTV repository:

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mkdir ~/build
cd build
git clone https://github.com/MythTV/mythtv.git mythtv
cd mythtv
git checkout fixes/34

Clone the MythTV packaging repository:

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cd ~/build
git clone https://github.com/MythTV/packaging.git
cd packaging
git checkout fixes/34

Now build the .deb file

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cd ~/build/mythtv/mythtv
../../packaging/deb-light/build_package.sh

Press enter to first question about 'Please supply destination....

Go get a beer while it compiles. It could take a while (1 hour 56 minutes on RPI4 overclocked to 2.0Ghz), so maybe several beers.

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cd ../..

The mythtv-light_34.0-30-gc376437559-0_arm64_bookworm.deb in that directory may be a different version but the name should be similar.

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sudo apt install ./mythtv-light_34.0-30-gc376437559-0_arm64_bookworm.deb

I got a number of warnings and a permission issue that I don't understand but it didn't cause mythtv to not install.

I've found that you can avoid any install warnings by doing the following. After the .deb file is built you can perform these steps:

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sudo mkdir /usr/share/my_mythtv_repo

build this script in the directory with the .deb files

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sudo nano build_my_mythtv_repo.sh

Enter this text into the editor.

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#! /bin/bash
rm /usr/share/my_mythtv_repo/*.
cp ./*.deb /usr/share/my_mythtv_repo
cd /usr/share/my_mythtv_repo
dpkg-scanpackages . /dev/null | gzip -9c > Packages.gz

Make the script executable and run it from the directory with the .deb files, i.e.

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cd ~/build
sudo ./build_my_mythtv_repo.sh

Now that the local repo is built you need to add it to your apt sources.
Create /etc/apt/sources.list.d/my_mythtv_repo.list

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deb [trusted=yes] file:/usr/share/my_mythtv_repo ./

The run:

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sudo apt update
sudo apt install mythtv-light

At this point the MythTV software is installed and if you only want a frontend then you are done.

[dochawk]

I got as far as "./mythtv.yml --limit=localhost", at which point I am prompted with:

root@mythtvback:/mnt/ssd2t/ansible# ./mythtv.yml --limit=localhost
BECOME password:

I suppose my lack of familiarity with git is showing, but I have absolutely no idea what this means!

I have a 2tb ssd mounted at /mnt/ssd2t, if this matters.

thanks

[jfabernathy]

what happens when you type in your password as requested?I never run anything as root. You need to be your user

[bill6502]

Jim's right. The "BECOME password:" prompt is asking for the password used
for your user to become the root user. It's the same password you'd use if you
typed: sudo <some command name>, for example.

[monkeypet]

For those experiencing weird gradient issues on menus and playback on mythfrontend, I use this workaround:

https://github.com/MythTV/mythtv/issues/855

[jfabernathy]

If you are running Wayland, I run mythfrontend with the --platform xcb command line option and that fixes it specific to mythfrontend.