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Added by patryk kyrtap over 11 years ago

Hello
I wanted to install Tvheadend on Mint 15(based on ubuntu) but I can't add the repository
This went without errors

curl http://apt.tvheadend.org/repo.gpg.key | sudo apt-key add -

but when I run this I get an error
sudo apt-add-repository http://apt.tvheadend.org/stable
Can't add PPA: „No JSON object could be decoded”

Is there another way to add this repository?


Replies (5)

RE: Can't add ppa - Added by andy foo over 11 years ago

I have the exact same problem.

OS: Mint 15 64 bit. Fresh installation. Old computer.

Was able to install tvheadend on ubuntu 6 months ago on the same machine. Not sure if it is the OS or tvheadend.

Any solution would be most welcome. Not keen to use mythtv.

RE: Can't add ppa - Added by audio smurf about 11 years ago

im having the same issue. Neither adding via terminal nor directly in the sources.list helps.

RE: Can't add ppa - Added by Andrew McGillis about 11 years ago

Hey folks,
Looks like it's a bug in Mint. I have the same problem and a bunch of googling:
http://forums.linuxmint.com/viewtopic.php?f=90&t=136317

So uhhhh... looks like I'm gonna try building from source. My first time. Ever. I can't see this going well, but wish me luck.

Gil out.

RE: Can't add ppa - Added by Joe Haimerl about 11 years ago

Were you guys able to get it installed in Mint 15? I'm getting the same error and am pretty much a novice at Linux, so this is now becoming way over my head...

RE: Can't add ppa - Added by Joe Souza over 10 years ago

Found a work around. I remembered that I installed ajaxplorer without problem, so I just checked their instructions and went from there. [url]http://pyd.io/download/[/url]

So I was trying to install tvheadend, and this is how I got it to work

I added the key, i had to install curl

sudo apt-get install curl

curl http://apt.tvheadend.org/repo.gpg.key | sudo apt-key add -

then since sudo apt-add-repository http://apt.tvheadend.org/stable wasn't working I manually append /etc/apt/sources.list

sudo gedit /etc/apt/sources.list

I had to go to http://apt.tvheadend.org/stable with my web browser to figure out how to make the lines that I need. I could be wrong but it always seems to be in dists/. With ajaxplorer it was "stable main" but tvheadend was "saucy main" So I added the following 2 lines to /etc/apt/sources.list

deb http://apt.tvheadend.org/beta saucy main
deb-src http://apt.tvheadend.org/beta saucy main

then just sudo apt-get update and sudo apt-get install tvheadend

And everything seems to be working. So I hope this help someone else.

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