14.04 LTS (Trusty Tahr)
16.04 LTS (Xenial Xerus)
18.04 LTS (Bionic Beaver)
20.04 LTS (Focal Fossa)
22.04 LTS (Jammy Jellyfish)

Debian 8 (Jessie)
Debian 9 (Stretch)
Debian 10 (Buster)
Debian 11 (Bullseye)
Debian 12 (Bookworm)

Status¶

(/) Development is the recommended choice for most people as Stable is very out-of-date at the moment.

2021/08/15 : Unstable builds are available for Debian Bullseye on amd64 and i386.

Please report any issues here - #5264.

Build Types¶

But, where's release?!

We've decided not to offer "frozen" builds anymore, this is so that people get fixes much sooner. Those that are currently using release can modify their apt sources to stable, or continue as they are now, and move when they feel ready.

Supported Distros and Architectures¶

Rather than listing all the supported distros please take a look at the directory listing on apt.tvheadend.org for your chosen build type.

¹ Transcoding support is unavailable on some builds/distros.

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Usage¶

Here are some copy/paste examples on how to use the repo that should work for most².

1. Install Required Packages and add the Repository PGP key OUTDATED¶

sudo apt-get -y install coreutils wget apt-transport-https lsb-release ca-certificates

sudo wget -qO- https://doozer.io/keys/tvheadend/tvheadend/pgp | sudo apt-key add -

Note: apt-key on some newer distros may fail as it's no longer available, in such cases please run the following command instead.

wget -qO- https://doozer.io/keys/tvheadend/tvheadend/pgp | sudo tee /etc/apt/trusted.gpg.d/tvheadend.asc

² We assume you have sudo installed. If not, and you're root, you can omit sudo, otherwise please ask your administrator to..

apt-get install sudo; usermod -aG sudo <your account name>

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2. Create/Add the Sources List¶

Raspbian users (and anyone else who can't install/use lsb-release) please see the third footnote³.

Stable:

sudo sh -c 'echo "deb https://apt.tvheadend.org/stable $(lsb_release -sc) main" | tee -a /etc/apt/sources.list.d/tvheadend.list'

Unstable:

sudo sh -c 'echo "deb https://apt.tvheadend.org/unstable $(lsb_release -sc) main" | tee -a /etc/apt/sources.list.d/tvheadend.list'

³ Unfortunately you won't be able to use the command, at least not in the way it's shown, you need to replace " $(lsb_release -sc)" with "raspbian-stretch", "raspbian-jessie" or your distros code-name.

³⁰⁰¹ Examples..

echo "deb http://apt.tvheadend.org/stable raspbian-jessie main" | sudo tee -a /etc/apt/sources.list.d/tvheadend.list
echo "deb http://apt.tvheadend.org/stable raspbian-stretch main" | sudo tee -a /etc/apt/sources.list.d/tvheadend.list

³⁰⁰² Tip: If you want to use unstable, simply replace stable with unstable.

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3. Update Sources and Install¶

sudo apt-get update
sudo apt-get install tvheadend

Tip: On some installs (generally fresh ones) you might be asked to enter some details. If you'd like to reconfigure these details later, you can run..

sudo dpkg-reconfigure tvheadend

sudo service tvheadend restart

Job done!

Help / Feedback¶

Please add to issue #5264 or join the IRC channel to report problems/give feedback.