APT Repositories¶

• Table of contents
• APT Repositories
  • Official Repositories
    • Status
    • Build Types, Versions and Repository Availability
      • Distribution Code-names
    • Usage
      • 1. Install GPG keys
      • 2. Choose build type add the repository
      • 3. Refresh packages and install
    • Help
  • Unofficial Repositories
    • Ubuntu PPA
      • Usage
      • Help
    • Raspberry Pi / Raspbian armhf
      • Usage
      • Help

Official Repositories¶

The official packages are build using Doozer. The repositories are provided by Doozer (at http://apt.tvheadend.org) and Bintray (at https://bintray.com/tvheadend).

Status¶

9/4/2018: No reported issues.

Build Types, Versions and Repository Availability¶

Our repositories differ slightly in structure and package availability.

Where are packages for my distro/arch? At the moment Doozer only has support for a limited number of build targets, new ones will be added as soon as possible. Take a look at the 3rd-party repos below or build your own.

Repository	Version	Supported Distros and Architectures	Build Type / Repo Component
Doozer	4.2.6-x (stable)	✓ amd64: Debian: Stretch and Jessie, Ubuntu: Bionic, Trusty and Xenial ✓ armhf/arm64: Ubuntu Xenial ⚠ i386: Debian: Stretch and Jessie, Ubuntu: Trusty and Xenial	stable
Doozer	4.3.x (unstable)	✓ amd64: Debian: Stretch and Jessie, Ubuntu: Bionic, Trusty and Xenial ✓ armhf/arm64: Ubuntu Xenial ✓ armhf: Raspbian: Jessie and Stretch ⚠ i386: Debian: Stretch and Jessie, Ubuntu: Trusty and Xenial	unstable
Bintray	4.2.6 (release-4.2)	✓ amd64: Debian: Stretch and Jessie, Ubuntu: Trusty and Xenial ✓ armhf/arm64: Ubuntu Xenial ⚠ i386: Debian: Stretch and Jessie, Ubuntu: Trusty and Xenial	release-4.2
Bintray	4.2.6-x (stable-4.2)	✓ amd64: Debian: Stretch and Jessie, Ubuntu: Bionic, Trusty and Xenial ✓ i386: Debian: Stretch and Jessie, Ubuntu: Bionic, Trusty and Xenial ✓ armhf/arm64: Ubuntu Xenial	stable-4.2
Bintray	4.3.x (unstable)	✓ amd64: Debian: Stretch and Jessie, Ubuntu: Bionic, Trusty and Xenial ✓ i386: Debian: Stretch and Jessie, Ubuntu: Bionic, Trusty and Xenial ✓ armhf/arm64: Ubuntu Xenial	unstable

✓ = Repository supports that distro and architecture.
⚠ = Repository doesn't support certain distros and architectures, and/or packages may have missing features, i.e, transcoding.

Distribution Code-names¶

Distro	Code-name
Debian Stretch 9	stretch
Debian Jessie 8	jessie
Ubuntu Bionic 18.04	bionic
Ubuntu Xenial 16.04	xenial
Ubuntu Trusty 14.04	trusty
Raspbian Stretch 9	raspbianstretch
Raspbian Jessie 8	raspbianjessie

Usage¶

1. Install GPG keys¶

Bintray:

sudo apt-key adv --keyserver hkp://keyserver.ubuntu.com:80 --recv-keys 379CE192D401AB61 

Doozer (apt.tvheadend.org):

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

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If you see something like the following:

Executing: /tmp/apt-key-gpghome666/gpg.1.sh --keyserver hkp://keyserver.ubuntu.com:80 --recv-keys 379CE192D401AB61
gpg: failed to start the dirmngr '/usr/bin/dirmngr': No such file or directory
gpg: connecting dirmngr at '/run/user/0/gnupg/d.1234/S.dirmngr' failed: No such file or directory
gpg: keyserver receive failed: No dirmngr

You need to install dirmngr:

sudo apt-get install dirmngr

Once installed add the key again, it should succeed this time.

2. Choose build type add the repository¶

• Replace DISTRO with the distribution's code name - use the Code-name for your distro (as shown in the Distribution Code-names table above).
• Replace REPO-COMPONENT with the desired build type - use the Build Type / Repo Component (as shown in the Build Types, Versions and Repository Availability table above).
• Watch out for subtle differences, be sure to check the repository has your desired build type and component.
• Pay special attention to the difference between stable-4.2 (on Bintray) and stable (on Doozer).

Bintray:

echo "deb https://dl.bintray.com/tvheadend/deb DISTRO REPO-COMPONENT" | sudo tee /etc/apt/sources.list.d/tvheadend.list

Example:

echo "deb https://dl.bintray.com/tvheadend/deb xenial stable-4.2" | sudo tee /etc/apt/sources.list.d/tvheadend.list

Doozer

echo "deb http://apt.tvheadend.org/REPO-COMPONENT DISTRO main" | sudo tee -a /etc/apt/sources.list.d/tvheadend.list

Example:

echo "deb http://apt.tvheadend.org/unstable xenial main" | sudo tee -a /etc/apt/sources.list.d/tvheadend.list

3. Refresh packages and install¶

sudo apt-get update
sudo apt-get install tvheadend

Note: if you install more than one suite you will only ever get packages from the one holding the most recent version number, so the order of priority would be:

unstable > stable-4.2 > stable

Help¶

Please open an issue or join the IRC channel to report problems with the official repository.

Unofficial Repositories¶

3rd-party unofficial repositories.

Ubuntu PPA¶

Unofficial PPAs are provided by Michael Marley that provide packages for Artful, Zesty, Yakkety, and Xenial for the amd64, arm64, armhf, i386 and ppc64el architectures.

Usage¶

First, pick either the Stable or Unstable build:

For the Stable PPA containing daily builds from the latest stable branch:

sudo apt-add-repository ppa:mamarley/tvheadend-git-stable

For the Unstable PPA containing daily builds from master:

sudo apt-add-repository ppa:mamarley/tvheadend-git

Then, for both:

Update your packages:

sudo apt update

Install:

sudo apt install tvheadend

Help¶

If you experience issues with this PPA please contact Michael on IRC (mamarley in #hts on Freenode) or Launchpad.

Raspberry Pi / Raspbian armhf¶

Unofficial Raspbian packages are provided by mpmc for both Raspbian Jessie and Stretch.

• These builds are done manually and may lag behind, however I'll do my best to keep them updated until the official repo is able to provide the packages.
• There's no transcoding support, mainly because the Pi isn't powerful enough to do software transcoding and hardware transcoding is not yet available.
• There is no changes to the code whatsoever for these builds.
• Make sure to enter the distro as raspbianjessie/raspbianstretch and not jessie/stretch.

Usage¶

To use this repository follow the official usage guide - for bintray, but change the repository URL from https://dl.bintray.com/tvheadend/deb to https://dl.bintray.com/mpmc/deb and replace DISTRO with raspbianstretch or raspbianjessie.

Example:

echo "deb https://dl.bintray.com/mpmc/deb raspbianstretch stable-4.2" | sudo tee /etc/apt/sources.list.d/tvheadend.list

Help¶

If you experience issues with this repository contact mpmc on github or send a message on IRC (mpmc in #hts on Freenode).