APT Repositories¶

• Table of contents
• APT Repositories
  • Official
    • • Status
    • Build Types
    • Supported Distros and Architectures
    • Usage
      • 1. Install Required Packages and add the Repository PGP key
      • 2. Create/Add the Sources List
      • 3. Update Sources and Install
    • Help / Feedback
  • Third-party
    • (Older) Official Bintray
      • What Happened to the Bintray Repository?
    • Help
    • Ubuntu PPA
      • Status
      • Usage
      • Help

Official¶

Our official repository and packages are provided by Doozer on https://apt.tvheadend.org.

Status¶

10/23/2018 - Some TLS issues on older distros - see #5264.
11/19/2018 - Newer builds for Raspbian Jessie/Stretch and Xenial armhf are stuck, older versions still available, will resolve ASAP.

Build Types¶

Build Type	Description	Version	Repo Component
Stable	Latest release and fixes	v4.2.7-*~githash	stable
Development	Development builds	v4.3.*-*~githash	unstable

Stable is the recommended choice for most people.
Development is for those who want to help develop and test the latest code.

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¶

Distro	Code-name	Architectures	Notes
Debian Stretch 9	stretch	amd64, i386	None
Debian Jessie 8	jessie	amd64, i386	See footnote 11
Ubuntu Bionic 18.04	bionic	amd64, i386	None
Ubuntu Xenial 16.04	xenial	amd64, i386, arm64	See footnote 11 - applies to arm64 only
Ubuntu Trusty 14.04	trusty	amd64, i386	None
Raspbian Stretch 9	raspbian-stretch	armhf	See footnote 11
Raspbian Jessie 8	raspbian-jessie	armhf	See footnote 11

¹ Transcoding support is unavailable on these 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¶

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 -

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

and afterwards..

sudo service tvheadend restart

Job done!

Help / Feedback¶

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

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Third-party¶

Third-party repositories are provided as-is and supported by the person who manages them, we cannot guarantee that we'll be able to help with issues relating to the use of these packages/repositories. The older official Bintray is exempt from this (Yes we know it's not technically third party ).

In any case we'll try our best to help, or point you to where you can get some!

(Older) Official Bintray¶

This is our older official Bintray repository, packages are built using Doozer, the repository itself is provided by Bintray via https://bintray.com/tvheadend.

What Happened to the Bintray Repository?¶

Unfortunately due to rate-limiting we've decided to phase-out (SLOWLY) the use of Bintray. Don't worry the repository won't be disappearing⁴, it just won't be updated - sorry about that.

You can continue to use Bintray if you like, old instructions can be viewed here.

Tip: You can use both apt.tvheadend.org and bintray.com/tvheadend

⁴ mpmc's third-party Bintray repository will still be updated regularly, so Raspbian users don't panic - see the link above for usage. However, it's now recommended that you use the official repo.

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Help¶

Please tell us here #5264, make sure you mention you're using Bintray. You can also join the IRC channel if you prefer.

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Ubuntu PPA¶

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

Status¶

Please see here and here for PPA status.

Usage¶

1. Pick a Build Type

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

2. Update Sources

sudo apt update

3. 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.