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Adam Sutton, 2012-08-23 10:22

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h1. Packaging
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To be able to install TVHeadend permanently on your system, or distribute to others, its highly recommend that you build a package.
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But before you can do this make sure you have read the basic build instructions [[Building|here]]
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Different distributions will have different package formats, however TVHeadend comes with scripts to help build several common ones.
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h2. Ubuntu / Debian
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To build a deb package for the latest version of Ubuntu (Precise, at the time of writing) you can do the following:
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> x86 32-bit
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<pre>
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$ ./AutoBuild.sh -t precise-i386
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</pre>
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> x86 64-bit
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<pre>
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$ ./AutoBuild.sh -t precise-amd64
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</pre>
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Note: Although the scripts are named precise (for Ubuntu 12.04) they will work just fine with most recent versions of Debian/Ubuntu.
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h2. Redhat/CentOS/Fedora
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TODO: add info on building an RPM
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h2. Gentoo
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TODO: add info on build ebuild.
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h2. Package Maintainers
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If you wish to become a package maintainer for your favourite distribution, please contact a member of the development [[Team|team]].