Tvheadend

h1. Packaging

To be able to install TVHeadend permanently on your system, or distribute to others, its highly recommend that you build a package.

But before you can do this make sure you have read the basic build instructions [[Building|here]]

Different distributions will have different package formats, however TVHeadend comes with scripts to help build several common ones.

h2. Ubuntu / Debian

To build a deb package for the latest version of Ubuntu (Precise, at the time of writing) you can do the following:

> x86 32-bit
<pre>
$ ./Autobuild.sh -t precise-i386
</pre>

> x86 64-bit
<pre>
$ ./Autobuild.sh -t precise-amd64
</pre>

Note: Although the scripts are named precise (for Ubuntu 12.04) they will work just fine with most recent versions of Debian/Ubuntu.

Note: the generated deb will be in the directory above that containing Autobuild.sh (i.e. outside of the tvheadend directory).

Note: the -dbg package contains debug symbols, generally you won't need these.

h3. Configure Options

You can also pass specific configuration options to the configure script by setting the _AUTOBUILD_CONFIGURE_EXTRA_ environment variable.

<pre>
$ AUTOBUILD_CONFIGURE_EXTRA=--enable-bundle ./Autobuild.sh -t precise-amd64
</pre>

h2. Redhat/CentOS/Fedora

TODO: add info on building an RPM

h2. Gentoo

tvheadend is now available in portage so you can just install it like you usually do with other applications:
<pre>
$ emerge -av media-tv/tvheadend
</pre>

h2. Package Maintainers

If you wish to become a package maintainer for your favourite distribution, please contact a member of the development [[Team|team]].