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William Peters, 2010-10-29 13:08

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This article describes how to build Tvheadend from source 
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Make sure you have avahi and subversion installed, these are required to build Tvheadend
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<pre>
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# emerge -av avahi subversion
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</pre>
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now create the following directories
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<pre>
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mkdir -p /opt/tvheadend/src
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</pre>
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now you need to check out the Tvheadend source code using svn
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<pre>
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svn co svn://svn.lonelycoder.com/hts/trunk/tvheadend /opt/tvheadend/src/
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</pre>
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now you need to prepare the Tvheadend source code
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<pre>
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cd /opt/tvheadend/src
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./configure --prefix=/opt/tvheadend 
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</pre>
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if all went well you can compile the Tvheadend source code
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<pre>
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make
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</pre>
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If the source is compiled with no errors you can install the compiled source
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<pre>
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make install
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</pre>
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if you want you can also create this init script to start Tvheadend at boot time
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/etc/init.d/tvheadend
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<pre>
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#!/sbin/runscript
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# Copyright 1999-2010 Gentoo Foundation
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# Distributed under the terms of the GNU General Public License v2
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# $Header:
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depend() {
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        need net
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}
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start() {
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        ebegin "Starting tvheadend"
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        start-stop-daemon --start \
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                --user ${TVHUSER} \
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                --exec ${TVHBIN} -- -C -f
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        eend $?
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}
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stop() {
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        ebegin "Stopping tvheadend"
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        start-stop-daemon --stop --quiet --name ${TVHNAME} --signal 2
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        eend $?
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}
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</pre>
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/etc/conf.d/tvheadend
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<pre>
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# /etc/conf.d/tvheadend: config file for /etc/init.d/tvheadend
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TVHROOT="/opt/tvheadend"
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TVHNAME="tvheadend"
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TVHBIN="${TVHROOT}/bin/${TVHNAME}"
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TVHUSER="${TVHNAME}"
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</pre>
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now set /etc/init.d/tvheadend as executable
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<pre>
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chmod +x /etc/init.d/tvheadend
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</pre>
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Create the tvheadend and add tvheadend to the group video
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<pre>
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useradd -d /opt/tvheadend/home/ -G tvheadend -s /sbin/nologin -m tvheadend
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gpasswd -a tvheadend video
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</pre>
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now you can try to start Tvheadend
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<pre>
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/etc/init.d/tvheadend start
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</pre>
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if this works fine you can also add it to runlevel default so Tvheadend starts automatically
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<pre>
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rc-update add tvheadend default
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</pre>
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now you can go to "http://hostname:9981/":http://hostname:9981/ and start using/configuring Tvheadend