Building a mythtv box on fedora core 6

Here are the steps I go through to build a mythtv box on fedora core 6. I have based this off of Jarod Wilson’s great guide.

• Start of with a fc6 install from dvd.
• Install the following items

• Desktop Environments -> KDE (K Desktop Environment)
• Applications -> Graphical Internet
• Applications -> Sound and Video
• Servers -> MySQL Database
• Servers -> Web Server

Optionally, you might also want to add these groups:

• Servers -> Windows File Server
• Servers -> Network Servers -> vnc-server
• Development -> Development Libraries
• Development -> Development Tools

• yum -y install switchdesk
• switchdesk kde
• yum -y upgrade
• echo “export KVER=\`uname -r\`” >> /etc/profile.d/kver.sh
• mount any nfs file systems you want
• yum remove sendmail
• yum -y install postfix mutt mdadm iptraf dstat freenx net-snmp usbutils
• change /etc/postfix/main.cf to relay email to internet mail server and hostname to be valid.
• reboot
• turn screen saver off
• cd /etc/yum.repos.d/
• wget http://wilsonet.com/mythtv/atrpms.repo
• wget http://wilsonet.com/mythtv/freshrpms.repo
• wget http://ATrpms.net/RPM-GPG-KEY.atrpms
• rpm –import RPM-GPG-KEY.atrpms
• yum remove pcsc-lite-libs
• yum upgrade
• yum -y install yum-plugin-kmdl
• yum -y install nvidia-graphics9755-kmdl-$KVER
• yum -y install nvidia-graphics9755-libs nvidia-graphics9755
• yum -y install ivtv-firmware
• yum -y install ivtv-kmdl-$KVER
• yum -y install lirc-kmdl-$KVER
• yum -y install lirc
• cp /offline/files/lirc/lirc.modules /etc/sysconfig/modules/
• cp /offline/files/lirc/lircd.conf /etc
• cp /offline/files/lirc/lircrc /home/desktop/.mythtv
• ln -s /home/desktop/.mythtv/lircrc /home/desktop/.lircrc
• chkconfig lircd on
• service lircd start
• yum -y install libiec61883-utils
• yum -y install mythtv-suite
• yum -y install phpMyAdmin
• yum -y install alsa-kmdl-$KVER
• yum -y install alsa-driver
• chkconfig mysqld on
• service mysqld start
• Optimize mysql /etc/my.cnf under [mysqld]

• key_buffer = 16M
• table_cache = 128
• sort_buffer_size = 2M
• myisam_sort_buffer_size = 8M
• query_cache_size = 16M

• change root password for mysql via phpMyAdmin
• make changes to fstab to mount any drives you want or nfs mounts
• put mythtv themes on the box that I want
• make changes or copy xorg.conf file
• either copy smartd.conf and smtpd.conf files or edit
• chkconf smartd on
• chkconf snmpd on
• yum -y install lm_sensors
• sensors-detect
• copy phpsysinfo and then make a phpsysinfo.conf file in /etc/httpd/conf.d
• lock down mythweb, phpMyAdmin, phpsysinfo. Great how-to on locking down mythweb.
• edit .htaccess file in mythweb folder to update mysql settings
• if mythweb is the only thing you want on your httpd server just put <?php header(“Location: /mythweb”); ?> into a index.php file and you should be all set
• chkconfig httpd on
• cp /offline/dvr/scripts/myth-load.sh /home/desktop/.kde/Autostart
• make sure that all mysql.txt files including /.mythtv in the root of the box is correct.
• reboot and box should be pretty much ready. This setup is for a slave backend
• nano /usr/share/xsessions/mythtv.desktop
  [Desktop Entry]
  Encoding=UTF-8
  Name=MythTV
  Comment=Use this session to run MythTV
  Exec=/usr/local/bin/mythtv.sh
  Icon=
  Type=Application
• nano /usr/local/bin/mythtv.sh
  gnome-screensaver
  mythfrontend&
  killall irexec
  irexec -d
  nvidia-settings -l
  mtd -d
  exec openbox
• chmod +x /usr/local/bin/mythtv.sh