Comments on: Setup Maxemum TV-Guide in Ubuntu

By: pugfantus

pugfantus — Mon, 23 Jul 2007 20:37:26 +0000

FYI, This still uses Zap2It for US listings, Zap2It/TMS is cutting off all access as of 9/1/07.

By: Iain Gray

Iain Gray — Wed, 18 Jul 2007 09:51:03 +0000

It was a bit of a faff to install this and on a standard Ubuntu install it does require the KDE headers to work. The instructions for configuring the xml and conf files needs to be clearer ie firstly need to use:

tv_grab_xx --configure

to create a conf file then

tv_grab_xx --output ~/.xmltv/tvguide.xml

This appears to work.

When its working its really good.

By: Ian MacGregor

Ian MacGregor — Wed, 18 Jul 2007 00:47:16 +0000

Using kubuntu 7.04

sudo apt-get install xmltv xmltv-gui xmltv-util wanted to install 36 new packages (7465kB of archives). Too much trouble if I decide I don’t want it.

Screw that, go to http://tvlistings.zap2it.com , no need to install or configure anyting

By: Cas

Cas — Sun, 08 Jul 2007 02:42:19 +0000

Addition to previous post: Installing the .deb works, but I had to install libfam0 before using dpkg.

BTW (for the admin of this site): Posting comments results in session errors, but the comments appear to work…

By: Cas

Cas — Sun, 08 Jul 2007 02:29:51 +0000

On Kubuntu, this tutorial does not work on a standard install. Firstly, the files required to install are 50 megs+, which seems a little bit much for a TV guide. After installing the required files, the ‘configure’-process requires X libraries, for which you need to install xorg-dev (another 30 megs). After that, it starts wining about Qt libs.. That is where I stopped…

For those trying this on a clean install of Kubuntu: Forget it (or good luck)…

By: NewBee

NewBee — Fri, 29 Jun 2007 09:40:24 +0000

I do get the error below while running ./configure --prefix=/usr
“checking for Qt… configure: error: Qt (>= Qt 3.0) (headers and libraries) not found. Please check your installation!”
Do you know what i need to install to get Qt ?
And what does --prefix=/usr mean ? Do i change the path of where the application will be installed, and is it possible to do that with all apps that i am configuring ?
Thanks