Mythtv in Ubuntu's future?

[Pascal Hos]

CowPiw,

Assuming you have already installed the mysql server you need to
create the database and the user, although the user might be there
already. Check the following page for instructions for debian, which
if followed will work for ubuntu as well.

http://www.wilson-stowe.com/family/content/view/24/45/

Good luck


On Thu, 3 Feb 2005 15:30:49 -0500, CowPie <ulist at gs1.ubuntuforums.org> wrote:
> 
> cseg Wrote:
> > Last time I installed from Debian, it seemed easy:
> >
> > apt-get install mythtv-frontend
> > apt-get install mythtv-backend
> >
> > (or something like that).
> >
> > I can't remember which repositiory I was using at the time, but I
> > thought it was one of the standard Debian mirrors.
> Hi, i just tried this.  When I start mythtv in terminal, it says:
> 
> Unable to read configuration file mysql.txt
> Unable to connect to database!
> Driver error was [1/2002]:
> QMYSQL3: Unable to connect
> Database error was:
> Can't connect to local MySQL server through socket
> '/var/run/mysqld/mysqld.sock' (2)
> 
> couldn't open db
> 
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