Lirc problem loading at start up.

[MLT]

Everything has been going fine on my mythbox and tried to make lirc begin at 
startup.
 
 I used the following command from the wiki:
 
 sudo update-rc.d lirc defaults
 
 This produced an error message that lirc was not installed.
 
 I then tried sudo update-rc.d lircd defaults as sudo lircd is the command I 
needed to type into make lirc work.
 
Also irw does not work any more and the backend doesn't start automatically 
now as did before.

Any ideas?

M