Ubuntu 22.04 LTS-TV Headend installation options

Jonas Lang · 2022-08-31T18:02:45+00:00

Just finished migrating from Ubuntu 18.04 LTS to Ubuntu 22.04 LTS and I'm looking at options for installing TVH. First thing that struck me was the use of Sn...

Flole

Right now there's only a single person who can manage doozer and apt.tvheadend.org, hence the switch as that's clearly not working. For Github there's all the "old" developers who have necessary privileges and for cloudsmith there's now me and @mpmc who have access. We are both kinda active, so that should be sufficient for now. If @perex or @andoma want access I'll happily grant it to them aswell.

Jonas Lang

Great news indeed. Nothing worse when admins disappear without a trace. I understand people live busy lives these days particularly when it comes to offering time and effort gratis. Not always appreciated either.

Shane Angelo

Hi All. Are there any instructions for migrating from https://apt.tvheadend.org/unstable to https://cloudsmith.io/~tvheadend/ for a working system? I have searched but cannot find information and the Wiki looks like initial install.

Flole

Just replace the URL in the sources list (or install the new repo and leave the old one as-is).

Shane Angelo

Followed the install via:

curl -1sLf \
'https://dl.cloudsmith.io/public/tvheadend/tvheadend/setup.deb.sh' \

| sudo -E bash

then

sudo apt install tvheadend

Says tvheadend is already the newest version (4.3-2027~ge3f4f222e~focal).

Not sure how to get it to update to 4.3-2069~gc9a156a25~jammy

Chris Wolfrum

I have also tried to update my running 4.2.8 installation without success.
I used the new installation instructions regarding the cloudsmith repositories, but it does not work.
Searching manually through https://cloudsmith.io/~tvheadend/repos/tvheadend/packages/ I found the reason.
In cloudsmith repository are "thousands" of different versions for a lot of distributions including Ubuntu 22.04 Jammy, but NOT for amd64. This particular version is missing.
Is there a technical reason why the jammy-amd64 package does not exist in cloudsmith?

Jonas Lang

Have you tried removing your current TVH installation first before attempting to install latest.

sudo apt remove tvheadend

All you configuration should remain in place giving you the latest version

Flole

Jammy was indeed missing for amd64 but it's currently being built, so it should become available shortly.

Shane Angelo

Confirmed now installed HTS Tvheadend 4.3-2070~g2beb6c9c8.

Needed to remove the previous sources.list entries in /etc/apt/sources.list.d/, add the new repository, remove the old install and re-install. Can confirm it kept my configs in place.

1. Remote sources.list

2. Install via:

curl -1sLf \

'https://dl.cloudsmith.io/public/tvheadend/tvheadend/setup.deb.sh' \ | sudo -E bash

3. apt remove tvheadend

4. apt install tvheadend

TOMillr

Just tried to install TVH on a fresh Ubuntu 24.04. Isn't TVH not yet available for the new release? Or where am I going wrong?

`curl -1sLf 'https://dl.cloudsmith.io/public/tvheadend/tvheadend/setup.deb.sh' | sudo -E bash
Executing the setup script for the 'tvheadend/tvheadend' repository ...

OK: Checking for required executable 'curl' ...
OK: Checking for required executable 'apt-get' ...
OK: Detecting your OS distribution and release using system methods ...
^^^^: ... Detected/provided for your OS/distribution, version and architecture:

:
: ... distro=ubuntu version=24.04 codename=noble arch=x86_64
:
OK: Checking for apt dependency 'apt-transport-https' ...
OK: Checking for apt dependency 'ca-certificates' ...
OK: Checking for apt dependency 'gnupg' ...
OK: Checking for apt signed-by key support ...
OK: Importing 'tvheadend/tvheadend' repository GPG keys ...
OK: Checking if upstream install config is OK ...
OK: Installing 'tvheadend/tvheadend' repository via apt ...
OK: Updating apt repository metadata cache ...
OK: The repository has been installed successfully - You're ready to rock!`

`sudo apt install tvheadend
Paketlisten werden gelesen… Fertig
Abhängigkeitsbaum wird aufgebaut… Fertig
Statusinformationen werden eingelesen… Fertig

No apt package "tvheadend", but there is a snap with that name.
Try "snap install tvheadend"

E: Paket tvheadend kann nicht gefunden werden.`

Jonas Lang

Don’t install the snap version of TVH. You could try adding this PPA first and then sudo apt install tvheadend from the Terminal
https://launchpad.net/~mamarley/+archive/ubuntu/tvheadend-git

TOMillr

Jonas Lang

I wasn't trying to install the snap version though. That's why I added the "official" repo on cloudsmith first like described in the download section.

However, apt install tvheadend doesn't find any package for 24.04 and just points me to the snap version. Has the version for 24.04 just noch yet been added to the repo?

Jonas Lang

I was just warning you in advance not to install the Snap version of TVH in case you attempted it. I provided a link to add a PPA in case you were having difficulty with what you were currently using.

As the title of this thread suggests it concerns Ubuntu 22.04 LTS and not Ubuntu 24.04. I suggest starting a new thread with your issue. You may also want to report your issue to TVH Github where it’s likely to have more visibility
tvheadend/tvheadendissues

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