Barry Samuels wrote:
I have set up a low-end machine with a TV adapter to run MythTV on the assumption that I wouldn't need X running on the back-end machine but I find that the mythtv-setup programme is graphical! So I need to install a lot of X packages just to run the setup.
Given that the backend will need to do a lot of "graphical" stuff (handle the TV cards and other input sources, transcode video, etc) I'm not surprised that the dependencies pull in X packages, although whether they're all needed in your setup I don't know.
Last I looked the MythTV forums and mailing lists were quite helpful, but I haven't looked at MythTV for a year or two so I'm a bit out of date (and never got a working system out of it, mostly as a result of not following through on the setup properly).
I'd be interested to see where you end up on this one.