161. Compiling Me-TV 1.4 on debian testing/wheezy

Quite some time ago me-tv crapped out on me (it's working again as of 9 Jan 2013). While good things came out of it (set up vlc with dvb -- and the image quality is much better for some reason) me-tv does the whole EPG thing really well -- and VLC doesn't really.

[Edit: note that me-tv isn't actively developed anymore: https://answers.launchpad.net/me-tv/+question/216266.]

This 'guide' will put your metv in your home directory and won't interfere with the debian package version. --prefix is your friend, always.

me-tv 1.3.7-2 

Anyway, here's how to compile me-tv v 1.4.0.9

Start here
sudo apt-get install gnome-common libglibmm-2.4-dev libxml++2.6-dev libgtkmm-2.4-dev libgconfmm-2.6-dev libunique-dev libvlc-dev libgstreamer0.10-dev libgstreamer-plugins-base0.10-dev libsqlite3-dev libdbus-glib-1-dev

You'll probably need more than what I've shown above -- intltool, automake etc. But those packages were the ones that were missing on my particular system. As always, if a package is missing, do
aptitude search package|grep dev
and chances are that you find what you're looking for

Continuing...
mkdir ~/tmp
cd ~/tmp
wget https://launchpad.net/me-tv/1.4/1.4.0/+download/me-tv-1.4.0.9.tar.gz
tar xvf me-tv-1.4.0.9.tar.gz
cd me-tv-1.4.0.9/
./autogen.sh --prefix=/home/${USER}/.metv-1.4.0.9

Configure summary:
        Source code location .......: .
        Compiler ...................: gcc
        Compiler flags .............:  -O0 -g
        Enable compile warnings ....: minimum
        Enable more warnings .......: yes
        Extra Compiler Warnings ....: -g -O2 -Wall -Wno-unused  -Wextra -Wcast-align -Wcast-qual -Wcomment -Wformat -Wimplicit -Wmissing-braces -Wpacked -Wparentheses -Wpointer-arith -Wreturn-type -Wsequence-point -Wstrict-aliasing -Wstrict-aliasing=2 -Wswitch-default -Wundef
        Debug support ..............: yes
        Installing into prefix .....: /home/me/.metv-1.4.0.9
Type make to build Me TV 1.4.0.9

Now type `make' to compile Me TV

Who am I to argue with that?
make
make install 

Add ~/.metv-1.4.0.9/bin/ to your PATH
echo 'export PATH=$PATH:/home/${USER}/.metv-1.4.0.9/bin'>>~/.bashrc

(important that you use ' and not " )

Done.

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Toubleshooting:

If you get

2012-05-22 17:55:00: Me TV Server 1.4.0.9 started
2012-05-22 17:55:00: An unhandled exception was generated
2012-05-22 17:55:00: Error: The Me TV database version does not match the Me TV server version.

then you may shed a tear and
rm /home/${USER}/.local/share/me-tv/me-tv.db