HOWTO: Compile and setup of Maxemum TV-Guide

[GoldBuggie]

A great TV-Guide application for your favourite channels that I just needed to share. Works for Canada, the USA, the UK, Germany, Austria, Finland, Spain, the Netherlands,Hungary, Denmark, Japan, Sweden, France, Norway, Belgium and Romania.



Needed packages:
sudo apt-get install xmltv xmltv-gui xmltv-util build-essential checkinstall
Download the latest source
http://sourceforge.net/project/showfiles.php?group_id=137586

Untar
tar xvzf maxemumtvguide-5.10.26.tar.gz (http://prdownloads.sourceforge.net/mtvg/maxemumtvguide-5.10.26.tar.gz?download)
cd <NAME OF DIRECTORY>
Compile, build and install
(uses checkinstall for .deb creation so that you can uninstall using regular apt/synaptic/adept)
./configure --prefix=/usr
make
sudo checkinstall -D make install
Configure which channels to fetch
To see which command to use for your country do a ls /usr/bin/tv_grab_*. For me it is Sweden so I will use that as an example below. Just substitute the command for your country.
tv_grab_se --configure
Fetch the channels info
tv_grab_se --output ~/.xmltv/tvguide.xml

Start Maxemum TV-Guide and configure the update button
maxemumtvguide goto preferences->updates and enter your XML TV-File /home/<USERNAME>/.xmltv/tvguide.xml and your update command tv_grab_se --output /home/<USERNAME>/.xmltv/tvguide.xml (make sure to use the full path to your xml-file since the application doesn't handle ~)

[htonl]

You can also download the prebuilt .deb package from http://downloads.sourceforge.net/mtvg/maxemumtvguide_7.3.2-1_i386.deb.

[Buzzdee]

For the other Germans among us: :)
Please use the grabber *_ch_search, this provides Swiss data, which is more or less the same as the German ones, some local programmes might be missing.