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/showf...roup_id=137586

Untar

tar xvzf maxemumtvguide-5.10.26.tar.gz
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/mtv...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.