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December 1st, 2008, 06:08 AM
I"m running Hardy Heron, and I was following the instructions to install Lirc from the Ubuntu documentation here: https://help.ubuntu.com/community/InstallLirc/Hardy. After installing via the Synaptic package manager, the instructions say I should expect to see some kind of configuration screen. I never saw it, so I wonder if something failed to install. I tried marking Lirc for re-install via Synaptic, and still no configuration screen.
Other information that may (or may not) be helpful: There is a lirc in /etc/init.d but when I try to run
sudo /etc/init.d/lirc start or
sudo /etc/init.d/lirc restart nothing happens, and there is no lircd running when I do a ps -ef | grep lircd. I also looked in /etc/lirc and there are some lirc configuration files (like lircd.conf) which I assume were supposed to get written by the package configuration tool, but they look pretty empty to me.
Should I have seen the package configuration screen? And if so, could this be the root cause of why Lirc is not running?
One last note, in Synaptic, I thought about completely removing Lirc and re-installing it, but when I marked it for removal, Synaptic looks like it wants to remove a bunch of other packages too, like Mythtv, which is what I have been struggling to get working for a few months now. So I basically chickened out of removing Lirc. Are my fears about having to start over with Mythtv unfounded?
Other information that may (or may not) be helpful: There is a lirc in /etc/init.d but when I try to run
sudo /etc/init.d/lirc start or
sudo /etc/init.d/lirc restart nothing happens, and there is no lircd running when I do a ps -ef | grep lircd. I also looked in /etc/lirc and there are some lirc configuration files (like lircd.conf) which I assume were supposed to get written by the package configuration tool, but they look pretty empty to me.
Should I have seen the package configuration screen? And if so, could this be the root cause of why Lirc is not running?
One last note, in Synaptic, I thought about completely removing Lirc and re-installing it, but when I marked it for removal, Synaptic looks like it wants to remove a bunch of other packages too, like Mythtv, which is what I have been struggling to get working for a few months now. So I basically chickened out of removing Lirc. Are my fears about having to start over with Mythtv unfounded?