Updated Sep 06, 2009 by moy...@yahoo.com
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KMTTG LINUX INSTALLATION

1. INSTALL JAVA IF NEEDED

Kmttg is now written in Java (originally used Perl) and supports Java 1.5 or later. You can download Java Runtime Environment (JRE) from here:

http://java.com/en/download/manual.jsp

2. DOWNLOAD KMTTG INSTALLATION ZIP FILE

Download kmttg installation zip file from:

http://code.google.com/p/kmttg/downloads/list

kmttg_vxxx.zip file – This contains the platform independent kmttg installation files
v0p6a or later are Java versions. Versions prior to that were Perl based and should no longer be used.

3. UNPACK ZIP FILE

Unpack kmttg_vxxx.zip file to your desired location. In this example: /home/moyekj/kmttg

TIP

If upgrading from a previous Java kmttg installation you can unzip over the previous installation or just replace the kmttg.jar file of the old installation with the one from the new installation. That way you can preserve the kmttg configuration and avoid having to re-configure. NOTE: In some cases there are other files such as encoding profiles updated as part of a release, so you can also just unzip the file over the top of your previous installation to make sure you overwrite all files that make up an installation.

STARTING KMTTG

Run the kmttg script in the installation folder to start kmttg (in this example /home/moyekj/kmttg/kmttg).
The first time launch you will be prompted for your 10 digit Media Access Key (MAK) which is needed to download & decrypt programs from your Tivos. If you already have a ~/.tivodecode_mak file containing the MAK number then kmttg will automatically read it from there.

NOTE: kmttg may detect Tivos on your network before you have a chance to enter the 10 digit MAK, and will not be able to get listings for detected Tivos without MAK, so after entering MAK you will need to click on Refresh List button for each Tivo to get listings.

kmttg uses "which" to try and determine the location of the various 3rd party tools. If you don't have them in your PATH then you will need to manually specify the locations of the tools if you have them.
You will probably need to further configure kmttg after installation. Consult the configuring_kmttg wiki page for details.

USING WINE TO RUN WINDOWS ONLY TOOLS

Some tools used by kmttg only run on Windows platform, however can be made to run on Linux platform using wine (tool to run Windows binaries on Linux platform). As an example, the following t2extract script can be made to run Windows T2Sami t2extract (used for creating captions files):

Create following script called t2extract:

#! /bin/sh
wine "C:\\Program Files\\T2Sami\\t2extract.exe" -f srt -p `dirname "$3"` "$3" "$4" "$5" "$6" "$7" "$8" "$9"

Make it executable:

chmod +x t2extract

Under kmttg config enter full path to the script as t2extract executable.

Comment by webmas...@technoplaza.net, Sep 13, 2009

I have made an ebuild for kmttg which is now available in the gentoo sunrise overlay. So gentoo users can use emerge kmttg to install kmttg now. For information on the sunrise overlay (including installation instructions), see http://overlays.gentoo.org/proj/sunrise.

Comment by webmas...@technoplaza.net, Dec 04, 2009

You can use a similar script for comskip on wine.

#! /bin/sh

wine "C:\\Program Files\\comskip\\comskip.exe" --ini "$2" "$3"

You cannot supply extra quoted parameters, as they are (mis)interpreted by comskip.

You will need to create the ~/.wine/drive_c/Program\ Files/comskip directory and unzip the comskip windows binary there. I also created a ~/.comskip directory and made a symlink to the comskip.ini file to simplify the path in kmttg settings.