SageTV 7 - Arch Linux 2013.10.01 Install HOWTO

[bcjenkins]

This tutorial picks up from a base install of Arch Linux and adds: Oracle Java, SSH, NTP, WINE, Comskip, SageTV

All actions performed as root user unless otherwise stipulated.

STEP 1: Add SSH, NTP, base-dev to system

pacman -S base-dev openssh ntp
systemctl enable sshd.service
echo "logfile /var/log/ntp.log" >> /etc/ntp.conf
systemctl start ntpd
systemctl enable ntpd
#Confirm Date/Time
timedatectl status
#Set time if needed Eg. timedatectl set-time "2013-10-02 11:05:30"
#If time set manually execute: ntpd -q

STEP 2: Add SageTV

mkdir -p /opt/sagetv/server
cd /opt/sagetv/server
curl -O http://download.sage.tv/linuxbeta/server_7.1.9.tar.gz
tar xvzf server_7.1.9.tar.gz
rm server_7.1.9.tar.gz
mkdir -p /var/media/{tv,videos,music,pictures} #Multiple TV directories for mounting additional storage drives

STEP 3: Add sagesettings file with tweaks for memory and running as non-privileged user

cat > /opt/sagetv/server/sagesettings <<EOF
#Placed here for ArchLinux JRE Install
export PATH=/opt/jre/bin:$PATH
## End
PIDFILE=/opt/sagetv/server/sagetv.pid
HEADLESS=true
JAVAMEM=-Xmx1024m
mkdir -p /var/tmp/sage
JAVAOPTS="-Djava.io.tmpdir=/var/tmp/sage -XX:ThreadPriorityPolicy=42"
EOF

STEP 4: Setup Oracle Java

curl -b gpw_e24=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.oracle.com -O -L 'http://download.oracle.com/otn-pub/java/jdk/7u40-b43/jre-7u40-linux-i586.tar.gz'
tar xvzf jre-7u40-linux-i586.tar.gz 
ln -s /opt/jre1.7.0_40 /opt/jre
chown -R root:root jre1.7.0_40
rm jre-7u40-linux-i586.tar.gz

STEP 5: Setup 32-bit libs for Java, SageTV, and Wine - Wine is used for Comskip

pacman -S lib32-glibc lib32-libstdc++5 lib32-gcc-libs lib32-zlib lib32-freetype2 mesa-libgl lib32-mesa-libgl mpg123 libpng lib32-ncurses wine

STEP 6: Setup ifconfig for SageTV. Activation and runtime uses. Arch Linux doesn't supply and this works.

cat > /usr/bin/ifconfig <<EOF
#!/bin/bash
ip addr
EOF
chmod +x /bin/ifconfig

STEP 7: Activate SageTV

cd /opt/sagetv/server
export PATH=/opt/jre/bin:$PATH
./keygen.sh

STEP 8: Setup non-privileged user

useradd -G video -M -N -d /opt/sagetv sagetv
chown -R sagetv:users /opt/sagetv /var/media/{tv,videos,music,pictures}

STEP 9: Start SageTV

su -c /opt/sagetv/server/startsage sagetv