After spending hours trying to hunt down repositories for this I found this post: https://forum.armbian.com/topic/8328-install-compile-tvheadend/

Following it I can add the repository and update ok, but the package tvheadend is not found:

 

root@orangepizero:~# apt update
Hit:1 http://security.debian.org buster/updates InRelease
Hit:2 http://ppa.launchpad.net/mamarley/tvheadend-git-stable/ubuntu hirsute InRelease
Hit:3 http://deb.debian.org/debian buster InRelease
Hit:4 http://deb.debian.org/debian buster-updates InRelease
Hit:5 http://deb.debian.org/debian buster-backports InRelease
Get:6 https://armbian.tnahosting.net/apt buster InRelease [18.3 kB]
Fetched 18.3 kB in 5s (3,675 B/s)
Reading package lists... Done
Building dependency tree
Reading state information... Done
All packages are up to date.
root@orangepizero:~# apt install tvheadend
Reading package lists... Done
Building dependency tree
Reading state information... Done
E: Unable to locate package tvheadend

 

Is buster not supported in this repository? How can I find out which version of Armbian is?

1 hour ago, hello_world.c said:

How can I find out which version of Armbian is?

 

cat /etc/armbian-release

https://docs.armbian.com/#what-is-armbian

https://www.computerhope.com/unix/lsb_release.htm
 

1 hour ago, hello_world.c said:

Is buster not supported in this repository?

 

You are facing a Debian bug which incorrectly set sources list when adding sources via PPA ...  

 

Did you try to install tvheadend from armbian-config before going random internet hint way?

 

1 hour ago, hello_world.c said:

After spending hours trying to hunt down repositories for this I found this post

Where it clearly said: "its for Ubuntu". You are using Buster.

49 minutes ago, Igor said:

You are facing a Debian bug which incorrectly set sources list when adding sources via PPA ...  

 

Is this properly called a bug?  I thought PPA were simply not supported as repos in Debian?

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Did you try to install tvheadend from armbian-config before going random internet hint way?

 

 

Didn't know this is possible from armbian-config. Will try this, good info, thanks!
 

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Where it clearly said: "its for Ubuntu". You are using Buster.

 

Just googled this a bit. So,, Armbian Buster is the one based on Debian and Focal is based on Ubuntu it seems. This is some key information. It must be clear as day to the pros working with Armbian every day, but for the "simple user", not necessarily. Makes sense now.

 

So, switching to Focal and trying the ppa method will be my 2nd option if armbian-config doesn't do it. Will report back.

50 minutes ago, TRS-80 said:

simply not supported as repos in Debian?

 

Good question. Don't know but I know it doesn't work properly on Debian. 

 

1 minute ago, hello_world.c said:

Will report back.

 

One variant / correct combination will certainly work. I used to run tvheadend for many years. Always on Armbian.

Installing tvheadend from armbian-config (Softy submodule) worked fine. Only had to finalize the installation with apt afterwards to set up user, credentials, service.

 

Wish I'd known about Softy before...

1 hour ago, hello_world.c said:

Only had to finalize the installation with apt afterwards to set up user, credentials, service.

I tested on a clean system - everything is done automatically - you just need to login via web and deal with tvheadend.