64 bit Ubuntu 9.10 and Debian software packager

[lynnejohn]

I'm getting ready to finally move my SageTV server to a Linux platform. The planned setup would be:

Intel quad core processor (Gigabyte motherboard)
Hauppauge HD-PVR
HD200 (viewing)
CommandIR II External (channel changing on DirectTV Sat. decoder)

My question relates to the whole 64-bit vs. 32. Currently I installed Ubuntu 9.10 64 and using the Sage Debian packages, the installer complains of "Error: Wrong architecture 'i386'". So am I forced to go 32bit if I want the simplicity of the Debian installer? Can I use something like yumex and the tarball downloads?

Thanks........

[urband1]

First need to install 32 bit Java from Synaptic package manager (ia32-sun-java6-bin), change all the pointers in /etc/alternatives back to the 64 bit version of java (so other software can still run 64 bit), add a path variable to the beginning of startsage script in /opt/sagetv/server/ :

PATH=/usr/lib/jvm/ia32-java-6-sun/bin:$PATH

them follow instructions on website for loading dependancies (I only had to load faad2)

use sudo dpkg -i --force-architecture

to install .deb files from Sage.

Good Luck, I still cannot get the Sage version of mplayer to work with my video driver (or the Ubuntu version to work with Sage)

[ltburch2000]

If you are planning on using the Linux machine primarily as a sagetv server and not as a placeshifter client as well, going 64 bit isn't really worth it, though it most certainly can be done.

SageTV Server will run in 32 bit mode regardless of the OS it is running, besides the sage tv server itself consumes only a small amount of memory (300-400MB max).

My 32-bit SageTV server can easily record multiple HD streams while streaming HD to a client on an old AMD 4400 CPU.

However 64 bit and beefy CPU would make sense if the server has several other jobs, such as database servers, web servers, headless rendering, video conversions etc. or if it was a joint server/placeshifter meaning it would likely be running a bunch of GUI applications as well.