Download A quick guide to installing Stable Tvheadend 4.2 Ubuntu 16+ for Linux newbies. :)

1. Create script file tvheadend_4.2_stable_install.sh
nano tvheadend_4.2_stable_install.sh

2. Copy paste to tvheadend_4.2_stable_install.sh
#!/bin/bash
apt-get install -y mc build-essential pkg-config libssl-dev git libavahi-client-dev libavcodec-dev libavfilter-dev libavformat-dev libavutil-dev libswscale-dev libavcodec-extra liburiparser1 liburiparser-dev debhelper libcurl4-gnutls-dev unzip gcc make cmake zip mercurial build-essential libproc-processtable-perl liba52-0.7.4-dev libdvbcsa-dev libiconv-hook1 libiconv-hook-dev dvb-apps unzip gcc make zip mercurial build-essential libproc-processtable-perl cmake libpcre2-8-0
cd /usr/src && git clone -b release/4.2 https://github.com/tvheadend/tvheadend.git && cd tvheadend && ./Autobuild.sh && cd .. && dpkg -i tvheadend_*.deb
exit 0

3. Save script file
control + o

4. Exit nano
control + x

5. Now make script executable and run script
chmod +x tvheadend_4.2_stable_install.sh && ./tvheadend_4.2_stable_install.sh

6. Set your username and password
the script ends with a dialog box for tvheadend username and password

7. Web user interface access
http://SERVER IP:9981

8. Done!
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