Tvheadend binary packages can be downloaded from https://apt.tvheadend.org or you can configure a local package repo to install and update from by running the following shell commands:
Run the following shell command to setup a local apt repo:
curl -1sLf 'https://dl.cloudsmith.io/public/tvheadend/tvheadend/setup.deb.sh' | sudo -E bash
Run the following shell command to setup a local dnf or yum repo:
curl -1sLf 'https://dl.cloudsmith.io/public/tvheadend/tvheadend/setup.rpm.sh' | sudo -E bash
Tvheadend aims to provide installable packages for as long as possible to extend the usable life of server and tuner hardware. In practice this means if we can still automate regular build testing for popular distributions and versions we will have binaries available.
Please refer to development documentation on compiling Tvheadend from source