Installing on SheevaPlug running Ubuntu Jaunty

Colin Law clanlaw at googlemail.com
Sun Aug 26 06:56:31 EDT 2012


On 26 August 2012 11:33, Jonathan Wiltshire <jmw at debian.org> wrote:
> On 2012-08-26 09:33, Colin Law wrote:
>>
>> Hi
>>
>> I would like to install get-iplayer on my SheevaPlug PC which is
>> running Jaunty.  I can't upgrade the PC because Ubuntu does not
>> support that Arm processor after Jaunty.  It is not in the Jaunty
>> repositories as far as I can see.  Google produced some hopeful
>> looking links but none of the links seemed to work.  Is this likely to
>> be possible, and if so are there any instructions somewhere for
>> installing it manually?
>
>
> get-iplayer itself is architecture independent, so installing it
> is easy though some dependencies might cause problems.
>
> Pick a link from http://packages.ubuntu.com/quantal/all/get-iplayer/download
> and:
>
> $ wget <link>
> $ sudo dpkg -i get-iplayer*_all.deb
> $ sudo aptitude install
>
> dpkg will whinge about missing dependencies, the aptitude call will walk you
> through installing them and finishing the configuration.

OK, thanks for that, it needed a couple of perl packages which was ok,
but now it needs rtmpdump or flvstreamer, neither of which are in the
repo.  So off to find rtmpdump for jaunty on sheeva, or may have to
try and build it.

Colin



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