get_iplayer just stopped working

Carl Fletcher kernelbasher at gmail.com
Sun Jan 27 15:32:47 EST 2013


I'll look in to this tomorrow morning as it's been working fine on my  
openSUSE box
The OP has contacted me in the openSUSE forum too
Actually the openSUSE package of get_iplayer performs better than a Mint  
14 install I have with Jon's PPA

On Sun, 27 Jan 2013 19:29:02 -0000, dinkypumpkin <dinkypumpkin at gmail.com>  
wrote:

> On 27/01/2013 14:16, Alastair wrote:
>> I have uninstalled and re-installed get_iplayer and
>> rtmpdump from Packman repo as you have suggested.  Still getting the  
>> errors.
>
> Again, based on your original report, get_iplayer is not involved.  Did  
> you reinstall librtmp0 as well, and did you check that the versions of  
> rtmpdump and librtmp0 match?  If you remove librtmp0, dependent packages  
> like ffmpeg, mplayer and vlc will also be removed.  Just make note of  
> what you have to reinstall.  If you don't want to do that, you can try a  
> forced install of librtmp0 in the hope that it might repair things. Make  
> note of the librtmp.so.0 (see below) file size/date before and after the  
> install to see if it changed.
>
>> I have run the dependency check as you suggested and as far as I can  
>> see everything
>> checks out except "librtmp.so.0() (64bit)"  required by rtmpdump which  
>> I cannot find in
>> any of the "provides" lists using software manager.  Of course it might  
>> be under my nose
>> and fatigue has blurred my vision but if you have any ideas please let  
>> me know.
>
> librtmp.so.0 is provided by the librtmp0 package, and it should be the  
> same for 64-bit openSUSE. If "zypper what-provides librtmp.so.0" doesn't  
> show that, then something is wrong with your package database. The  
> library itself should be found at /usr/lib/librtmp.so.0.  If that file  
> were missing, you would see a "cannot open shared object file" rather  
> than a segfault, which is why I suspected a version mismatch rather than  
> a missing library.
>
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