GIP 2.95 reports as v2.83 in Linux Mint!!!

[Alan Milewczyk]

On 04/07/16 18:16, Alan Milewczyk wrote:
> On 04/07/16 16:24, Alan Milewczyk wrote:
>> I'm puzzled......
>>
>> I'm in the process of converting most of my PCs (except two) to Linux 
>> Mint and decided to install GIP2.95 on one of those Linux Mint 17.3 
>> Cinnamon x64 systems.
>>
>> I downloaded GIP from the get-iplayer PPA, extracted and installed it.
>>
>> Did a get_iplayer --refresh only to find it's reporting as being 
>> v2.83 and searching for BBC Three feeds:
>>
>> get_iplayer v2.83, Copyright (C) 2008-2010 Phil Lewis
>>   This program comes with ABSOLUTELY NO WARRANTY; for details use 
>> --warranty.
>>   This is free software, and you are welcome to redistribute it under 
>> certain
>>   conditions; use --conditions for details.
>>
>> INFO: Getting tv Index Feeds
>> WARNING: Failed to get programme index feed for bbcthree from iplayer 
>> site
>> ..................
>> Added: 1:    BBC iPlayer Feeds - -, BBC Three, HD,Highlights,Popular, 
>> default,audiodescribed,signed,
>> Matches:
>> 1:    BBC iPlayer Feeds - -, BBC Three, HD,Highlights,Popular, 
>> default,audiodescribed,signed,
>>
>> INFO: 1 Matching Programmes
>>
>>
>> I've looked at the source code and it's indicating it's v2.95, so I'm 
>> well and truly puzzled. 
>
> Ooops, I did install v2.83 (totally forgot I'd done it) but now having 
> problems uninstalling it:
>
> sudo apt-get autoremove get_iplayer
> Reading package lists... Done
> Building dependency tree
> Reading state information... Done
> E: Unable to locate package get_iplayer
>

Grr really getting my knickers in a  twist here! :-( It seems v2.83 was 
installed as get-iplayer, so I've tried uninstalling that too.

But if I do: apt-cache show get-iplayer, I get the following:

Package: get-iplayer
Priority: optional
Section: universe/video
Installed-Size: 604
Maintainer: Ubuntu Developers <ubuntu-devel-discuss at lists.ubuntu.com>
Original-Maintainer: Jonathan Wiltshire <jmw at debian.org>
Architecture: all
Version: 2.83-1
Depends: rtmpdump | flvstreamer, libwww-perl, libxml-simple-perl, perl
Recommends: id3v2, libmp3-info-perl, atomicparsley
Suggests: mplayer, ffmpeg | libav-tools
Filename: pool/universe/g/get-iplayer/get-iplayer_2.83-1_all.deb
Size: 152504
MD5sum: ab8d22597d93db8b3000368e7755ccce
SHA1: fd01c974de14365d9d90caf3a43efbfec472c774
SHA256: e41b06ef06d524c9dfc341cb11fbc0ed532087a54219b599725f6123af4666fd
Description-en: download/stream available BBC iPlayer TV and radio 
programmes
  get_iplayer lists, searches and records BBC iPlayer TV/Radio, BBC Podcast
  programmes. Other third-party plugins may be available.
  .
  get_iplayer has three modes: recording a complete programme for later
  playback, streaming a programme directly to a playback application,
  such as mplayer; and as a Personal Video Recorder (PVR), subscribing to
  search terms and recording programmes automatically. It can also stream
  or record live BBC iPlayer output.
Description-md5: a2bb6c56842aa8d20d70869999764a54
Homepage: http://www.infradead.org/get_iplayer
Bugs: https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+filebug
Origin: Ubuntu


Yet: sudo apt-get autoremove get-iplayer gives me:

Reading package lists... Done
Building dependency tree
Reading state information... Done
Package 'get-iplayer' is not installed, so not removed
0 to upgrade, 0 to newly install, 0 to remove and 96 not to upgrade.

and just to make sure:  sudo apt-get autoremove get_iplayer results in:

Reading package lists... Done
Building dependency tree
Reading state information... Done
E: Unable to locate package get_iplayer

I'm getting more and more bewildered here! :-(


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