From dave.widgery at gmail.com  Thu Jul 25 07:26:44 2024
From: dave.widgery at gmail.com (Dave Widgery)
Date: Thu, 25 Jul 2024 16:26:44 +0200
Subject: Help migrating get_iplayer from windows to linux
Message-ID: <CAE3AcKevUexV5ReNdendqP6TyWGYiwuLz0ui+3MWGmgm5nn_jw@mail.gmail.com>

Hi
I would just like a little help moving get_iplayer from windows to
linux, this really ought to be easy for me as I did unix system
management for about 10 years, but a long time ago and mainly on SUN
microsystems kit, since then I have really only used PC's and then
only as a basic user, and I could tell you more about building,
plumbing and electrical work, than computers.

My old pc that I have get_iplayer on is dying, so I had the idea to
setup an old HP laptop of mine to work as a network disk server and
also do any get_iplayer downloads that I want in the background.

My first mistake (possibly) was installing Linux MINT, I had played
around with it on a friend's machine, and it looked simple enough, of
course when I go to the next step and try and download get_iplayer,
there isn't a build for MINT. So before I go about installing a
different build, I thought I would ask the question.

What I want is a system that I can use for disk sharing to
Windows/Android, use a standard supported version of get_iplayer,
finally to be able to control it remotely, as it will sit down in my
basement.

I also don't really want to think too much about setting it up, gone
are the days when I used to enjoy sitting down for hours playing with
computers.

So first question is what version of Linux do you suggest for
get_iplayer, just for ease I would prefer one with a window's type
desktop.

Second Question, disk sharing, I always used to use samba back in the
day, is this still a favorite or is there something better these days,
this will be for general files but also audio and video.

Finally, I want to mirror the desktop to either PC or Android
Tablet/Smartphone, is there something built in these days, if not what
package to go for.

Thanks in advance for any suggestions, the simpler, the better.

Dave


From web at audiomisc.co.uk  Thu Jul 25 09:25:50 2024
From: web at audiomisc.co.uk (Jim web)
Date: Thu, 25 Jul 2024 17:25:50 +0100
Subject: Help migrating get_iplayer from windows to linux
In-Reply-To: <CAE3AcKevUexV5ReNdendqP6TyWGYiwuLz0ui+3MWGmgm5nn_jw@mail.gmail.com>
References: <CAE3AcKevUexV5ReNdendqP6TyWGYiwuLz0ui+3MWGmgm5nn_jw@mail.gmail.com>
Message-ID: <5b861211d3web@audiomisc.co.uk>

FWIW IRC I've only ever used it on MINT/xfce/rox setups! Works fine for me.

Can't recall the details of installing but I think it was one of the simple
'direct fetch and build' commands to get it from the web.

Jim

In article
<CAE3AcKevUexV5ReNdendqP6TyWGYiwuLz0ui+3MWGmgm5nn_jw at mail.gmail.com>, Dave
Widgery <dave.widgery at gmail.com> wrote:
> My first mistake (possibly) was installing Linux MINT, I had played
> around with it on a friend's machine, and it looked simple enough, of
> course when I go to the next step and try and download get_iplayer,
> there isn't a build for MINT. So before I go about installing a
> different build, I thought I would ask the question.

> So first question is what version of Linux do you suggest for
> get_iplayer, just for ease I would prefer one with a window's type
> desktop.

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From jn.ml.gti.91 at wingsandbeaks.org.uk  Thu Jul 25 12:52:55 2024
From: jn.ml.gti.91 at wingsandbeaks.org.uk (Jeremy Nicoll - ml gip)
Date: Thu, 25 Jul 2024 20:52:55 +0100
Subject: Help migrating get_iplayer from windows to linux
In-Reply-To: <CAE3AcKevUexV5ReNdendqP6TyWGYiwuLz0ui+3MWGmgm5nn_jw@mail.gmail.com>
References: <CAE3AcKevUexV5ReNdendqP6TyWGYiwuLz0ui+3MWGmgm5nn_jw@mail.gmail.com>
Message-ID: <30d2418e3bf6bb00980618a11ab5bd92@wingsandbeaks.org.uk>

On 2024-07-25 15:26, Dave Widgery wrote:

> My first mistake (possibly) was installing Linux MINT, I had played
> around with it on a friend's machine, and it looked simple enough, of
> course when I go to the next step and try and download get_iplayer,
> there isn't a build for MINT. So before I go about installing a
> different build, I thought I would ask the question.


Unless get_iplayer has changed vastly since I used it (on Windows) it's
just a big perl script, which runs external utilities.  On Windows I
did not grab any kind of installer, just (from elsewhere) got perl for
Windows, then used the perl tool "cpan" to install the tool "cpanminus"
than used that to install other perl modules that get_iplayer needed.

Likewise I looked for LAME, FFMPEG etc (which then, maybe not now, I
dunno) were the utilities that get_iplayer would invoke.

I wanted perl on my system for any user, not just for get_iplayer,
& I wanted to know how it'd been installed.  I wanted LAME etc for
the whole system too.  I didn't want a subsequent install of get_
iplayer to remove any of those or upgrade them (with possible side-
effects for other perl code I might have).

I would think that in any version of linux its package manager would
make acquiring the things that get_iplayer needs simple.



I can't comment on the other questions.

-- 
Jeremy Nicoll - my opinions are my own


From njhp94 at gmail.com  Thu Jul 25 13:56:07 2024
From: njhp94 at gmail.com (Nick Payne)
Date: Fri, 26 Jul 2024 06:56:07 +1000
Subject: Help migrating get_iplayer from windows to linux
In-Reply-To: <5b861211d3web@audiomisc.co.uk>
References: <CAE3AcKevUexV5ReNdendqP6TyWGYiwuLz0ui+3MWGmgm5nn_jw@mail.gmail.com>
 <5b861211d3web@audiomisc.co.uk>
Message-ID: <67c52d4e-0193-4493-a452-1ba0687c476a@gmail.com>

For Linux Mint, you can use the Ubuntu ppa to install get_iplayer - 
instructions here: 
https://ubuntuhandbook.org/index.php/2022/12/get-iplayer-bbc-tv-ubuntu/.

I mainly use get_iplayer on a headless Raspberry Pi, and use PuTTY on my 
Windows desktop to ssh into the Pi to run GiP, and have seteup Samba on 
the Pi to share the GiP downloads folder to Windows. I also use tmux to 
run multiple simultaneous instances of GiP on the Pi. I used these 
instructions to install GiP on Raspbian: 
https://software.opensuse.org/download.html?project=home%3Am-grant-prg&package=get-iplayer.

Nick

On 26/07/2024 02:25, Jim web wrote:
> FWIW IRC I've only ever used it on MINT/xfce/rox setups! Works fine for me.
> 
> Can't recall the details of installing but I think it was one of the simple
> 'direct fetch and build' commands to get it from the web.
> 
> Jim
> 
> In article
> <CAE3AcKevUexV5ReNdendqP6TyWGYiwuLz0ui+3MWGmgm5nn_jw at mail.gmail.com>, Dave
> Widgery <dave.widgery at gmail.com> wrote:
>> My first mistake (possibly) was installing Linux MINT, I had played
>> around with it on a friend's machine, and it looked simple enough, of
>> course when I go to the next step and try and download get_iplayer,
>> there isn't a build for MINT. So before I go about installing a
>> different build, I thought I would ask the question.
> 
>> So first question is what version of Linux do you suggest for
>> get_iplayer, just for ease I would prefer one with a window's type
>> desktop.
> 



