[Tutorial] install boxee on 64bit ubuntu

[jtgd]

Thanks, GonzoDark, the instructions worked flawlessly on my system and I was able to install and run Boxee. However the video is very messed up. It's as if it does not know how to talk to my video card. Lots of glitch and I can barely navigate the UI. When I exit it leaves it in a bad state and I can work around by doing Ctrl-Alt-Del to logout and then log in again.

I'm running Jaunty, xfce, and have an Nvidia FX5700LE card. Any ideas on what the problem could be? Thanks.

[GonzoDark]

My best guess: Your graphic-card Nvidia FX5700LE is the problem.

I got:

Intel Core 2 Duo PCU T7250 (2GHz)
2GB RAM
Nvidia Geforce 8600M GT

And it works flawlessly

// GonzoDark

[dgs]

This is what I did to get it working, I use Ubuntu 9.04 64bit.

Open your terminal, and copy paste this - line for line.

wget http://taurinocerveza.com/scripts/getlibs-all.deb
sudo dpkg -i getlibs-all.deb
wget http://apt.boxee.tv/dists/intrepid/t....9.11.5777.deb
sudo dpkg -i --force-all boxee-0.9.11.5777.deb
getlibs /opt/boxee/Boxee
sudo apt-get install lib32nss-mdns

You can find the program under: Programs--> Sound and video --> Boxee
or type this in the terminal: /opt/boxee/run-boxee-desktop

Remember to deactivate desktop effects, to get full performence.

enjoy.

// GonzoDark

Yes, this had worked for me 0.9.11.5777.deb, but my issue came with upgrading to 0.9.11.6570_i386.deb. I had to revert back to 0.9.11.5777 on my 64bit system (32 systems are OK).

[dgs]

fyi-
upgraded my jaunty 64bit install to 0.9.12.6570. starting boxee fails with:

/opt/boxee/Boxee: symbol lookup error: /opt/boxee/Boxee: undefined symbol: __lzo_init2

reverting back to 0.9.11.5777 starts/runs without issue.

so, bad I can't move forward. good that i can still enjoy previous version.

fyi - I found that I had to manually run getlibs to resolve my problem:
getlibs -p liblzo1

Happily running latest build.

[iitywygms]

I am not running the latest version and need to upgrade due to a hulu issue.
Can someone tell me how to upgrade? I am a noob so please be specific.
Thanks

[iitywygms]

I am not running the latest version and need to upgrade due to a hulu issue.
Can someone tell me how to upgrade? I am a noob so please be specific.
Thanks

.

Answered my own question, by reading. Like I should have in the first place.
Anyway.

wget http://apt.boxee.tv/dists/jaunty/mai...86/Packages.gz

zcat Packages.gz|grep Filename
Filename: ./dists/intrepid/test/binary-i386/boxee-0.9.11.5777.deb
Filename: ./dists/intrepid/test/binary-i386/boxee-0.9.12.6570.deb

wget http://apt.boxee.tv/dists/intrepid/t....9.12.6570.deb

sudo dpkg -i --force-all boxee-0.9.12.6570.deb

getlibs /opt/boxee/Boxee

Done

[dustywilson]

This is my solution for automatically installing and/or upgrading Boxee for 64-bit Ubuntu. I tested this in fully-upgraded Jaunty. No promises otherwise. Just run this once in awhile and it'll take care of you.

Save the following as a bash script in some new file (I named mine "boxeeinstall.sh") and set it to be executable (chmod 755 boxeeinstall.sh). Run it as a non-root user that can use sudo.

If you don't have getlibs installed, it'll install it. It uses wget. I think that's available by default in both Intrepid and Jaunty. If not, install that.

You'll have to type "y" and press enter on the getlibs step if necessary. (Is there a way to auto-yes that?)

#!/bin/bash

if [ "`which getlibs`" == "" ]; then
  wget -O /tmp/getlibs-all-$$.deb http://frozenfox.freehostia.com/cappy/getlibs-all.deb
  sudo dpkg -i /tmp/getlibs-all-$$.deb
  rm /tmp/getlibs-all-$$.deb
fi

wget -qO /tmp/boxee-packages-$$.gz http://apt.boxee.tv/dists/jaunty/main/binary-i386/Packages.gz
LATEST=`zgrep Version /tmp/boxee-packages-$$.gz | awk '{v=0; for (i = 1; i <= NF; i++) if ($2 > v) v = $2}; END {print v}'`
echo "LATEST: $LATEST"
CURRENT=`dpkg -s boxee 2> /dev/null | awk '/Version/ {print $2}'`
echo "CURRENT: $CURRENT"

if [ "$LATEST" != "$CURRENT" ]; then
  wget -O /tmp/boxee-$$.deb http://apt.boxee.tv/`zgrep Filename /tmp/boxee-packages-$$.gz | tail -n1 | awk '{print $2}'`
  sudo dpkg -i --force-all /tmp/boxee-$$.deb
  rm /tmp/boxee-$$.deb
  getlibs /opt/boxee/Boxee
fi

rm /tmp/boxee-packages-$$.gz

[iitywygms]

I did a fresh install using this script.
It works very nice, thank you.
May I suggest adding this to it?
sudo apt-get install lib32nss-mdns
I had issues until I installed this.
Other than that, it worked very well.

[tvon]

.
zcat Packages.gz|grep Filename

FYI, `zgrep Filename Packages.gz` is the direct way to do this.

[jhd121]

Worked great dustywilson! Thanks!