Boxee 1.5 Install Tips [Ubuntu 11.10]

[lgladdy]

Hey folks,

I figured i'd point out a few things here I found during my fresh install of Boxee 1.5 on Ubuntu tonight, as it's likely to trip some people up..

I'm running Boxee on an Acer Revo.

• I originally was running Boxee on a mashed up xbmc-live install, but Boxee 1.5 wouldn't contemplate running on it, so I decided to start afresh with a Ubuntu 11.10 install
• After a base 11.10 install, the first thing I had to do was remove pulse audio - It breaks my 5.1 output of DTS and Dolby content
• There are a bunch of boxees dependencies which aren't met by default. After a "sudo dpkg -i <boxee-file.deb>", I ran "sudo apt-get upgrade -f" which installed almost all of the dependancies, but one...
• Boxee failed to start with a libcrypto.so error. "sudo apt-get install libssl0.9.8" fixed this.
• For video acceleration, I needed to install libvdpau-dev and libvdpau1
• I did the previous hack to install a power off menu option, (described here: http://www.greenhughes.com/content/a...n-button-boxee) but this didn't work, Boxee was exiting, but not shutting down the system. This turns out to be because Ubuntu 11.10 doesn't come with hal. "sudo apt-get install hal" fixed this.
• The unity system broke the startup item I added for Boxee by making it windowed, presumably because Boxee was starting before the desktop. To fix this, I created a delay script as /usr/bin/delay and added a 10 second wait to startup. The code for this is below.
• Installing Lirc for my Windows Media Center receiver broke everything properly. Using this forum post guided me through fixing it: http://forums.boxee.tv/showthread.php?t=50444

I put this code in /usr/bin/delay, chmod +x'd it, and then created a startup item for "delay 10 /opt/boxee/run-boxee-desktop"

#!/bin/sh

sleep $1
shift
exec "$@"

I'm sure other people will have their own quirks, which might be worth documenting here, even if this is the last ever PC release!

[agentlame]

Thanks for the great tips.

I'm gonna replace the 10.04 sticky with this.

[deadleg16]

Thanks for this!

[chiefy]

Dare I ask this, but has anyone gotten this to work on 10.04 LTS?

[kreggz]

there is a dependency on flashplugin-downloader which doesn't seem to be available until 11.10. I just finished upgrading not fun.

[kreggz]

[*] For video acceleration, I needed to install libvdpau-dev and libvdpau1

How did you enable vdpau in Boxee after you installed those packages?

[richaoj]

there is a dependency on flashplugin-downloader which doesn't seem to be available until 11.10. I just finished upgrading not fun.

sudo sudo dpkg --ignore-depends=flashplugin-downloader -i boxee-1.5 . . . .

this works--flash player should already be installed on your system

[chiefy]

sudo sudo dpkg --ignore-depends=flashplugin-downloader -i boxee-1.5 . . . .

this works--flash player should already be installed on your system

Thanks - I actually took the plunge and installed Xubuntu 11.10 - it was time to update anyhow.

Has anyone had issues with lircd not working? I feel like I did something in 10.04 to get it to work but can't remember. Should really write these things down.

[nimonus]

Hmm. . .

I'm trying to install on Linux Mint 11.10 64 bit, which is based on Ubuntu. Does this only work on 32 bit version?

I tried installing with Gpackage, and got the following error message: Error: Wrong Architecture i386

Then I tried installing in terminal and got:

Unpacking boxee:i386 (from boxee-1.5.0.23269-fab5dc5.i486.deb) ...
dpkg: dependency problems prevent configuration of boxee:i386:
 boxee:i386 depends on libflac8.
 boxee:i386 depends on libcurl3-gnutls.
 boxee:i386 depends on libfribidi0 (>= 0.10.7).
 boxee:i386 depends on libglew1.5.
 boxee:i386 depends on liblzo2-2.
 boxee:i386 depends on libsdl-image1.2 (>= 1.2.5).
 boxee:i386 depends on libsmbclient (>= 3.0.2a-1).
 boxee:i386 depends on libxinerama1.
 boxee:i386 depends on libogg0.
 boxee:i386 depends on libvorbis0a.
 boxee:i386 depends on libvorbisenc2.
 boxee:i386 depends on libvorbisfile3.
 boxee:i386 depends on libmad0.
 boxee:i386 depends on libbz2-1.0.
 boxee:i386 depends on libmysqlclient16.
 boxee:i386 depends on flashplugin-downloader.
 boxee:i386 depends on libnss3-1d.
 boxee:i386 depends on libnspr4-0d.
 boxee:i386 depends on libmms0.
 boxee:i386 depends on libhal-storage1.
dpkg: error processing boxee:i386 (--install):
 dependency problems - leaving unconfigured
Processing triggers for desktop-file-utils ...
Processing triggers for gnome-menus ...
Processing triggers for bamfdaemon ...
Rebuilding /usr/share/applications/bamf.index...
Errors were encountered while processing:
 boxee:i386

Any ideas?

[basilfx]

I'm having problems with Boxee if I select Dutch as the main language while installing (X)Ubuntu 11.10 (on two different systems). Multi line texts are not continued on new rows, but overlap on the first row.

My tip: only choose English if you plan to reinstall your system until this bug(?) is fixed