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How to install Boxee on ubuntu 11.10

Tue, 11/01/2011 - 03:02 — chris

As you probably know, the original package of boxee does not work out of the box. If you tried to install boxe using dpkg -i you will se there is some dependency problems.

Here's what to do.

First you have to repackage the orinal Boxee and repair a broken dependancy:

dpkg-deb -x boxee-0.9.22.13692.i486.modfied.deb boxee

dpkg-deb --control boxee-0.9.22.13692.i486.modfied.deb

boxee/DEBIAN gedit boxee/DEBIAN/control

Then go change the libxmlrpc-c3 to libxmlrpc-c3-0

And repackage the new Boxee like this:

dpkg -b boxee boxee-works.deb

Then this would normaly work for Ubuntu 11.04 but fo 11.10 some other dependancies are broken:

Selecting previously deselected package boxee.
(Reading database ... 212104 files and directories currently installed.)
Unpacking boxee (from boxee-new.deb) ...
dpkg: dependency problems prevent configuration of boxee:
 boxee depends on libsdl-gfx1.2-4; however:
  Package libsdl-gfx1.2-4 is not installed.
 boxee depends on libtre4 | libtre5; however:
  Package libtre4 is not installed.
  Package libtre5 is not installed.
 boxee depends on libhal1; however:
  Package libhal1 is not installed.
 boxee depends on libhal-storage1; however:
  Package libhal-storage1 is not installed.
 boxee depends on screen; however:
  Package screen is not installed.
 boxee depends on libxmlrpc-c3-0; however:
  Package libxmlrpc-c3-0 is not installed.
 boxee depends on xsel; however:
  Package xsel is not installed.
dpkg: error processing boxee (--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

All you have left to do is install theses dependencies like this:

sudo apt-get install libsdl-gfx1.2-4 libtre5 libhal1 libhal-storage1 screen libxmlrpc-core-c3-0 libxmlrpc-c3-0 xsel

 

Note: In my case I'm not coming from a clean install of ubuntu 11.10 I upgraded from 11.04 so maybe there is other stuff to do or less stuff to do, please comment!

 

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Sat, 01/07/2012 - 16:36 — Anonymous

Re: How to install Boxee on ubuntu 11.10

In my case, installing into an absolutely fresh 11.10 VM, I found I needed: # sudo apt-get install aptitude # OK, that's just my bias # sudo dpkg -i boxee*.deb # sudo aptitude -f install # installs all the dependencies of the boxee package # sudo aptitude install libssl0.9.8 libenca0 # two missing dependencies
Fri, 12/09/2011 - 08:47 — Anonymous

Re: How to install Boxee on ubuntu 11.10

Thanks for posting this guide. There is a slight problem though the following line boxee/DEBIAN gedit boxee/DEBIAN/control The DEBIAN folder gets created in the top level folder not the boxee one. So it need copying first. Also there is something wrong with the first part. It should be mv ./DEBIAN ./boxee gedit boxee/DEBIAN/control Also for me I didnn't need to follow the last step to get it to work on 11.10. May be I already had the dependences installed.