Wednesday, May 25, 2011

Install Boxee - Ubuntu Natty 11.04

Natty release should be out soon, until then:

[1]
Download Ubuntu .deb from: http://www.boxee.tv/download

[2]
Open Terminal in the download dir

[3]
sudo dpkg-deb -x boxee-REV-version-HERE.modfied.deb boxee

( current build as of this post: boxee-0.9.22.13692.i486.modfied.deb )

[4]
sudo dpkg-deb --control boxee-REV-version-HERE.modfied.deb boxee/DEBIAN

[5]
sudo nano boxee/DEBIAN/control

[6]
Locate:    libxmlrpc-c3

[7]
Change to [append -0]:    libxmlrpc-c3-0

Save changes and exit nano ( any txt editor can be used )

[8]
sudo dpkg -b boxee boxee-MY-WORKING-PKG.deb

( "boxee-MY-WORKING-PKG" can be named anything you like followed by ".deb" )

[9]
sudo apt-get update

[10]
sudo dpkg -i boxee-MY-WORKING-PKG.deb

( this will produce dep. errors )

[11]
sudo apt-get -f install

( this will fix the broken deps )

....

[12] Optional

sudo aptitude safe-upgrade -y
sudo apt-get clean
sudo apt-get autoclean

sudo chown -R yourUSERname:YOURuserNAME /home/yourUSERnameHERE

example: sudo chown -R comgen:comgen /home/comgen