Install Boxee on 64-bit Ubuntu 9.10 Karmic

Ryan — Sat, 02 Jan 2010 15:33:12 +0000

Installing Boxee turns your computer into an incredible HTPC. These instructions will help you get it up and running on Ubuntu.

Update:
Boxee has recently made the latest version (9.20) of their software available for Ubuntu 64 and 32-bit. If you are installing this new version simply download the deb package off their website directly and install it.

The instructions below pertain to older Boxee versions < 9.20

Start by downloading the repository off the website. Since the 32-bit repository is the only one available simply adding it to your sources.list will not work.

$ wget http://apt.boxee.tv/dists/jaunty/main/binary-i386/Packages.gz

Find the latest version of Boxee in the repository.

$ zcat Packages.gz | grep Filename

Filename: ./dists/intrepid/main/binary-i386/boxee-0.9.6.4578.intrepid.deb
Filename: ./dists/intrepid/main/binary-i386/boxee-0.9.7.4826.intrepid.deb
Filename: ./dists/intrepid/test/binary-i386/boxee-0.9.11.5777.deb
Filename: ./dists/intrepid/test/binary-i386/boxee-0.9.12.6570.deb
Filename: ./dists/intrepid/test/binary-i386/boxee-0.9.13.6684.deb
Filename: ./dists/intrepid/test/binary-i386/boxee-0.9.14.6795.deb
Filename: ./dists/intrepid/test/binary-i386/boxee-0.9.14.6992.deb

Download the latest version.

$ wget http://apt.boxee.tv/dists/intrepid/test/binary-i386/boxee-0.9.14.6992.deb

Install the package, since your system is 64-bit and you are installing a 32-bit package you will see that your system is missing some required libraries.

$ sudo dpkg -i --force-all boxee-0.9.14.6992.deb

dpkg: warning: overriding problem because --force enabled:
 package architecture (i386) does not match system (amd64)
Selecting previously deselected package boxee.
(Reading database ... 144498 files and directories currently installed.)
Unpacking boxee (from boxee-0.9.14.6992.deb) ...
dpkg: boxee: dependency problems, but configuring anyway as you requested:
 boxee depends on liblzo1; however:
  Package liblzo1 is not installed.
 boxee depends on libfaad-dev; however:
  Package libfaad-dev is not installed.
 boxee depends on libxmlrpc-c3; however:
  Package libxmlrpc-c3 is not installed.
 boxee depends on libdirectfb-1.0-0; however:
  Package libdirectfb-1.0-0 is not installed.
 boxee depends on libkrb53; however:
  Package libkrb53 is not installed.
 boxee depends on xsel; however:
  Package xsel is not installed.
Setting up boxee (0.9.14.6992)

To fix these dependency problems download the getlibs package and install it.

$ wget http://frozenfox.freehostia.com/cappy/getlibs-all.deb
$ sudo dpkg -i getlibs-all.deb

Now resolve those missing libraries.

$ getlibs /opt/boxee/Boxee

libfaac.so.0: libfaac0
libhal-storage.so.1: libhal-storage1
libjasper.so.1: libjasper1
libenca.so.0: libenca0
No match for liblzo.so.1
libmysqlclient.so.15: libmysqlclient15off
libfribidi.so.0: libfribidi0
libGLEW.so.1.5: libglew1.5
The following i386 packages will be installed:
libenca0
libfaac0
libfribidi0
libglew1.5
libhal-storage1
libjasper1
libmysqlclient15off
Continue [Y/n]? y
Downloading ...
Installing libraries ...

Install the lib32nss-mdns library.

$ sudo apt-get install lib32nss-mdns

You also need to manually install the liblzo library which is no longer available in the 9.10 release.

$ wget http://mirrors.kernel.org/ubuntu/pool/universe/l/lzo/liblzo1_1.08-3_i386.deb
$ getlibs -i liblzo1_1.08-3_i386.deb

You should now be able to launch Boxee normally, enjoy!

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Install Boxee on 64-bit Ubuntu 9.10 Karmic