Jumping the Boxee 64 bit Linux Hurdle
Joe M posted in Home Support, products on November 25th, 2009
One of the challenges I have been facing in my new media center, stems from the fact that I am running Ubuntu 9.04 64 bit.
Boxee has been a blast, and has almost become a necessity for my media center.
The only problem?
Boxee is available for Win32, Win64 and 32 bit Linux. No 64 bit is available.
I have grown quite fond of it on the 32 bit version of the install on the media center.
I have had a couple of people ask, “Why do you have to run the 64 bit version of the OS? 32 bit should offer everything you need.”
Call it a quirk, but there is something about having more resources available that gives me comfort.
Whether it’s the fact that a 32 bit OS gives you limited addressibility to your RAM without a cheat or utility, I just feel better, running 64.
So, I have spent the past few days working through forum posts, blogs and articles regarding how to install Boxee on 64 bit Ubuntu.
After culminating several readings, I finally managed to get it to install on Ubuntu 9.04 64 bit.
Here are the steps I took.
wget http://frozenfox.freehostia.com/cappy/getlibs-all.deb
sudo dpkg -i getlibs-all.deb
wget http://apt.boxee.tv/dists/jaunty/main/binary-i386/Packages.gz
zcat Packages.gz | grep boxee
(Once you figure out what the latest version is, from the last command… change the filename at the end to match the latest version)
wget http://apt.boxee.tv/dists/jaunty/test/binary-i386/boxee-0.9.14.6992.deb (replace the boxee-X.X.XX.XXXX.deb with the version result from the zcat command).
sudo dpkg -i –force-architecture boxee-0.9.14.6992.deb
getlibs /opt/boxee/Boxee
sudo apt-get install lib32nss-mdns
Once I completed all the steps, Boxee fired up without any problems.