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Thanks for your reply Martin. I had no trouble installing getlibs-all.deb, but still fail at lib32asound2. In the repositories I can see libasound2 or lib64asound2 but not a 32 bit version. I may be barking up the wrong tree anyway Martin as I now realize that I can’t use iPlayer Desktop as I am in Ireland. All I am trying to do is listen live via the website, but the iPlayer stops after connection, and the play buttons disappear. Ah well worse things happen at sea, I shall just have to listen through Windows or, god forbid, on a radio!

Hi Martin

Myself and others running AMD processors cannot install any Adobe Air Applications. Segfault with this error:

/usr/lib/gio/modules/libgvfsdbus.so: wrong ELF class: ELFCLASS64
Failed to load module: /usr/lib/gio/modules/libgvfsdbus.so
/usr/lib/gio/modules/libgioremote-volume-monitor.so: wrong ELF class: ELFCLASS64
Failed to load module: /usr/lib/gio/modules/libgioremote-volume-monitor.so
/usr/lib/gio/modules/libgiogconf.so: wrong ELF class: ELFCLASS64
Failed to load module: /usr/lib/gio/modules/libgiogconf.so

Any ideas?

Hi,
Thanks for your help. I had no /opt directory so I must have inadvertently deleted it somehow! I had to reinstall Adobe AIR to get the installation to work on the iPlayer site.

Thanks again!
Gaz

Having some problems with this, (i.e. it is as clear as mud). When something is described as ‘simple’ it should mean just that, but nothing I’ve found here is that simple. I’m aware that I’m probably missing something, but generally I find that ‘geeks’ tend to confuse nere mortals by assuming that everyone is as au fait as they are with the processes of running scripts, installing things through sudo etc. I am not stupid, but it has struck me that sometimes steps are missed out that whilst would not faze an experienced user, would totally flummox a newbie in that an ‘obvious’ step has been missed out.

Maybe repetition is tedious to those in the know, but my experience as a language tutor has taught me that repetition is vital to the human learning process, and that going over old ground is vital. I believe that tutorials should be ‘self-contained’ so that they are in effect stand alone so that the user does not have to constantly refer to different pages or websites – something that has always been a bane of my life right from when I started to use computers some 20 years ago.

My particular problem is that I’m finding it ridiculously hard to install BBC iPlayer on my Jaunty machine,and when I found your website I was relieved, however shortlived that proved to be.

I am a relative ‘newbie’ to Ubuntu, and whilst I’m becoming quite experienced at using sudo, I am still very much in the dark when it comes to scripts. I have downloaded the script, but can’t get it to run. I’m sure that the problem lies with me, as I’m not sure where to save the script to so that sudo knows where to find it and do its stuff.

I’d be grateful for any help, despite the fact that it’s probably a bit of a pain for you, (and quite possibly now difficult to get into the mind set of being a newbie who is a little confused). Computers are not second nature to most people, which is why so many remain with Windows, it’s ease of use has much to commend it even if the ethical considerations leave something to be desired.

Thanks in anticipation.