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#1 2017-10-23 01:17
- pippin
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- From: Staffordshire, UK
- Registered: 2017-10-12
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get_iplayer
Hi guys,
Firstly, many thanks for a wonderful distro. It is now my daily driver. Nice and stable, fast, and a joy to work with.
The only thing that I am missing is a program called 'get_iplayer'.
It is a CLI program to download/record BBC programs, here in the UK.
It is nothing to do with the 'official' BBC Iplayer app.
Would there be any chance of adding it to the Q4OS repos ?
Thanks,
Phil
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#2 2017-10-23 01:39
- pippin
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Re: get_iplayer
Erm,
Sorry, guys, I now have it working, apparently OK.
I found this link: https://github.com/get-iplayer/get_iplayer/wiki/unixpkg
and installed the deb package from the Ubuntu/Mint link.
It seems to pull in any required dependencies, and seems to work fine.
I have downloaded a tv program, and it plays fine.
So my Q4OS is now darn-near perfect !
Hope this may help someone else.
Thanks,
Phil
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#3 2017-10-23 07:47
- Dai_trying
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- Registered: 2015-12-14
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Re: get_iplayer
I hope you didn't use a PPA for installation, or if you did I hope you removed it from your sources.list. Be warned that many packages available for Ubuntu/Mint might work, but are not always fully compatible with Debian (Q4OS base system) and may break your system at some time in the future.
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#4 2017-10-23 16:01
- pippin
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- From: Staffordshire, UK
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Re: get_iplayer
Hi Dai,
Nope, I did not use the PPA - I am not keen on adding 'extra' sources to a repo. Instead I downloaded the .deb package and installed that.
As I say, all seems fine, but I shall be backing up my data, just in case things go south !
For now, I am just enjoying a wonderful distro.
Cheers,
Phil
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#5 2017-10-23 18:27
- Dai_trying
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Re: get_iplayer
That's good to hear, I would imagine it would be ok as it has no access to "out of supported repo" packages. I might try this when I get a chance as I am always missing things on tv when I'm working (or should I say playing 
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#6 2017-10-23 18:49
- crosscourt
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- From: Wash DC
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Re: get_iplayer
Glad to see you got it working.
Q4OS Aquarius 5.x KDE Dell Inspiron 3670 i5 8600, GTX 1660 Super, 32gb, 2tb NVME SSD
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