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I appreciate your feedback. I'll spare the details, but the delay in this was a massive technical marathon that I did not anticipate. All the way from the firmware to the app, it was a massive bitch. We have one more bug and the next update will likely be a release candidate. I'm really sorry for the frustration but appreciate all the feedback, support, and patience. I know it does not appear so, but we only have a few people at the company.

$ cat /etc/os-release NAME="Ubuntu" VERSION="20.04.2 LTS (Focal Fossa)" ID=ubuntu ID_LIKE=debian PRETTY_NAME="Ubuntu 20.04.2 LTS" VERSION_ID="20.04" HOME_URL="https://www.ubuntu.com/" SUPPORT_URL="https://help.ubuntu.com/" BUG_REPORT_URL="https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/" PRIVACY_POLICY_URL="https://www.ubuntu.com/legal/terms-and-policies/privacy-policy" VERSION_CODENAME=focal UBUNTU_CODENAME=focal $ dpkg -l flirc Desired=Unknown/Install/Remove/Purge/Hold | Status=Not/Inst/Conf-files/Unpacked/halF-conf/Half-inst/trig-aWait/Trig-pend |/ Err?=(none)/Reinst-required (Status,Err: uppercase=bad) ||/ Name Version Architecture Description +++-==============-============-============-================================= ii flirc 3.25.3 amd64 no description given $ ldd /usr/bin/flirc_util linux-vdso.so.1 (0x00007ffe453d8000) libreadline.so.6 => not found libusb-1.0.so.0 => /lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libusb-1.0.so.0 (0x00007f7de9b4c000) libhidapi-hidraw.so.0 => /lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libhidapi-hidraw.so.0 (0x00007f7de9b45000) libpthread.so.0 => /lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libpthread.so.0 (0x00007f7de9b22000) libc.so.6 => /lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libc.so.6 (0x00007f7de9930000) libudev.so.1 => /lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libudev.so.1 (0x00007f7de9903000) /lib64/ld-linux-x86-64.so.2 (0x00007f7de9b7a000) libreadline6 is not available in ubuntu, it would be best to update the package to use libreadline8, or libreadline5 which seems to be available still. This may have been taken care of with 3.25.4 (if I could download the package I would check myself) but if not could you please add it to the todo list for 3.25.5. The /usr/bin/Flirc gui works just fine, but others may want the command line.

A simple rebuild from the latest sources, seems to resolve the issue for me. Can you guys fix this on your end, by repackaging the flirc_util for Ubuntu, with the latest build? (Obviously, with regression testing!).

Hi, I just bought a Flirc USB device (Dori version) to use with a Dish Network 20.1 remote to control Kodi on headless Debian Linux. First, I added your repo and installed Flirc from that to a test laptop that has a desktop environment installed. The first thing that happened when I ran Flirc was I got prompted to update the firmware to 4.9.3, which I accepted. There's no profile for my remote so I tried toggling around the different built-in profiles to get a good keymap for Kodi setup. That didn't pan out very well so I decided to make my own custom profile using flirc_util to map the exact keycodes to corresponding remote buttons. I downloaded Linux Generic latest (flirc.latest.x86_64.tar.gz), which contained Flirc/flirc_util 3.25.3. Unfortunately it depends on libreadline6, which is unavailable as Debian stable is currently at libreadline8. So, instead I downloaded and compiled the git sdk flirc_util. Unfortunately it just segfaults when you run it. I'd prefer to compile git and have it work but if nobody can look into the segfaulting, could someone please update the "latest" Linux package against current Debian stable, or re-package it as a snap/flatpack/appimage so it will just work (hopefully) without dependency problems? Thanks