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  1. I've installed it in two distros. PCLinuxOS: It's in their repositories, but the rules file I mentioned above isn't there. So you'll have to add it physically as above. MX Linux: This will install from the "curl" command mentioned above, but you'll have to locate libreadline.so.8 and create a symlink to libreadline.so.6 — I just found it again, it's in /lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/ As your distro is Ubuntu-based, I don't see why the curl command won't work, but Ubuntu has moved away from Debian so maybe that's why. If you're new to Linux, the two I mentioned are easy for beginners. I could never get on with Ubuntu and gave it up as a bad job years ago. Never could understand the fuss, apart from the fact that the distro was headed by someone with a huge amount of money who could buy publicity. But believe me, MX and PCLOS are good!
  2. I'm assuming that you ran Flirc (capital F) and flirc_util (small F) from the command line? This may give an indication of missing dependencies. Without a .desktop file, Flirc won't appear in your menus. Without the rules file, Flirc will run, but won't find your flirc and will report that it's disconnected. I had another problem when I installed it on MX Linux, where you can use the "curl" command. It complained that libreadline.so.6 was not present. You'd have to check a number of folders, starting from /lib, /usr/lib or /usr/lib64 (there could be others in your distro, or further subfolders). I found libreadline.so.8, and made a symlink to libreadline.so.6 — this worked for me. Other than that, I have no idea whatsoever.
  3. If you can install the executable files from the archive, you should be able to get it to work if you can install the "rules" file. In my case it's in /etc/udev/rules.d and it's 99-flirc.rules This is the file contents: # Flirc Devices # Bootloader SUBSYSTEM=="usb", ENV{DEVTYPE}=="usb_device", ATTR{idVendor}=="20a0", ATTR{idProduct}=="0000", MODE="0666" SUBSYSTEM=="usb", ENV{DEVTYPE}=="usb_device", ATTR{idVendor}=="20a0", ATTR{idProduct}=="0002", MODE="0666" SUBSYSTEM=="hidraw", ATTRS{idVendor}=="20a0", ATTRS{idProduct}=="0005", MODE="0666" # Flirc Application SUBSYSTEM=="usb", ENV{DEVTYPE}=="usb_device", ATTR{idVendor}=="20a0", ATTR{idProduct}=="0001", MODE="0666" SUBSYSTEM=="usb", ENV{DEVTYPE}=="usb_device", ATTR{idVendor}=="20a0", ATTR{idProduct}=="0004", MODE="0666" SUBSYSTEM=="hidraw", ATTRS{idVendor}=="20a0", ATTRS{idProduct}=="0006", MODE="0666" Hope this helps. You might need to reboot after adding the above file.
  4. I'm finding the software side of things a little sloppy. In the archive for non-Debian users, there are only two files: Flirc and flirc_util. The reason that the flirc wasn't detected on my other partition running PCLinuxOS is that they forgot to include the Udev Rules file /etc/udev/rules.d/99-flirc.rules. That had been installed by the curl command, so I copied the file from my MXLinux installation to my PCLinuxOS installation and now it's all working! It's a great invention but they need to keep the software up to date!
  5. I just found the page you tried to work from, which mentioned repositories. Wow. Glad that's not the one I found else I'd still be struggling with it. I found a different page which gave the following command line you have to put in, in a terminal to install Flirc: curl apt.flirc.tv/install.sh | sudo bash After that, you should check whether your distro has libreadline.so.6 available. This is because whoever programmed flirc_util marked it to require libreadline.so.6 "only" instead of "or later". If it's not there, in my case in the folder /lib/x86_64-linux-gnu but your distro may be different. What I had to do, was to go to the folder: cd /lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/ (or wherever you find libreadline.so.<number> Assuming it's 8 ... ) sudo ln -sf libreadline.so.8 libreadline.so.6 This worked on MX Linux. I'm actually struggling to get it to work on PCLinuxOS at the moment.
  6. I've got it working on MX-Linux-KDE version, but I had to symlink libreadline.so.6 to libreadline.so.8 in order to use the command line flirc_utils. MX is directly Debian based (not via Ubuntu).
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