install flirc on debian wheezy - "disconnected"

[loeten]

Hello there, just to be sure that i did right for the installation of flirc:

 

I want to run it with debian wheezy and i was successful installing the application (altering sources.list etc). When i start the application in gnome, it says continuously "disconnected" / please connect flirc. But my system logs show me it's connected - what did i make wrong?

 

log portions:

 

http://pastebin.com/mv505KM4

[jason]

very strange, can you try sudo.

[loeten]

wow - that was a quick response! :-) i need to find out how i "sudo" an gui application, will tell you when i found out.

[jason]

the gui is in the path, so you can do:

 

sudo Flirc 

 

in a terminal and that should work

 

or gksudo

[loeten]

ahh ok. Much better now - it works. But you should include it in the instructions, and also mention the upper case "F" in the name of the executable.

 

thanks!

[yawor]

There is a much better solution that is already posted on the forum. You need to create an udev rule file which will tell udev to create device node with specific permissions.

 

 

After that you don't need to run Flirc apps as root.

Edited September 3, 2014 by yawor

[jason]

It should be automatically done in the deb package, unfortunately all the flavors of linux do it a bit different. Even the raspberry pi has some differences. I haven't found a one for all yet.