Jaaxx Posted July 3, 2017 Report Posted July 3, 2017 The repository still doesn't have a release file (since 2016) and the static version will never connect. Could we please just get a deb file to download ASAP so I can use my TV? I really don't want to go through bypassing security just to install this app. I will, but I shouldn't have to. Quote
Jaaxx Posted July 3, 2017 Author Report Posted July 3, 2017 Nevermind. Server was not working a while ago, it's up now. For anyone else with this problem (virtually everyone not using RPM) you can find the debs here -> http://apt.flirc.tv/arch/x64/binary/ Quote
jason Posted July 3, 2017 Report Posted July 3, 2017 I'm sorry, although fairly easy, this is probably a good 2-3 days of effort. I'll get to this soon. I'm working on a major release. sorry for the trouble. Quote
gsupp Posted July 9, 2017 Report Posted July 9, 2017 I added the apt repo per the Debian instructions at https://flirc.tv/ubuntu-software-installation-guide to my Ubuntu 16.04 system. Trying to run 'apt update' gives me the following error: Err:10 http://apt.flirc.tv/arch/x64 binary/ Release 404 Not Found E: The repository 'http://apt.flirc.tv/arch/x64 binary/ Release' does not have a Release file. N: Updating from such a repository can't be done securely, and is therefore disabled by default. N: See apt-secure(8) manpage for repository creation and user configuration details. I don't mean to be an ass but it shouldn't be 2-3 days of effort to properly set up an apt repo. https://blog.packagecloud.io/eng/2015/08/04/apt-repository-internals/ 1 Quote
msnow Posted July 10, 2017 Report Posted July 10, 2017 (edited) Have to ask what a deb file is. Edited July 10, 2017 by msnow Quote
EvilWayz Posted July 11, 2017 Report Posted July 11, 2017 21 hours ago, msnow said: Have to ask what a deb file is. If you have to ask, you more than likely don't need it. It's just the extension for packages used by Debian, and it's various forks. ( Ubuntu, Linux Mint, etc) 1 Quote
matt_garman Posted July 16, 2017 Report Posted July 16, 2017 (edited) On 7/2/2017 at 11:24 PM, jason said: I'm sorry, although fairly easy, this is probably a good 2-3 days of effort. I'll get to this soon. I'm working on a major release. sorry for the trouble. You've been working on the major release for over a year? I get the same error with the apt repo: W: The repository 'http://apt.flirc.tv/arch/x64 binary/ Release' does not have a Release file. N: Data from such a repository can't be authenticated and is therefore potentially dangerous to use. N: See apt-secure(8) manpage for repository creation and user configuration details. The distribution-independent binary also did not work for me: matt@host:/tmp/release/linux$ md5sum ~/Downloads/Linux_Release.zip 652ca37b1a68cd031689835a4a566b2a /home/matt/Downloads/Linux_Release.zip matt@host:/tmp$ unzip ~/Downloads/Linux_Release.zip Archive: /home/matt/Downloads/Linux_Release.zip creating: release/ inflating: release/51-flirc.rules inflating: release/index.html creating: release/linux/ inflating: release/linux/Flirc inflating: release/linux/flirc_util inflating: release/markdown.css inflating: release/release_notes.md creating: release/rpi/ inflating: release/rpi/flirc_util matt@host:/tmp$ cd release/linux/ matt@host:/tmp/release/linux$ ls Flirc flirc_util matt@host:/tmp/release/linux$ md5sum ./Flirc 67d51752dea950f8e7e0bd90c48fa88e ./Flirc matt@host:/tmp/release/linux$ ./Flirc -bash: ./Flirc: No such file or directory I'd argue it's bordering on false advertising when you say "Linux support"... Yet the Debian/Ubuntu repos don't work, and neither does the supposedly failsafe static build. Here's how I got this working, for anyone else who is similarly frustrated. I'm running Ubuntu LTS 16.04.2: $ cat /etc/os-release NAME="Ubuntu" VERSION="16.04.2 LTS (Xenial Xerus)" ID=ubuntu ID_LIKE=debian PRETTY_NAME="Ubuntu 16.04.2 LTS" VERSION_ID="16.04" HOME_URL="http://www.ubuntu.com/" SUPPORT_URL="http://help.ubuntu.com/" BUG_REPORT_URL="http://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/" VERSION_CODENAME=xenial UBUNTU_CODENAME=xenial $ cat /etc/debian_version stretch/sid I downloaded the deb file explicitly, specifically http://apt.flirc.tv/arch/x64/binary/flirc_2.5.1-1_amd64.deb There are a number of dependencies required. So I installed them all manually: $ sudo apt-get install libhidapi-hidraw0 libqt4-network libqt4-svg libqt4-xml libqtcore4 libqtgui4 libqtdbus4 libmng2 libqt4-declarative qtcore4-l10n libqt4-script libqt4-sql libqt4-xmlpatterns After the dependencies were installed, I could install the flirc deb directly: $ sudo dpkg -i flirc_2.5.1-1_amd64.deb I hope this info helps others. But I also hope it doesn't justify further delaying the fix for the repos. Edited July 16, 2017 by matt_garman fix typo Quote
jason Posted July 16, 2017 Report Posted July 16, 2017 58 minutes ago, matt_garman said: You've been working on the major release for over a year? I get the same error with the apt repo: W: The repository 'http://apt.flirc.tv/arch/x64 binary/ Release' does not have a Release file. N: Data from such a repository can't be authenticated and is therefore potentially dangerous to use. N: See apt-secure(8) manpage for repository creation and user configuration details. The distribution-independent binary also did not work for me: matt@host:/tmp/release/linux$ md5sum ~/Downloads/Linux_Release.zip 652ca37b1a68cd031689835a4a566b2a /home/matt/Downloads/Linux_Release.zip matt@host:/tmp$ unzip ~/Downloads/Linux_Release.zip Archive: /home/matt/Downloads/Linux_Release.zip creating: release/ inflating: release/51-flirc.rules inflating: release/index.html creating: release/linux/ inflating: release/linux/Flirc inflating: release/linux/flirc_util inflating: release/markdown.css inflating: release/release_notes.md creating: release/rpi/ inflating: release/rpi/flirc_util matt@host:/tmp$ cd release/linux/ matt@host:/tmp/release/linux$ ls Flirc flirc_util matt@host:/tmp/release/linux$ md5sum ./Flirc 67d51752dea950f8e7e0bd90c48fa88e ./Flirc matt@host:/tmp/release/linux$ ./Flirc -bash: ./Flirc: No such file or directory I'd argue it's bordering on false advertising when you say "Linux support"... Yet the Debian/Ubuntu repos don't work, and neither does the supposedly failsafe static build. Here's how I got this working, for anyone else who is similarly frustrated. I'm running Ubuntu LTS 16.04.2: $ cat /etc/os-release NAME="Ubuntu" VERSION="16.04.2 LTS (Xenial Xerus)" ID=ubuntu ID_LIKE=debian PRETTY_NAME="Ubuntu 16.04.2 LTS" VERSION_ID="16.04" HOME_URL="http://www.ubuntu.com/" SUPPORT_URL="http://help.ubuntu.com/" BUG_REPORT_URL="http://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/" VERSION_CODENAME=xenial UBUNTU_CODENAME=xenial $ cat /etc/debian_version stretch/sid I downloaded the deb file explicitly, specifically http://apt.flirc.tv/arch/x64/binary/flirc_2.5.1-1_amd64.deb There are a number of dependencies required. So I installed them all manually: $ sudo apt-get install libhidapi-hidraw0 libqt4-network libqt4-svg libqt4-xml libqtcore4 libqtgui4 libqtdbus4 libmng2 libqt4-declarative qtcore4-l10n libqt4-script libqt4-sql libqt4-xmlpatterns After the dependencies were installed, I could install the flirc deb directly: $ sudo dpkg -i flirc_2.5.1-1_amd64.deb I hope this info helps others. But I also hope it doesn't justify further delaying the fix for the repos. Sorry, I don't see this, and there is no reason to be so mean. No team here, just one person and I don't ever have 3 consecutive days. Filed tax extensions, haven't even filed yet. I work 7 days a week. (trusty_amd64)root@mint:/home/kotzin# sudo apt-get upgrade flirc Reading package lists... Done Building dependency tree Reading state information... Done Calculating upgrade... Done The following packages will be upgraded: flirc 1 upgraded, 0 newly installed, 0 to remove and 0 not upgraded. Need to get 8302 kB of archives. After this operation, 42.0 kB of additional disk space will be used. Do you want to continue? [Y/n] WARNING: The following packages cannot be authenticated! flirc Install these packages without verification? [y/N] Y Get:1 http://apt.flirc.tv/arch/x64/ binary/ flirc 2.5.1-1 [8302 kB] Fetched 8302 kB in 2s (2780 kB/s) (Reading database ... 48402 files and directories currently installed.) Preparing to unpack .../flirc_2.5.1-1_amd64.deb ... Unpacking flirc (2.5.1-1) over (2.3.6-1) ... Processing triggers for desktop-file-utils (0.22-1ubuntu1) ... Processing triggers for mime-support (3.54ubuntu1) ... Setting up flirc (2.5.1-1) ... Tried several times, don't see the issue. This is in my source.list: deb http://apt.flirc.tv/arch/x64 binary/ Quote
matt_garman Posted July 16, 2017 Report Posted July 16, 2017 (edited) 2 hours ago, jason said: Sorry, I don't see this, and there is no reason to be so mean. No team here, just one person and I don't ever have 3 consecutive days. Filed tax extensions, haven't even filed yet. I work 7 days a week. I don't think that was mean---I did show steps for others to use as a workaround until the repos are fixed. Clearly it's been an issue for some folks for over a year. For what it's worth, I have a close friend who had similar issues with the RPM packages. He told me he had a dialog with you via direct email, where he offered to help re-package your RPMs and fix your repos. You agreed to the help; he said, "OK, what next?" and you never replied. Point is, you did have an opportunity to have a team. I appreciate that you are busy. But my opinion remains: I am completely sympathetic if you don't have time to make the Linux experience as polished and turn-key as on Windows, but you owe it to your customers to advertise accordingly. As a 20-year Linux user I am used to this: with much hardware, Windows support is a given, and Linux support varies from "not at all" to "best-effort" or "community support only". But the way FLIRC is currently advertised, it comes across as Linux support being the same as Windows: you have both deb and rpm repos, and a failsafe distro-independent/statically-linked Linux failsafe program. According to my friend, the RPMs are broken; clearly the apt repos are broken for at least some of us; and the failsafe is not working for me either (see above). Anyway, in your example above you are doing an upgrade, which implies you already have a working flirc package on your system. Can you apt-get remove flirc, then comment out the line in your sources.list file, and then run "apt-get clean"? The latter will clean out your apt/dpkg cache. At this point I believe your system should be in a state similar to what mine is: effectively no knowledge of the flirc software. Now un-comment the line in sources.list, and just run "apt-get update". This command will just refresh the package index/cache. I suspect this should fail the same as it did for me and others in this thread. On the other hand, if it works, then I suspect it is a nuanced difference between various distributions' apt repository requirements. Can you tell me exactly what distribution and version you are using? I am guessing Linux Mint... I'm going to install 18.2 XFCE 64bit in a virtual machine and see if the repo works for me. Edit: I just did a fresh install of Linux Mint 18.2 XFCE 64bit. I added "deb http://apt.flirc.tv/arch/x64 binary/" to my /etc/apt/sources.list file. When I ran "apt-get update", I got the same error I posted above. I now have more confidence that if you do as I suggested above (remove flirc, remove flirc repo, clean your apt cache, then re-add the repo), you'll be able to reproduce this. Edited July 16, 2017 by matt_garman update with results of mint test Quote
jason Posted July 18, 2017 Report Posted July 18, 2017 kotzin@mint default ~ ⚡ sudo apt-get remove --purge flirc Reading package lists... Done Building dependency tree Reading state information... Done The following packages will be REMOVED: flirc* 0 upgraded, 0 newly installed, 1 to remove and 0 not upgraded. After this operation, 12.5 MB disk space will be freed. Do you want to continue? [Y/n] y (Reading database ... 48402 files and directories currently installed.) Removing flirc (2.5.1-1) ... Purging configuration files for flirc (2.5.1-1) ... Processing triggers for desktop-file-utils (0.22-1ubuntu1) ... Processing triggers for mime-support (3.54ubuntu1) ... kotzin@mint default ~ ⚡ sudo apt-get clean kotzin@mint default ~ ⚡ sudo apt-get update Ign http://apt.flirc.tv binary/ InRelease Ign http://apt.flirc.tv binary/ Release.gpg Ign http://apt.flirc.tv binary/ Release Ign http://apt.flirc.tv binary/ Packages/DiffIndex Ign http://us.archive.ubuntu.com trusty InRelease Hit http://us.archive.ubuntu.com trusty-updates InRelease Ign http://old-releases.ubuntu.com raring InRelease Hit http://apt.flirc.tv binary/ Packages Ign http://apt.flirc.tv binary/ Translation-en Hit http://us.archive.ubuntu.com trusty Release.gpg Hit http://us.archive.ubuntu.com trusty-updates/multiverse Sources Hit http://old-releases.ubuntu.com raring Release.gpg Ign http://mirror.aarnet.edu.au trusty InRelease Hit http://us.archive.ubuntu.com trusty-updates/multiverse amd64 Packages Hit http://us.archive.ubuntu.com trusty-updates/multiverse Translation-en Hit http://old-releases.ubuntu.com raring Release Hit http://us.archive.ubuntu.com trusty Release Hit http://mirror.aarnet.edu.au trusty Release.gpg Hit http://us.archive.ubuntu.com trusty/multiverse Sources Hit http://mirror.aarnet.edu.au trusty Release Hit http://us.archive.ubuntu.com trusty/universe Sources Hit http://old-releases.ubuntu.com raring/main amd64 Packages Hit http://us.archive.ubuntu.com trusty/main amd64 Packages Hit http://old-releases.ubuntu.com raring/restricted amd64 Packages Hit http://us.archive.ubuntu.com trusty/multiverse amd64 Packages Hit http://mirror.aarnet.edu.au trusty/main amd64 Packages Hit http://us.archive.ubuntu.com trusty/universe amd64 Packages Hit http://mirror.aarnet.edu.au trusty/main Translation-en Hit http://us.archive.ubuntu.com trusty/main Translation-en Hit http://old-releases.ubuntu.com raring/universe amd64 Packages Hit http://us.archive.ubuntu.com trusty/multiverse Translation-en Hit http://old-releases.ubuntu.com raring/multiverse amd64 Packages Hit http://us.archive.ubuntu.com trusty/universe Translation-en Hit http://old-releases.ubuntu.com raring/main Translation-en Hit http://old-releases.ubuntu.com raring/multiverse Translation-en Hit http://old-releases.ubuntu.com raring/restricted Translation-en Hit http://old-releases.ubuntu.com raring/universe Translation-en Reading package lists... Done kotzin@mint default ~ ⚡ sudo apt-get upgrade flirc Reading package lists... Done Building dependency tree Reading state information... Done Calculating upgrade... Done The following NEW packages will be installed: flirc 0 upgraded, 1 newly installed, 0 to remove and 0 not upgraded. Need to get 8307 kB of archives. After this operation, 12.5 MB of additional disk space will be used. Do you want to continue? [Y/n] y WARNING: The following packages cannot be authenticated! flirc Install these packages without verification? [y/N] y Get:1 http://apt.flirc.tv/arch/x64/ binary/ flirc 2.5.2-1 [8307 kB] Fetched 8307 kB in 2s (3005 kB/s) Selecting previously unselected package flirc. (Reading database ... 48392 files and directories currently installed.) Preparing to unpack .../flirc_2.5.2-1_amd64.deb ... Unpacking flirc (2.5.2-1) ... Processing triggers for desktop-file-utils (0.22-1ubuntu1) ... Processing triggers for mime-support (3.54ubuntu1) ... Setting up flirc (2.5.2-1) ... kotzin@mint default ~ Quote
matt_garman Posted July 18, 2017 Report Posted July 18, 2017 What distribution and version are you running? Can you post the contents of /etc/os-release and /etc/debian_version? Can you also post the output of "apt-key list"? Thanks! Quote
jason Posted July 18, 2017 Report Posted July 18, 2017 http://cl.flirc.io/lbOz http://cl.flirc.io/lbXw It's a chrooted environment in my debian distro. Yeah strange that it's not really complaining that hard about the security ID. I do sign the package. You want to try it again, I issued an update yesterday. Perhaps the last release wasn't good? Quote
matt_garman Posted July 23, 2017 Report Posted July 23, 2017 @jason - so it looks like the apt repo does work with ubuntu 14.04. But it does not work with ubuntu 16.04, nor mint 18.2. So my best guess it that debian/ubuntu introduced some kind of stricter checking on repos. Can you try again with a newer ubuntu, or upgrade your install? 14.04 is fairly old at this point. Quote
jason Posted August 4, 2017 Report Posted August 4, 2017 Okay, this was a lot of work. https://flirc.tv/ubuntu-software-installation-guide No immediate plans to do a 32 bit version right now,. Verified the issue, and verified this should work. Quote
Jaaxx Posted August 5, 2017 Author Report Posted August 5, 2017 Almost there. Missing a dependency - libhidapi-hidraw. On a fresh install, I get this on startup. flirc_util: error while loading shared libraries: libhidapi-hidraw.so.0: cannot open shared object file: No such file or directory After installing libhidapi-hidraw the Flirc gui does open and appears to work, but with a lot of shell noise like: Can't load 'test.ini' [D] lib/libflirc/flirc_driver.c fl_major_version(391): something bad happened [D] lib/libflirc/flirc_driver.c fl_minor_version(381): something bad happened [D] lib/libflirc/flirc_driver.c fl_patch_version(401): something bad happened [D] lib/libflirc/flirc_driver.c fl_major_version(391): something bad happened etc, etc, etc. Quote
jason Posted August 5, 2017 Report Posted August 5, 2017 what version are you running? Ignore the noise, it work okay after the library? should have installed that as a dependency... Quote
jason Posted August 5, 2017 Report Posted August 5, 2017 12 minutes ago, jason said: what version are you running? Ignore the noise, it work okay after the library? should have installed that as a dependency... okay, I think I fixed it. Version didn't change, so you'd have to do a remove and install again. Quote
matt_garman Posted August 12, 2017 Report Posted August 12, 2017 I tested the apt repos + install on my VMs, Mint 18.2 and Ubuntu 16.04, and they worked! Thanks Jason! Quote
grkblood13 Posted March 18, 2018 Report Posted March 18, 2018 Running Ubuntu 17.10 64bit. Install script is not working. Quote
jason Posted March 18, 2018 Report Posted March 18, 2018 Just now, grkblood13 said: Running Ubuntu 17.10 64bit. Install script is not working. can you clarify, or post a log? Quote
grkblood13 Posted March 18, 2018 Report Posted March 18, 2018 root@xubuntu-desktop:/tmp# curl -s https://packagecloud.io/install/repositories/Flirc/repo/script.deb.sh | bash Detected operating system as Ubuntu/artful. Checking for curl... Detected curl... Checking for gpg... Detected gpg... Running apt-get update... done. Installing apt-transport-https... done. Installing /etc/apt/sources.list.d/Flirc_repo.list...done. Importing packagecloud gpg key... done. Running apt-get update... done. The repository is setup! You can now install packages. root@xubuntu-desktop:/tmp# apt install flirc Reading package lists... Done Building dependency tree Reading state information... Done E: Unable to locate package flirc root@xubuntu-desktop:/tmp# Quote
grkblood13 Posted March 18, 2018 Report Posted March 18, 2018 root@xubuntu-desktop:/tmp# wget https://packagecloud.io/Flirc/repo/packages/ubuntu/xenial/flirc_3.9.12_amd64.deb --2018-03-18 19:39:35-- https://packagecloud.io/Flirc/repo/packages/ubuntu/xenial/flirc_3.9.12_amd64.deb Resolving packagecloud.io (packagecloud.io)... 50.97.198.58, 2607:f0d0:2101:270::2 Connecting to packagecloud.io (packagecloud.io)|50.97.198.58|:443... connected. HTTP request sent, awaiting response... 200 OK Length: unspecified [text/html] Saving to: ‘flirc_3.9.12_amd64.deb’ flirc_3.9.12_amd64.deb [ <=> ] 16.98K --.-KB/s in 0.001s 2018-03-18 19:39:36 (17.2 MB/s) - ‘flirc_3.9.12_amd64.deb’ saved [17388] root@xubuntu-desktop:/tmp# dpkg -i flirc_3.9.12_amd64.deb dpkg-deb: error: 'flirc_3.9.12_amd64.deb' is not a debian format archive dpkg: error processing archive flirc_3.9.12_amd64.deb (--install): subprocess dpkg-deb --control returned error exit status 2 Errors were encountered while processing: flirc_3.9.12_amd64.deb root@xubuntu-desktop:/tmp# Quote
grkblood13 Posted March 18, 2018 Report Posted March 18, 2018 FYI I tried a manual install of xenial (ubuntu 16) because there is no version for 17. Quote
jason Posted March 18, 2018 Report Posted March 18, 2018 Just now, grkblood13 said: FYI I tried a manual install of xenial (ubuntu 16) because there is no version for 17. okay, let me look into this. Quote
grkblood13 Posted March 19, 2018 Report Posted March 19, 2018 Also, I can't install the generic version in the meantime either. I'm getting 404ed. :/ root@xubuntu-desktop:/tmp# wget http://apt.flirc.tv/arch/x64/binary/flirc.latest.x86_64.tar.gz --2018-03-18 20:37:08-- http://apt.flirc.tv/arch/x64/binary/flirc.latest.x86_64.tar.gz Resolving apt.flirc.tv (apt.flirc.tv)... 45.56.95.166 Connecting to apt.flirc.tv (apt.flirc.tv)|45.56.95.166|:80... connected. HTTP request sent, awaiting response... 404 Not Found 2018-03-18 20:37:08 ERROR 404: Not Found. Quote
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