Ubuntu 18.04

[Geoff]

Just done a fresh install of Ubuntu 18.04 ( corrupt SSD drive).

Tried to install flirc from the download section. Extracted files  Flirc and Flirc_util.

Not sure what to do with them. The info at the end of the download section for Linux indicates some dependencies and putting the above files in usr/local/bin maybe.

   Needed Dependencies: libhidapi-hidraw0 libqt5core5a libqt5network5 libqt5xml5  libqt5xmlpatterns5  libhid qt5-qtbase qt5-qtsvg hidapi
     cp the 99-flirc.rules rules to /etc/udev/rules.d/
     optionally copy flirc_util and flirc to /usr/local/bin/

Not sure what this means, can you explain in more detail please

[phoner]

on ubuntu 18.04 I receive this message,

apt-get update

Err:4 http://apt.flirc.tv/arch/x64 binary/ Release
  404  Not Found [IP: 45.56.95.166 80]
Get:5 http://us.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu bionic-backports InRelease [74.6 kB]
Get:6 http://security.ubuntu.com/ubuntu bionic-security InRelease [88.7 kB]
Reading package lists... Done
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.

 

 

[phoner]

I found the apt-get unnecessary anyways. Got it to work by installing as many of the dependencies as I could, some of them weren't found but apparently they weren't critical. sudo Flirc ran the gui fine and it worked great. 

 

Edited December 27, 2019 by phoner