Install sopcast on Ubuntu 14.10 Utopic Unicorn – manual installation

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To install sopcast 3.2.6 for linux  in Ubuntu 14.04, using manual installation, we can use files listed on this page http://sopcast.com/download/linux.html

 

sopcast-ubuntu-14-10

sopcast ubuntu 14.10

 

Install sopcast 32 and 64 bit  OS in Ubuntu 14.10

1)  Install sp-auth

:~$ wget http://download.sopcast.com/download/sp-auth.tgz  
:~$ tar -zxvf sp-auth.tgz sudo  
:~$ cp ./sp-auth/sp-sc-auth /usr/bin/sp-sc sudo 
:~$ cp ./sp-auth/sp-sc-auth /usr/local/bin/sp-sc

2) Check sp-sc

:~$ sp-sc
sp-sc: error while loading shared libraries: libstdc++.so.5: cannot open shared object file: No such file or directory

3)  libstdc++5 is missing so download and use it :

:~$ wget http://www.sopcast.com/download/libstdcpp5.tgz  
:~$ tar -zxvf libstdcpp5.tgz sudo  
:~$ sudo cp -a ./usr/lib/libstdc++.so.5* /usr/lib/

it possibile to check the presence of libstdc ++5 with dpkg, too.

:-$ dpkg -l | grep libstdc++5
ii libstdc++5:i386 1:3.3.6-25ubuntu1 The GNU Standard C++ Library v3

retest sp-sc 

:-$ sp-sc
SC Version: 3.2.6 Build time: 2009-11-09 15:09
Usage:
./sp-sc [-TpI] [-b ipaddr] [-u username:password] [-n out:total] <sop://url> <localport> <playerport>

4)  Install gettext
It is possibile check if gettext is installed with dpkg

:-$ dpkg -l | grep "gettext "
ii  gettext                               0.18.1.1-10ubuntu3                  amd64        GNU Internationalization utilities

If it isn’t installed  you can Install gettext with :

:-$ sudo apt-get install gettext

5) Now we download, extract and compile sopcast-player

:-$ wget http://sopcast-player.googlecode.com/files/sopcast-player-0.8.5.tar.gz

:-$ tar cd sopcast-player-zxvf sopcast-player-0.8.5.tar.gz
:-$ cd sopcast-player/

5) Check if library python gtk.glade is installed with dpkg

:-$ sudo dpkg -l | grep glade
ii  python-glade2                             2.24.0-3ubuntu1                         amd64        GTK+ bindings: Glade support

If it is not.  Install using

sudo apt-get install python-glade2

Compile and  install

make
sudo make install

using checkinstall

make 
sudo checkinstall

 

We start the program from the menu “Sound & Video” or with the command from the terminal

 sopcast-player

When you fist start sopcast click to retrive channels the button unlighted in red in next image

sopcast player first start ubuntu 13.10

sopcast player first start ubuntu 14.04

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