How To Install Miro Public Preview 3 (0.9.9.9) on Ubuntu

by Toor, November 2nd, 2007 | 3 Comments

Miro is a free and open-source application. With Miro, you can watch free internet video channels and play any video file. The latest version of Miro is 0.9.9.9. This tutorial shows how you can install it on Ubuntu.

Edit your sources.list file with this command:

sudo gedit /etc/apt/sources.list

Add the following repository:

For Ubuntu 7.10 Gutsy:

deb http://ftp.osuosl.org/pub/pculture.org/miro/linux/repositories/ubuntu gutsy/

For Ubuntu 7.04 Feisty:

deb http://ftp.osuosl.org/pub/pculture.org/miro/linux/repositories/ubuntu feisty/

For Ubuntu 6.06 Dapper:

deb http://ftp.osuosl.org/pub/pculture.org/miro/linux/repositories/ubuntu dapper/

Save sources.list file.
Update the sources:

sudo apt-get update

Install Miro, you need to execute the following command:

sudo apt-get install miro

Now you can launch Miro by clicking Applications → Sound & Video → Miro.

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3 responses so far ↓

1 Dondad // Nov 3, 2007 at 10:42 pm

Tried, but the repo as listed is flagged as malformed in sources.list and It cannot be added through the gui either. Running Gutsy will all current updates.
2 Dondad // Nov 3, 2007 at 10:51 pm

Figured it out. Got it installed, but when I open it, it starts out “loading miro guide” then closes. Here is the output when started from the terminal

/var/lib/python-support/python2.5/dbusbindings.py:1: DeprecationWarning: The dbusbindings module is not public API and will go away soon.

Most uses of dbusbindings are applications catching the exception dbus.dbusbindings.DBusException. You should use dbus.DBusException instead (this is compatible with all dbus-python versions since 0.40.2).

If you need additional public API, please contact the maintainers via .

from dbus.dbusbindings import * INFO Starting up Miro INFO Version: 0.9.8.1 INFO Revision: unknown INFO Loading preferences… INFO Starting event loop thread INFO Restoring database… INFO Connecting to /home/family/.miro/sqlitedb INFO Recomputing filters… INFO Spawning global feed dtv:manualFeed INFO Spawning global feed dtv:singleFeed INFO Spawning global feed dtv:search INFO Spawning global feed dtv:searchDownloads INFO Creating channel tab order INFO Creating playlist tab order INFO Spawning Miro Guide… (u’News and Tech’, [u’http://jetset.blip.tv/?skin=rss’, u’http://revision3.com/diggnation/feed/quicktime-large’, u’http://www.democracynow.org/podcast-video.xml’, u’http://downloads.bbc.co.uk/rmhttp/downloadtrial/bbc2/newsnightvideopodcast/rss.xml’, u’http://podcast.msnbc.com/audio/podcast/MSNBC-NN-NETCAST-M4V.xml’, u’http://feeds.feedburner.com/TEDTalksvideo’]) INFO *** Launching Downloader Daemon **** (u’Entertainment’, [u’http://feeds.feedburner.com/Terravideos’, u’http://feeds.feedburner.com/AskANinja’, u’http://feeds.feedburner.com/Theburg/’, u’http://feeds.theonion.com/OnionNewsNetwork’]) (u’High-Def’, [u’http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-srv/mmedia/hdpodcast.xml’, u’http://www.telemusicvision.com/videos/rss.php’, u’http://www.onnetworks.com/videos/shows/25/podcast/hd’, u’http://www.kqed.org/.pod/questvideo’]) INFO Spawning global feed dtv:directoryfeed INFO Spawning auto downloader… INFO Displaying main frame… WARNING Menu item action “CheckVersion” not implemented WARNING Menu item action “RenameVideo” not implemented WARNING Menu item action “FastForward” not implemented WARNING Menu item action “Rewind” not implemented WARNING Menu item action “UpVolume” not implemented WARNING Menu item action “DownVolume” not implemented WARNING Volume changed before videoDisplay created WARNING Display updated before video display was created INFO Creating video display… alsa oss pulseaudio none file INFO loaded renderer ‘xinerenderer’ INFO got file:///tmp/tmpSplkkC.html TIMING Icon clear: 0.340 INFO Finished startup sequence TIMING idle (Finishing startup) too slow (1.292 secs) INFO *** Daemon ready *** INFO got file:///tmp/tmpEUdEo3.html INFO got https://www.miroguide.com/ TIMING feed update for: http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-srv/mmedia/hdpodcast.xml too slow (0.140 secs) ** Message: GetValue variable 1 (1) ** Message: GetValue variable 2 (2) ** Message: GetValue variable 1 (1) ** Message: GetValue variable 2 (2) ** Message: GetValue variable 1 (1) ** Message: GetValue variable 2 (2) ** Message: GetValue variable 1 (1) ** Message: GetValue variable 2 (2) /usr/bin/python2.5: symbol lookup error: /usr/lib/jvm/java-6-sun-1.6.0.03/jre/plugin/i386/ns7/libjavapluginoji.so: undefined symbol: PRNewMonitor WARNING downloader: connection closed — quitting INFO Shutting down downloaders… family@family-desktop:~$
3 Alexis Bellido // Nov 12, 2007 at 7:46 am

I also had the problem of Miro closing just after launch and followed the advice in Ubuntu Forums to fix it.

Cheers!

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