BBC iPlayer Desktop - Auntie, Why Do You Tease Me So?
Well, it has been a long time coming but this week the BBC unveiled its iPlayer Desktop, a Linux and Mac version of the desktop library software which Windows users have been enjoying for months.
It's beta software and is only available if you register as a BBC iPlayer Labs tester, which I immediately did.
Before I could download and install iPlayer Desktop onto my Ubuntu 8.10-based #!CrunchBang Linux desktop, I was told I required the latest version of the Adobe Flash Player - I had adobe-flashplugin 10.0.12.36-1hardy1 from the Ubuntu repository installed.
So I followed the link to the Adobe website and downloaded the .deb version for Ubuntu Linux systems (the other major Linux package formats are also available), then installed it with a [sudo dpkg --install filename] command.
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