Install iPlayer on Mint 9 or Ubuntu Lucid
I have been wanting to install BBC iPlayer on my Linux Mint 9 to download and watch a TV show as my Internet speed is not the fastest and fluctuates from time to time so I wanted to download without the disruption. When I tried to install iPlayer with Google Chrome 6.0.472.53 I received an error message and was unable to install despite several attempts. I then tried my trusty old Firefox 3.6.9 and the same happened again. I tried also to find an offline version and could not find one. My thoughts were that if I can’t install it on 2 of the most popular browsers and can’t find an offline version then I give up, or should I?
Enter Opera to save the day. I downloaded and installed the latest version of Opera 10.61 and navigated to http://www.bbc.co.uk/iplayer/install/ and it installed without a hitch so then I could download my TV show at last. I had to browse iPlayer from Opera to download the show put that’s the least I could do.
Whilst I am on the subject Opera is a pretty nifty browser. I will definitely be using it more often.
As for the problem it could be flash or the air plugin. Has anyone successfully got it working with Firefox or Chrome?
Thank you!
A wonderfully elegant and simple solution.
Have to download Air on Google Chrome 6.0.xxx (stable) under Ubuntu 10.10 (Maverick) It does working with iPlayer.
I got in working straight from Firefox version 3.6.8 on Ubuntu 10.04
I use iplayer with Mint 9 (Isadora). In older iterations of Mint, like you I have had to download Air via Opera though, having done that I found iplayer worked fine with Firefox. Mint 9 appears not to suffer with this glitch.