Livestation - IPTV

As a Bloomberg fanatic probably the best software ever is livestation - and it runs fine on the AAO. Here's how.

Download Linux version from livestation.com.
Where you see tab press tab and BASH should autocomplete the file name

Enter the folder where you download by default in terminal with

Code:

cd /home/user/Downloads
chmod +x Livestation [tab]
sudo ./Livestation [tab]

Press q, y, enter, enter ... follow instructions. It's quite a good installer - a lot better than crappy RPMs.
You can try running it now with livestation & - but wait - a library error! woes!
Just copy libpcre.so.0 to libpcre.so.3 this is probably nefarious.

Code:

cd /lib/
sudo cp libpcre.so.0  libpcre.so.3
livestation &

Ah bloomberg. I wonder if it also does other channels?

 

You can also get other channels such as BBC and the Iranian version of CNN Press TV - which at the moment is certainly worth watching to see how things are reported over there. As for the install advice, all I did was follow the instructions and it worked out of the box no problems.