Python iView on Ubuntu

This is the Ubuntu counterpart to my earlier post about deploying python iView on Windows (python iView homepage).

Fortunately, it is much easier than Windows, everything is achieved with a single shell script.

#!/bin/bash
# Installs python-iview including all dependencies
# Script assumes /usr/bin in on the path (is with default installs)
# Brendan Graetz 20100521
#
# python-iview by Jeremy Visser: http://jeremy.visser.name/2009/08/30/python-iview/
#install bazaar and python library
sudo apt-get install bzr
sudo apt-get install python-beautifulsoup
#install dev dependencies in order to be able to compile
sudo apt-get install libssl-dev
sudo apt-get install zlib1g-dev
#download rtmpdump source
wget http://rtmpdump.mplayerhq.hu/download/rtmpdump-2.2d.tgz ~/Downloads/rtmpdump-2.2d.tgz
#compile rtmpdump & create softlink on path
cd /usr/local/
tar -xzf ~/Downloads/rtmpdump-2.2d.tgz
cd rtmpdump-2.2d
make posix
sudo ln -s pwd/rtmpdump /usr/bin/rtmpdump
#check out python iview from repository
cd /usr/local/
bzr branch http://jeremy.visser.name/bzr/python-iview/ ./python-iview
#create softlinks on path
sudo ln -s pwd/python-iview/iview-gtk /usr/bin/iview-gtk
sudo ln -s pwd/python-iview/iview-cli /usr/bin/iview-cli
sudo ln -s /usr/bin/iview-gtk /usr/bin/iview

The only somewhat tricky bit here is that you need to compile rtmpdump, because it does not distribute binaries (not .deb‘s anyway). For that you will need to install a couple of dependencies which are not immediately obvious: libssl-dev and zlib1g-dev.