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I would like to view screen shares and share my screen via WebEx. I have Firefox installed on Ubuntu 14.04 (64-bit). I can join a meeting, but when I try to share my screen or see others' screens, nothing happens. What do I need to do?

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If you can join the meeting, Java (OpenJDK 7) is working correctly. You just need to install the following 32-bit packages:

sudo apt install libpangoxft-1.0-0:i386 libxv1:i386 libpangox-1.0-0:i386

Source: http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=2220667&page=2&p=13053998#post13053998

(See that thread for details on identifying required packages. You may need to do this again once 14.10 and future versions come out. The relevant links are http://linuxsagas.digitaleagle.net/2014/02/07/webex-on-64-bit-ubuntu-13-10/ and How to I make Cisco WebEx work with 13.10 64bit? )

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https://gist.github.com/mshkrebtan/407786e334847544b40e7d6a8a53d247 explains how to run WebEx w/ audio and screen sharing under 32-bit Firefox on a 64-bit Ubuntu OS. Many thanks to Paul Rougieux who found it!

Enable support for 32-bit executables

Add i386 architecture to dpkg architectures but running sudo dpkg --add-architecture i386

Install the libraries required to execute ELF-32 executables by running sudo apt-get update && sudo apt-get install libc6:i386 libncurses5:i386 libstdc++6:i386

Download the 32-bit Linux download of Firefox ESR 68 (Note: The original instructions called for ESR 54, and if you have that installed, go with it instead). If installing Firefox ESR 68, install it (here using /opt/webex) by running sudo mkdir -p /opt/webex/ && sudo tar -xjvf firefox*esr*.tar.bz2 -C /opt/webex/

Install the libraries required for Firefox (i386) to run smoothly:

sudo apt-get install \
    libgtk-3-0:i386 \
    libasound2:i386 \
    libdbus-glib-1-2:i386 \
    libxt6:i386 \
    libxtst6:i386 \
    libcanberra-gtk-module:i386 \
    libcanberra-gtk-3-module:i386 \
    topmenu-gtk3:i386

Install 32-bit JRE

Download Oracle JRE for Linux (a tar.gz archive for x86 architecture) from Oracle and unpack it to /opt/webex/ with sudo tar -xzvf jre*linux-i586.tar.gz -C /opt/webex/ && sudo mv /opt/webex/jre* /opt/webex/jre

Enable Java support in Firefox

Create symbolic links for the Java browser plugin libraries:

sudo mkdir /opt/webex/firefox/plugins/
ln -s \
    /opt/webex/jre/lib/i386/libawt.so \
    /opt/webex/jre/lib/i386/libjawt.so \
    /opt/webex/jre/lib/i386/libnpjp2.so \
    /opt/webex/firefox/plugins

Install the libraries required for Webex to run

sudo apt-get install \
    libpangoxft-1.0-0:i386 \
    libxft2:i386 \
    libpangox-1.0-0:i386 \
    libxmu6:i386 \
    libxv1:i386 \
    libasound2-plugins:i386

Create a Firefox launch script

cat << 'EOF' | sudo tee /opt/webex/firefox.sh
#!/bin/bash

export ENV_HOME=/opt/webex
export FIREFOX_HOME=$ENV_HOME/firefox
export MOZ_PLUGIN_PATH=$ENV_HOME/firefox/plugins
export JAVA_HOME=$ENV_HOME/jre
export PATH=$JAVA_HOME/bin:$PATH

#export JPI_PLUGIN2_DEBUG=1

$FIREFOX_HOME/firefox --no-remote -P
EOF

This script will start a new instance of Firefox with the ProfileManager. Choose an existing Firefox profile or create a new one.

You might want to specify a specific profile to start with. Just add the profile name after the -P flag.

Don't forget to make the script executable with sudo chmod a+x /opt/webex/firefox.sh

You might want to create a symlink, a la: sudo ln -s /opt/webex/firefox.sh /usr/local/bin/firefox-i386

Start a Webex session

Launch the script and join a Webex session.

If webex.com sends you a jnlp file and Firefox asks what to do with it, just download it. Further, in the Firefox Preferences > Applications, set the action for JNLP files: they should be opened with javaws (Java Web Start) which can be found in /opt/webex/jre/bin/javaws

(Optional) Install the missing libraries required by Webex Find out what required libraries are be missing (note that the session number may be different):

ldd ~/.webex/T30_MC/*.so | grep "not found"

You can use http://packages.ubuntu.com/ to find out which packages contain the libraries.

It is OK to have libjawt.so absent.

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