Install miro video player via terminal

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I’ve tried following the instructions but after installing ppa, I don't know what should I do with about the Synaptic Package Manager and all. Also my download doesn’t start automatically and when I click on 'if download doesn’t start automatically' link it takes me back to the homepage. I have no idea what I'm doing and what I've to do now? I want to install miro via terminal!

I’m using 14.04-LTS.
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I've referred this and successfully installed a 4.04 versioned miro. The homepage shows the latest version as 6.0 What should I do to upgrade?

It looks like the package is pretty old. What version of Ubuntu are you running? (Output of cat /etc/*release will tell you.) — KGIII, Nov 15 '15 at 12:39
Ah ha! You speedy devil. Will a .deb do? It should install via GDebi just fine. I see a version for the current release but you need to go with your release version's name. Or want to try it, at any rate. See here. — KGIII, Nov 15 '15 at 12:49
I will have to install Gdebi first ryt? Then download the version from the link you provided and open it with gdebi and done? @KGIII — abhishah901, Nov 15 '15 at 12:52
GDebi should already be installed - I think it's default with every Ubuntu but, if not, go ahead and install it. There's an "apt" link at the URL I gave you but I've never tried it. — KGIII, Nov 15 '15 at 12:55
It installed a 4.0.4 version and I wanted the 6.0.1 version.. What should I do? @KGIII and others — abhishah901, Nov 15 '15 at 12:59
Do you want to install miro or you want to install only from that particular PPA? @abhishah901 — Ravan, Nov 15 '15 at 13:08
Possible duplicate of How do I install software using the Ubuntu Software Center? — Braiam, Nov 15 '15 at 20:01
You don't need a terminal to 1) adding a ppa 2) install software. You need miro, that question will help you get miro, if you get the correct ppa. Oh, and project seems dead since 2013, so don't expect it to work out of the box. — Braiam, Nov 16 '15 at 06:16
You get the 4.0 version at the software centre but I want the latest!@Braiam — abhishah901, Nov 16 '15 at 06:23

score 2 · Accepted Answer · edited Apr 13 '17 at 12:25

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Open a terminal and run (Ctrl+Alt+T)

Note: These are third party PPA's for miro and ffmpeg, not supported by their developers, they may be obsolete and insecure (at the moment of this post, the latest build of FFmpeg was 2014-03-29 which lags behind several Security Advisories and Miro 2014-10-22), use it at you own risk.

 sudo add-apt-repository ppa:ubuntuhandbook1/ppa
 sudo add-apt-repository ppa:joyard-nicolas/ffmpeg
 sudo apt-get update
 sudo apt-get install ffmpeg miro

_{reference here}

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answered Nov 15 '15 at 13:07

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Cannot add PPA: 'ppa:djcj/vlc-stable'. Please check that the PPA name or format is correct. For the second command – abhishah901 Nov 15 '15 at 13:14
@abhishah901 updated =) – Ravan Nov 15 '15 at 13:17

score 2 · Answer 2 · edited Nov 15 '15 at 13:58

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If sudo apt-get install miro does not work from the terminal then the simplest way to do this is to download the appropriate DEB file from this site and use the appropriate version for your version of Ubuntu.

When downloaded, just open the DEB file and click on the install button. In my case, it gave a warning about there already being a copy in the repository but I just ignored it and installed with GDebi. GDebi should already be installed. If not, you can install it from the terminal with

sudo apt-get install gdebi

This is a picture of it working with the installer still open:

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Which one's the appropriate package for 14.04? – abhishah901 Nov 15 '15 at 13:15
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It is "Trusty" for 14.04. I don't have a 14.04 image to check but you can probably install the .deb file for version 6 at that site that I linked to. Otherwise, see the answer from @Ravan for more information. – KGIII Nov 15 '15 at 13:24
Thanks but the other answer did the job through the terminal. Thanks for the help though! Appreciated! – abhishah901 Nov 15 '15 at 13:28
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Perfect. Glad you got it sorted. I'll leave it up in case someone decides to do it with the GUI. I'm on 15.10 so it is already in the repository which would have been cheating. :D – KGIII Nov 15 '15 at 13:33

Install miro video player via terminal

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