Get IPLAYER - problems

[m654321]

It appears that support for the 3.01 version of get_iplayer stopped on the 18th August 2017. This may explain why the 3.01 package mysteriously disappeared from the Ubuntu repository, sometime between May and August. The latest 3.02 version was published on the 22nd August.

If you want to install the 3.02 version, you will need to first delete any previous version of both get-iplayer and its dependency, atomic parsley.  The default version of atomicparsley (in the Ubuntu repository) is 0.9.2, but you will need a later version for 3.02 to work. You can delete these packages using Synaptic Package Manager (Menu System Install/Remove Software).

Then, follow these two steps to install and run get_iplayer 3.02.

First step
Download the atomicparsley 0.9.6 dependency from ...
https://forums.linuxmint.com/viewtopic.p...8&t=250289

If you are using the LL3 series, you will need the xenial version of atomicparsley - the link is shown under the paragraph beginning with "Linux Mint 18.x wrote..."  Click on the link. The package to download will then appear on your desktop; right click on it, then click "Open with GDebi Package Installer", to install the package.

Second step
Download get_iplayer_3.02 from ...
https://launchpad.net/~jon-hedgerows/+ar.../+packages

Scroll down past "changelog", until you come to "Package files"
Click on get-iplayer_3.02-1-ge2c5943-ppa30c~xenial_all.deb

The package to download will then appear on your desktop; as above use GDebi to install it.

When done, you're now ready to go. Just open the terminal and type get_iplayer after the prompt, to get the BBC TV listings.  To download one or more TV programmes, type get_iplayer -g [programme number].  If you have more than one TV programme to download, leave one character space between each number in the list (don't use commas).

I hope this fix for get_iplayer works for you (as it did me). Ongoing issues with get_iplayer can be frustrating, but it seems there is usually a way around them - at least so far so good - thanks to some clever folk leaving their solutions to Linux issues on the web ...

Mike