Sunday, June 13, 2010

Ninjavideo on Ubuntu Lucid


So after much troubleshooting I've finally upgraded to Lucid. (I hate empathy but combined with the applets its actually kinda nice).
After upgrading though I realized that I could no longer watch ninjavideo. So, in order to get it working again (steps have changed again):

1) Uninstall totem-mozilla
To do this the simply open up terminal (Hit Alt+F2 and type in 'gnome-terminal', then hit enter)
In terminal run the command 'sudo apt-get remove totem-mozilla'. Then type in your password when prompted (note: you won't see stars to indicate letters in your password, this is normal)

2) Install java (Note: I'm no longer using sun-java. Using the opensource version)
The easiest way to do this is to install ubuntu-restricted-extras
In terminal run the command 'sudo apt-get ubuntu-restricted-extras'

3) Install gecko-mediaplayer
In terminal run the command 'sudo apt-get install gecko-mediaplayer'

4) Install greasemonkey


And thats it. Now simply navigate to ninjavideo, open up the applet (let it run when the security dialogue pops up) and navigate to any video. :D

2 comments:

Anonymous said...

I get "Invalid operation ubuntu-restricted-extras"
when I run the command 'sudo apt-get install gecko-mediaplayer'

myd said...

1) Ninjavideo is now down for good, so this guide is useless.
2) Do you have ubuntu-restricted-extras installed? Just run 'sudo apt-get install ubuntu-restricted-extras' before trying to install gecko-mediaplayer.

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