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Friday, August 8, 2014

Ace Stream Player In Ubuntu/Linux Mint: New Method

Since my April article, there were plenty of development. Well, except for a good build of Ace Stream engine/player/plugin for Ubuntus of 14.04 level: for whatever reason, developer(s) of Ace don't consider it pressing matter for them. Then,  a third parties' builds happen to be either not committed or outright unfeasible.

As of today, even a new, improved installation procedure remains convoluted and not all 100% guaranteed working, even with a new, fixed Ace Stream distro. With my new laptop running fresh Linux Mint 17, I stumbled upon similar stubbornness as previously: unmet dependencies, libs with deprecated classifications, all nine yards.

In case of

Зависит: acestream-player (>= 2.1.6-1raring2) но он не будет установлен acestream-mozilla-plugin (>= 2.1.6-1raring2) но он не будет установлен
E: Невозможно исправить ошибки, у вас отложены (held) битые пакеты.

I was lucky following advice of Sandoro's comment here: manual installations (GDebi) of every component in the "fixed" Ace Stream package.

Warning: it may not work for everyone, or on every Ubuntu flavour. Also, as I get it, it may only work with acestream-engine only in Debian and its derivatives, as it was the case before.

But there are also some confirmations that re-installations following (repeating) the original procedure improve your chances of success.

As far as I know, this new "fixed" Ace Stream distro won't let you have an acestream-plugin in Chrome/Chromium still: Chrome framework/sandbox becomes rigid as a stone, right before our eyes.

As if it helps anything... Go FireFox, go! I didn't check Ace with Pale Moon yet though.

One candy for you all: try recent P2P Streams HBMCHUB addon with its collection of very sweet plugins.
 

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