Zattoo on AMD64

This is a short guide to installing the zattoo video player on a AMD64 xubuntu. I assume that you have a working i386 chroot, if not, you can look at this guide.

Step 0:

• Download the debian package for zattoo from http://zattoo.com/en/download/linux

Step 1:

• sudo chroot /chroot/
• apt-get install dbus-x11 libgtkglext1 libgtkglext1 libgnomeui-0 libcurl3 gconf2 libxul0d
• dpkg -i /path/to/zatto.deb
• ln -s /usr/bin/zattoo_player /usr/bin/zattoo_player32
• exit
• sudo ln -s /usr/local/bin/do_dchroot /usr/local/bin/zattoo_player32

Now you can watch TV on your desktop. You need a account thoug, but you can register a new account when the program is started.

Here’s a couple of screenshots:

Above: Zattoo’s main window, showing the danish channel TV2. Of course the video is not looking like that, but I guess I took the screenshot at a bad time.

This is a feature that is quite cool. It speaks for itself I guess. (Click for a bigger picture).

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Tags: amd64, linux, ubuntu, zattoo