Installing Blackmagic Drivers

[S.A.S]

Sorry to be a pest but i really need this hardware installed and Ubuntu keeps giving me errors everytime i try and install either the Decklink drivers or the Media express software

They are the latest drivers from the blackmagic website.

The error i recieve is

There seems to be a programming error in aptdaemon, the software that allows you to install/remove software and to perform other package management related tasks. Please report this error at http://launchpad.net/aptdaemon/+filebug and retry.

thanks for your help

 

[S.A.S]

No idea but I'd make the following suggestions/points/etc

- what version of Ubuntu?
- is it patched up to date?
- do you have all the pre-requisites for the drivers installed as per the readme?
- are you that your downloaded deb file is not corrupt?
- what is the command and exact output you are running when the error occurs
- kernel version?

thanks for your reply

- it is ubuntu 10.10
- it is fully up to date
- the read me just states to run the correct driver file for your version of linux in my case it would be the .deb files.
- i downloaded the drivers twice to check and still got the error upon execution
- i just double click the driver and it opens in the ubuntu package installer and then the error occurs once i click install
- 2.6.35-24-generic-pae

 

[S.A.S]

I'd possibly try the command line installation method as given in the readme (for Decklink at least) to see if it gave any other information about what's going wrong.

Regarding pre-requisites the readme file does say that you should have the following installed:

* dkms
* opengl (recommended)
* kernel-headers (or source) (for currently running kernel)
* gcc, make
* glibc 2.8

Depending on your install options you may not have all of these, (although if you do not have them then I would expect the installer software to give a dependency error instead of just falling over.

i will give it a try and where did you find these install notes, they did not come with the package i downloaded?

 

[S.A.S]

here are the details for the error code i get when installing if it helps

Traceback (most recent call last):
File "/usr/lib/python2.6/dist-packages/aptdaemon/worker.py", line 768, in simulate
return self._simulate_helper(trans, status_path)
File "/usr/lib/python2.6/dist-packages/aptdaemon/worker.py", line 851, in _simulate_helper
size = int(deb["Installed-Size"]) * 1024
ValueError: invalid literal for int() with base 10: ''

 

[S.A.S]

Yeah finaly done it thanks for the help, especially with thats readme.

iin the end i had to downgrade dpkg to an older version to get the drivers and media express to install. alls good now.

thanks again