Hello Linux Geeksters. As you may know, Livestreamer is a command line interface tool that streams videos from different video services into a video player, like VLC. Among others, it has support for the following video services: Dailymotion, Livestream, Twitch/Justin.tv and UStream.
The latest version available is Livestream 1.6. For a list of features and improvements brought by the latest update, see the official changelog.
In this article I will show you how to install Livestreamer 1.6.2 on Ubuntu 13.04 Raring Ringtail, Ubuntu 12.04 Precise Pangolin, Linux Mint 15 Olivia, Linux Mint 13 Maya and Elementary OS 0.2 Luna.
Because it is available via the GetDeb repository, installing Livestreamer 1.6 on Ubuntu, Linux Mint and Elementary OS is easy. Follow the instructions for your system exactly, in order to get a successful installation.
How to install Livestream 1.6 on Ubuntu 13.04 Raring Ringtail, Linux Mint 15 Olivia and Pear OS 8:
$ wget -q -O - http://archive.getdeb.net/getdeb-archive.key | sudo apt-key add -
$ sudo sh -c 'echo "deb http://archive.getdeb.net/ubuntu raring-getdeb games" >> /etc/apt/sources.list.d/getdeb.list'
$ sudo apt-get update
$ sudo apt-get install python-livestreamer
How to install Livestream 1.6 on Ubuntu 12.04 Precise Pangolin, Linux Mint 13 Maya and Elementary OS 0.2 Luna:
$ wget -q -O - http://archive.getdeb.net/getdeb-archive.key | sudo apt-key add -
$ sudo sh -c 'echo "deb http://archive.getdeb.net/ubuntu precise-getdeb games" >> /etc/apt/sources.list.d/getdeb.list'
$ sudo apt-get update
$ sudo apt-get install python-livestreamer