Although when starting lives again the menu was flaky which means it may not be usable. This maybe due to running it in a virtual machine.

Are you in the USA? IF so, would you be willing to give a phone number *privately to one person* (IF they could figure out how to contact you)?

I'm guessing you somehow get to its icon and click on it, and nothing happens. Do you think you could get to a terminal, where you could try running it from the shell command line?

Just fyi, I grabbed the source here and tried compiling it. I have Slackware-15.0, where every package contains the 'devel' package, and the docs. Release date was spring 2022.

The compile died

1. For the lack of rpc.h. It appears that's been added to other includes, and I managed to get past it with a symlink.
2. Missing /usr/include/pango/pango.h. The whole includes setup appears to have been revised so I stopped here.

EDIT: Have you tried openshot?

I went for it. Ubuntu 22.04 live, windows pc.

I can’t get ImageMagick to install. I’ve followed several instructions online. It’s not available in the software center like they say it is.

I’ve followed directions for installing from the terminal. They do not get ImageMagick installed. I get errors. I follow further instructions to update libraries and other things… they do not result in ImageMagick installing on my computer.

The instructions say it is a very simple process but I am having no success. I’ve spent hours.

Is it possible to prepare an image that will have Linux and a working version of liVES? Something I can load onto a USB and boot from? I would pay for this service. It’s proven to be far too difficult for me.

Business_kid

Thanks for giving it a try! No, I’ve never heard of openshot. I’ll check it out!

Would still love to see liVES. This has been on my mind for a long time and I thank you all for helping me work through it.

Mister underscores,

Yes I am in the USA and could be contacted by phone. I don’t know how to take it from there…


This liVES thing seems to be totally unstable. I figured some sort of “wayback machine” could run a past version with a past Linux. It definitely worked at some point in the past. In 2023 is it toast?

My friend tried to help me get this thing going a year ago. He has a PhD in computer science and uses Linux daily. He tried running it many different ways, including command line. We could get the program to launch, the ugly “liVES” graphic splash screen would show up, and that’s it. It would never get past there.

He said he had an idea of what was wrong and to try a bunch of things, none of which worked. Hence why my initial request here was just to have someone try it out and tell me yea or nay. Right now I think it’s a nay.

After thinking a bit lives might not be working due to Ubuntu using wayland versus Xorg (X11 server). I did a quick install of Mint 21.2 as a VirtualBox VM which does use Xorg. I installed ImageMagick and then lives without issues and lives started and seemed to be working ok. I prefer installing from the command line.

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Awesome!!

I got all the way to sudo apt install imagemagick. It worked no problem.

Sudo apt install lives did not work for me. Many errors.

Is there an obvious reason for this?

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I don't know. Try:
sudo apt update
sudo apt search libsox-fmt-alsa

Hey alright! You figured it out!

Here it is running on my laptop. I can’t truly test it at the moment, but I’m confident it’s the real thing.

Many, many thanks! I’m grateful that reaching out for help went so well. I’m glad to see it works and I’m going to enjoy checking it out!

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