BlueJeans rpm install on Debian

bluejeans_rpm_via_alien.md

FYI, for those of us running Debian based systems rather than RedHat, the BlueJeans RPM can be successfully installed via alien

Steps to install BlueJeans on Debian

• Download BlueJeans RPM
• Install alien package sudo apt-get install alien
• Convert BlueJeans RPM to a DEB package sudo alien --to-deb --scripts bluejeans-*.rpm
• Install resulting DEB sudo dpkg -i bluejeans_*.deb
• Run BlueJeans with /opt/bluejeans/bluejeans-bin

You may get an error loading the expected udev library

/opt/bluejeans/bluejeans-bin: error while loading shared libraries: libudev.so.0: cannot open shared object file: No such file or directory

If that is the case, create a symlink from your installed libudev to the expected libudev.so.0 like so.

cd /lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/
sudo ln -s libudev.so.1  libudev.so.0

You should then be able to successfully run the bluejeans-bin application.

I would avoid pinning to a specific udev version unless you want to keep making the link on every upgrade of libudev:

$ # The link and versions here may need fixing if they push updates
$ wget http://swdl.bluejeans.com/desktop/linux/1.32/1.32.7/bluejeans-1.32.7.x86_64.rpm
...
$ sudo alien -d bluejeans-*.x86_64.rpm
...
$ sudo dpkg -i bluejeans_*_amd64.deb
...
$ cd /lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/
$ sudo ln -s libudev.so libudev.so.0

Launcher seems to be /opt/bluejeans/bluejeans-bin and it doesn't look like it's installed by default in the PATH.

Hi all!
I've got the same problem on a machine with Debian..and I've tried all the commands and lines which you have written before and still the program does not work.
I've tried to check the folder for example:
root@debian:/opt/bluejeans# gedit bluejeans-bin
(gedit:9914): GLib-GIO-CRITICAL **: g_dbus_proxy_new_sync: assertion 'G_IS_DBUS_CONNECTION (connection)' failed
(gedit:9914): GLib-GIO-CRITICAL **: g_dbus_proxy_get_name_owner: assertion 'G_IS_DBUS_PROXY (proxy)' failed
(gedit:9914): dconf-WARNING **: failed to commit changes to dconf: The connection is closed
(gedit:9914): dconf-WARNING **: failed to commit changes to dconf: The connection is closed
Error creating proxy: The connection is closed (g-io-error-quark, 18)
Error creating proxy: The connection is closed (g-io-error-quark, 18)
Error creating proxy: The connection is closed (g-io-error-quark, 18)
Error creating proxy: The connection is closed (g-io-error-quark, 18)
Error creating proxy: The connection is closed (g-io-error-quark, 18)
(gedit:9914): dconf-WARNING **: failed to commit changes to dconf: The connection is closed
(gedit:9914): dconf-WARNING **: failed to commit changes to dconf: The connection is closed
(gedit:9914): dconf-WARNING **: failed to commit changes to dconf: The connection is closed

And also, I've done the change which you said before, like:
root@debian:/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu# ls -l libudev*
lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 16 Jan 30 11:47 libudev.so.0 -> libudev.so.1.5.0
lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 16 Jul 5 2017 libudev.so.1 -> libudev.so.1.6.5
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 131344 Jul 5 2017 libudev.so.1.6.5
and still does not work...
I would like if you can give me a recomendation please!

thank you very much!

Thanks!!! Everything worked perfectly.

Hi everyone,

in order to not be affected by each minor library version change, you can link to the already created libudev.so.1 link:

sudo ln -s libudev.so.1 libudev.so.0

Works for great for me.

Ubuntu 18.10 also needs

sudo apt-get install libgconf-2-4

In my case on Ubuntu 18.04, I had to create the link to libudev.so.1.6.9 instead of libudev.so.1.6.5

command:
sudo ln -s libudev.so.1.6.9 libudev.so.0

If you add the --scripts option to alien, then it will also convert the post-install/pre-uninstall scripts, which will automatically set up the libudev symlink and also add a desktop launcher (and remove these automatically if you uninstall the package).

I had the sample problem on Ubuntu 14.04 and 16.04 Desktop, in my case I had resolved it with these steps:

sudo alien --to-deb bluejeans-_.rpm sudo dpkg -i bluejeans__.deb

And then add "--scripts" options on alien command and install it again.

sudo alien --to-deb --scripts bluejeans-_.rpm sudo dpkg -i bluejeans__.deb

Work perfectly!

Worked out-of-the-box on Debian 10.2 Buster:

sudo alien --to-deb --scripts BlueJeans.rpm
sudo dpkg -i bluejeans-v2_2.0.0-189_amd64.deb

It is installed into /opt/BlueJeans.