I can’t get WebEx to work with my new Ubuntu 8.10 installation. It just gets stuck at this screen and does nothing:
If you get it to work, please comment any tips. You can try with this link:
I can’t get WebEx to work with my new Ubuntu 8.10 installation. It just gets stuck at this screen and does nothing:
If you get it to work, please comment any tips. You can try with this link:
Yugma offers a Linux client that lets you not only join meetings, but host them too.
I tried Yugma, and it looks like a nice product. It does look like it requires a monthly fee if you want to give control of your desktop or get control of another person’s desktop. My problem is that my company has already purchased a WebEx account, and I don’t want to pay for another service.
I did find a post that helped finally!
http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=1032270
The answer was to install ubuntu-restricted-extras —
sudo apt-get install ubuntu-restricted-extras
Hi
I had the same problem and ubuntu-resctricted-extras fixed it for me.
Now I can join a meeting but I can not see shared applications, only shared documents. Shared application only opens a solid black window. Tested with two Ubuntu 8.10 machines, both gives the same result.
Any ideas?
Dave,
Thanks for the comment. It is great to know someone else out there is going through the same thing.
On the shared applications, I haven’t tried that. We always just share the desktop. I used the shared desktop the other day and it worked with no problem. I will keep an eye out for solutions though.
I am having the same issue with ubuntu 8.10, firefox 3.0.6. I get the screen you show with the initial posting.
…and ubuntu-restricted-extras did not do the trick for me.
I look forward to tracking this for a solution.
awoods,
Take a look at this older post and see if it helps:
http://linuxsagas.wordpress.com/2008/08/19/webex-in-linux/
Also, make sure that you have java installed. Here are the packages that I have installed:
$ dpkg –get-selections | grep -i java
java-common install
libbackport-util-concurrent-java install
libcommons-beanutils-java install
libcommons-codec-java install
libcommons-collections3-java install
libcommons-digester-java install
libcommons-logging-java install
libdb-je-java install
libdb4.5-java install
libdb4.5-java-gcj install
libdom4j-java install
libjaxen-java install
libjaxme-java install
libjaxp1.3-java install
libjaxp1.3-java-gcj install
libjdom1-java install
libjline-java install
libjtidy-java install
liblog4j1.2-java install
liblog4j1.2-java-gcj install
liblucene2-java install
libregexp-java install
libsaxonb-java install
libservlet2.3-java install
libxerces2-java install
libxerces2-java-gcj install
libxom-java install
libxpp2-java install
libxpp3-java install
openoffice.org-java-common install
sun-java6-bin install
sun-java6-jdk install
sun-java6-jre install
sun-java6-plugin install
sun-java6-source install
I got it working
had to install:
ubuntu-restricted-extras
sun-java6-plugin
libstdc++5
Some folks talked about exporing the java home and path, but that didn’t make a differnce for me.
Thanks for the hints/help, Nate and digitaleagle.
The missing piece for me was:
sudo apt-get install libstdc++5
Works like a charm now.
Installing libstdc++5 worked for me also.
Thanks!
Worked for me too after installing
sudo apt-get install ubuntu-restricted-extras
sudo apt-get install libstdc++5
I have Ubuntu 9.04 (jaunty) and Firefox 3.0.10
Hi,
Worked for me …
sudo apt-get install ubuntu-restricted-extras
on MacBook 2,1 & Interpid 8.10
Don’t have to boot MacOS X when meeting approaches!