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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.

@doug-rosser
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As of August 9, 2017 (and using Ubuntu 16.04.3) I had to use a slightly different symlink:

sudo ln -s libudev.so.1.6.4 libudev.so.0

@Justin417
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Thank you very much for this information. Worked great on my Ubuntu 16.04 Desktop.

@matiascestoni
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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

@ishanthilina
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ishanthilina commented Jan 11, 2018 •
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As of January 11, 2018 (using Ubuntu 17.04), had to use the following symlink.

sudo ln -s libudev.so.1.6.5 libudev.so.0

@sgnn7
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sgnn7 commented Jan 25, 2018

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.

@renormalon
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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!

@dariodematties
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Thanks!!! Everything worked perfectly.

@telegrapher
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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.

@yurii-polishchuk
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Ubuntu 18.10 also needs

sudo apt-get install libgconf-2-4

@jukerok
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jukerok commented Apr 2, 2019 •
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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

@jefferyto
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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).

@mrcomoraes
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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!

@rahra
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rahra commented Jan 27, 2020

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.

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