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.

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.