You can now install and update get_iplayer using DEB and RPM packages for Linux. I’ve tried to keep them as generic as possible so the RPMs will most likely work just fine on all Redhat/Fedora derived Linux distributions. Same goes for the DEB packages on all Debian derived distros such as Ubuntu.
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Darn, my server crashed quite badly today (web, email, dns, imap - the lot). It ran Fedora6 with Centos5 on Xen. Looks like it was some hardware problem due to possible overheating Maybe it was that additional graphics card I added a few days ago… It caused a whole lot of filesystem corruption [...]