Comment 25 for bug 153457

I am running 10.04.1 on an Asus EB1012. I was able to work around this with the iguanair deb file that is currently on iguanaworks .net, iguanaIR-1.0.1-1.i386.deb, but the lirc package they had there, lirc_0.8.7~pre3-0ubuntu1_i386.deb, gave a broken install. I rm'ed it and used the link above in comment #23, and it works, but it is not exposed in their downloads section anymore. I followed their advice to issue the command "echo lirc hold| sudo dpkg --set-selections", although I am not sure it will work. Synaptic shows a bang in the icon button for lirc. I will have to wait and see what update manager tries to do with it.

From what I gather here there is some problem upstream with including iguanaIR in Debian. Is this some sort of purity deal? Is there some legitimate reason support is not included? What is Debian ITP?

I have been using and programming for UNIX for 25 years and even with all the wonderful features it still takes pretty much of an expert to get many things running. I have spent almost two full days to get this running.