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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:
Linux Sagas 
February 23, 2009 at 4:48 pm
Yugma offers a Linux client that lets you not only join meetings, but host them too.
February 28, 2009 at 3:18 am
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
March 4, 2009 at 1:02 pm
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?
March 4, 2009 at 1:07 pm
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.
March 5, 2009 at 7:31 pm
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.
March 5, 2009 at 10:54 pm
awoods,
Take a look at this older post and see if it helps:
https://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
March 16, 2009 at 10:16 pm
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.
March 17, 2009 at 2:49 pm
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.
May 7, 2009 at 1:31 pm
Installing libstdc++5 worked for me also.
Thanks!
May 12, 2009 at 10:43 pm
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
May 27, 2009 at 2:58 pm
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!
September 11, 2009 at 11:24 am
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