{"id":4832,"date":"2025-08-06T18:25:19","date_gmt":"2025-08-06T22:25:19","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/evanscomputers.com\/?p=4832"},"modified":"2025-08-06T18:26:22","modified_gmt":"2025-08-06T22:26:22","slug":"firestorm-viewer-install-for-linux-mint","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.evanscomputers.com\/index.php\/2025\/08\/06\/firestorm-viewer-install-for-linux-mint\/","title":{"rendered":"Firestorm Viewer install for linux Mint"},"content":{"rendered":"\r\n<p>First update your environment:<\/p>\r\n<p><br \/>Open a terminal and type the following:<br \/><code>sudo apt update; sudo apt upgrade; sudo apt autoremove<\/code><\/p>\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n<p>Then Download Firestorm from their web site.<\/p>\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.firestormviewer.org\/choose-your-platform\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">https:\/\/www.firestormviewer.org\/choose-your-platform\/<\/a><\/p>\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n<p>Pick the Penguin, and the 64 bit download.<\/p>\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n<p>Extract the file by either <br \/><code>tar -xvf Phoenix-Firestorm-Releasex64-6-6-8-68380.tar.xz<\/code><br \/>or with the file viewer using Archive Manager.<\/p>\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n<p>Now install. I install to\u00a0 \/opt\/fire\/\u00a0 the default is \/opt\/firestorm\/ anyplace in opt is fine. <br \/>Open a terminal again.<br \/>cd Phoe*68380<br \/>sudo .\/install.sh<\/p>\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n<p>If you would prefer native linux SL Voice, you will likely need to install a couple of i386 library files\u00a0 (32 bit type).<\/p>\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n<p><code>sudo apt-get install gstreamer1.0-pulseaudio:i386 libidn12:i386 libuuid1:i386 libstdc++6:i386<\/code><\/p>\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n<p>You will also need to create a symbolic link from libidn12 to libidn11 in your \/lib\/i386-linux-gnu directory.<\/p>\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n<p><code>cd \/lib\/i386-linux-gnu<\/code><\/p>\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n<p><code>sudo ln -s libidn.so.12 libidn.so.11<\/code><\/p>\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n<p>You will not need to add these files or recreate the symbolic link for subsequent installs of firestorm.<\/p>\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n<p>Firestorm should now run with linux native SLVoice support.<\/p>\r\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>First update your environment: Open a terminal and type the following:sudo apt update; sudo apt upgrade; sudo apt autoremove Then Download Firestorm from their web site. https:\/\/www.firestormviewer.org\/choose-your-platform\/ Pick the Penguin, and the 64 bit download. Extract the file by either tar -xvf Phoenix-Firestorm-Releasex64-6-6-8-68380.tar.xzor with the file viewer using Archive Manager. Now install. I install to\u00a0&hellip; <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.evanscomputers.com\/index.php\/2025\/08\/06\/firestorm-viewer-install-for-linux-mint\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Firestorm Viewer install for linux Mint<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2,220,8,219],"tags":[78,90,125,173],"class_list":["post-4832","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-announcements","category-firestorm-viewer","category-howto-2","category-second-life","tag-firestorm-viewer","tag-how-to","tag-mint-21-1","tag-sl-voice","entry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.evanscomputers.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4832","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.evanscomputers.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.evanscomputers.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.evanscomputers.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.evanscomputers.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4832"}],"version-history":[{"count":8,"href":"https:\/\/www.evanscomputers.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4832\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4886,"href":"https:\/\/www.evanscomputers.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4832\/revisions\/4886"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.evanscomputers.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4832"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.evanscomputers.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4832"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.evanscomputers.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4832"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}