{"id":3719,"date":"2014-07-29T14:14:22","date_gmt":"2014-07-29T14:14:22","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/ubuntuhandbook.org\/?p=3719"},"modified":"2024-04-23T15:27:30","modified_gmt":"2024-04-23T15:27:30","slug":"digital-tv-guide-ubuntu-tv-browser","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ubuntuhandbook.org\/index.php\/2014\/07\/digital-tv-guide-ubuntu-tv-browser\/","title":{"rendered":"Get Digital TV Guide in Ubuntu with TV-Browser"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/ubuntuhandbook.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/07\/tv-browser-icon.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-3720\" src=\"https:\/\/ubuntuhandbook.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/07\/tv-browser-icon.png\" alt=\"TV-Browser Ubuntu 14.04\" width=\"240\" height=\"240\" srcset=\"https:\/\/ubuntuhandbook.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/07\/tv-browser-icon.png 240w, https:\/\/ubuntuhandbook.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/07\/tv-browser-icon-150x150.png 150w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 240px) 100vw, 240px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>TV-browser is a free and open-source app which gets the daily TV program from the internet and shows it clearly arranged &#8211; like a printed TV guide. An internet connection is only necessary during the data update. It provides more than 1000 TV stations and 100 radio channels.<\/p>\n<p>TV-browser works on Windows, Linux, MacOS, OS\/2 with Java runtime minimum version 6.0. And, its features include:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Electronic TV guide<\/li>\n<li>More than 1000 (mostly German and European) TV stations<\/li>\n<li>More than 100 radio channels<\/li>\n<li>Remote control of hard- and software<\/li>\n<li>Extensible with plug-ins<\/li>\n<li>Configurable with skins, icon sets and many options<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/ubuntuhandbook.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/07\/tvbroser2.webp\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/ubuntuhandbook.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/07\/tvbroser2-700x448.webp\" alt=\"\" width=\"610\" height=\"390\" class=\"aligncenter size-large wp-image-46306\" srcset=\"https:\/\/ubuntuhandbook.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/07\/tvbroser2-700x448.webp 700w, https:\/\/ubuntuhandbook.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/07\/tvbroser2-300x192.webp 300w, https:\/\/ubuntuhandbook.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/07\/tvbroser2-768x491.webp 768w, https:\/\/ubuntuhandbook.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/07\/tvbroser2-1320x845.webp 1320w, https:\/\/ubuntuhandbook.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/07\/tvbroser2.webp 1330w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 610px) 100vw, 610px\" \/><\/a><br \/>\nThe latest release at the moment of writing is ersion 4.2.7. According to the release note in its <a href=\"https:\/\/www.tvbrowser.org\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">website.<\/a> It&#8217;s a bug-fix release, also include a feature that it will now automatically keep Reminders for programs for which the start time has changed by a couple of minutes during a data update.<\/p>\n<h3>Install TV-browser in Ubuntu:<\/h3>\n<p>The app is easy to install in Ubuntu now, since it provides an official <code>.deb<\/code> package for Debian and Ubuntu users.<\/p>\n<p>To download it, just go to the link below:<\/p>\n<div class=\"wp-block-buttons aligncenter\">\n<div class=\"wp-block-button is-style-fill\"><a class=\"wp-block-button__link has-vivid-cyan-blue-to-vivid-purple-gradient-background has-text-color has-background\" href=\"https:\/\/sourceforge.net\/projects\/tvbrowser\/files\/TV-Browser%20Releases%20%28Java%2011%20and%20higher%29\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Download TV Browser<\/a><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p>Select the latest version, then click download the package with <b>.deb<\/b> extension.<\/p>\n<p>After downloaded the package, press Ctrl+Alt+T on keyboard to open up a terminal window, then use the command below to install it:<\/p>\n<pre>sudo apt install drag'n'drop-deb-file-here<\/pre>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/ubuntuhandbook.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/07\/install-tvbrowser-deb.webp\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-large wp-image-46303\" src=\"https:\/\/ubuntuhandbook.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/07\/install-tvbrowser-deb-700x411.webp\" alt=\"\" width=\"610\" height=\"358\" srcset=\"https:\/\/ubuntuhandbook.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/07\/install-tvbrowser-deb-700x411.webp 700w, https:\/\/ubuntuhandbook.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/07\/install-tvbrowser-deb-300x176.webp 300w, https:\/\/ubuntuhandbook.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/07\/install-tvbrowser-deb-768x451.webp 768w, https:\/\/ubuntuhandbook.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/07\/install-tvbrowser-deb.webp 856w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 610px) 100vw, 610px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Once installed, search for and launch it from either start menu or GNOME&#8217;s overview screen. And, first time launching the app, you need to follow the wizard to download plugins that you need.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/ubuntuhandbook.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/07\/launch-tv-browser.webp\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-46304\" src=\"https:\/\/ubuntuhandbook.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/07\/launch-tv-browser.webp\" alt=\"\" width=\"480\" height=\"270\" srcset=\"https:\/\/ubuntuhandbook.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/07\/launch-tv-browser.webp 480w, https:\/\/ubuntuhandbook.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/07\/launch-tv-browser-300x169.webp 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 480px) 100vw, 480px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<h3>Uninstall TV-Browser<\/h3>\n<p>To uninstall the software package, also open terminal (Ctrl+Alt+T) and run command:<\/p>\n<pre>sudo apt remove --autoremove tvbrowser<\/pre>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>TV-browser is a free and open-source app which gets the daily TV program from the internet and shows it clearly arranged &#8211; like a printed TV guide. An internet connection is only necessary during the data update. It provides more than 1000 TV stations and 100 radio channels. TV-browser works on Windows, Linux, MacOS, OS\/2 [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[1125,855],"class_list":["post-3719","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-howtos","tag-digital-tv-guide","tag-ubuntu-14-04"],"amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ubuntuhandbook.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3719","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/ubuntuhandbook.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/ubuntuhandbook.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ubuntuhandbook.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ubuntuhandbook.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3719"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/ubuntuhandbook.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3719\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ubuntuhandbook.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3719"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ubuntuhandbook.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3719"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ubuntuhandbook.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3719"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}