[HowTo] Install Bluejeans app on Ubuntu

Bluejeans has been working great on my Chrome browser with just Chrome Bluejeans meeting extension. When I tried to join a meeting today, it suddenly refused to open and wanted me to open using an external application. The software that BlueJeans can offer is just an rpm file.

I had to convert that binary to work with debian based distros and install it.

Steps to install BlueJeans on Debian

• Download BlueJeans RPM from their website.
• Install alien package to convert RPM binary to DEB that works with Ubuntu .

sudo apt-get install alien
sudo alien — to-deb bluejeans-*.rpm
sudo dpkg -i bluejeans_*.deb

• Run BlueJeans with /opt/bluejeans/bluejeans-bin

I got the below error while running

/opt/bluejeans/bluejeans-bin: error while loading shared libraries: libudev.so.0: cannot open shared object file: No such file or directory

I had to create a symlink from my libudev installed location like below.

cd /lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/;ls
sudo ln -s libudev.so.1.6.4 libudev.so.0

You can now just start the application by running

/opt/bluejeans/bluejeans-bin

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