Livestation

As a Bloomberg fanatic probably the best software ever is livestation - and it runs fine on the AAO. Here's how.

Download Linux version from livestation.com.

Where you see tab press tab and BASH should autocomplete the file name

Enter the folder where you download by default in terminal with 

cd /home/user/Downloads

chmod +x Livestation [tab]

sudo ./Livestation [tab]

Press q, y, enter, enter ... follow instructions. It's quite a good installer - a lot better than crappy RPMs.

You can try running it now with livestation & - but wait - a library error! Woe betide us!

Lets just copy libpcre.so.0 to  libpcre.so.3 

This procedure is probably nefarious, and will probably ruin your computer.

cd /lib/

sudo cp libpcre.so.0  libpcre.so.3

Open with livestation &

I wonder if it works for non-bloomberg channels. We may never know. Seems the AAO is a second rate notebook, but a first class television.