Webbrowser for Ultimo

[Rob van der Does]

As you may know, VU+ launched a webbrowser for all their boxes some time ago. It's a huge package, that is integrated in their (official) images. Although we (= Andy) are doing our best to provide a plugin as optional functionality, we didn't yet succeed in that.
There is however an alternative way to get the browser installed on your Ultimo, following the guidelines beneath (thanks to Ralf):

First of all download the install package

Installation procedure of the VU+ WebBrowser:
1- FTP the folder VU_HD to usr/share/enigma2
2- Copy all the other files to /tmp
3- Login with Telnet, CD/TMP and execute in the following order
opkg install lib*.ipk
opkg install qt4*.ipk
opkg install vu*.ipk
opkg install enigma*.ipk
The order is important because lib* and qt4* are dependencies and must be installed first.
After a reboot the webbrowser is available via the plugin browser.

Although the browser is supposed to be functional on the UNO & DUO as well, this is not the case using UBIFS (i.e. not using an image that is based on the 3.1.1 kernel).

I hope VU+ will be busy implementing HBTV: much more interesting!