I just wanted to report that initially I was using Ubuntu 18.04 and the
lirc from the repository worked, appears to be:
apt-cache show lirc
Package: lirc
Architecture: amd64
Version: 0.10.0-2
Thats on my system where it still works.
However a few days ago I updated another 18.04 system that had a working
lirc, and it just completely stopped working after sudo apt-get update
&& sudo apt-get dist-upgrade
sudo irw (which was working perfectly fine) now shows:
Cannot connect to socket /var/run/lirc/lircd: No such file or directory
I noticed my arrow keys on the remote controller worked, but none of the
other buttons did, and the only thing that changed was doing the dist-
upgrade and rebooting. That caused one of my perfectly working system to
quit working.
So I followed this workaround:
https://twosortoftechguys.wordpress.com/2018/07/24/make-lirc-work-in-
ubuntu-18-04/
It does indeed get me back to working.
My other system that is still using 0.10.0-2 will likely break next time
I update it. I will have to use the workaround on it next im sure, will
hold off a few days in case I think of anything else to investigate on
the system prior to updating.
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