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Well today I finally managed to get SiriProxy working on my Ubuntu VMware installation.

I wanted to try this to see all the cool things that could be done.

Plugins I currently have installed:

• Twitter
• Facebook
• IMDB

I messed up the first installation on my Ubuntu installation which resulted in endless problems. I got around this by completely reinstalling Ubuntu, since this was just going to be used for a Siri Proxy it didnt really make a difference to reinstall it or not.

Now that Siri Proxy is up and running I love it, still not sure why Apple hasn’t allowed all this stuff already.

More to come when I’m not so tired.

The installation guide I used is from Github

#Here’s what I did to get to the point where I’m at:

#-Install Ubuntu 11.10

#-Get all available updates

#-Add the VirtualBox add-ons and video driver

#-Set up SSH (for the SCP at the end)

#

# I have done nothing else to this virtual machine.

# On my iPhone, I set the DNS server to 192.168.2.131 (the IP of the virtual machine)

#

# That’s all the pre-setup that was done on the iPhone (the certificate is installed as part of the process)

# Here are the exact steps steps I followed:

#Install all the prerequisites

sudo apt-get install dnsmasq ruby build-essential openssl libreadline6 libreadline6-dev curl git-core zlib1g zlib1g-dev libssl-dev libyaml-dev libsqlite3-0 libsqlite3-dev sqlite3 libxml2-dev libxslt-dev autoconf libc6-dev ncurses-dev automake libtool bison subversion

#edit the dnsmasq conf

sudo vi /etc/dnsmasq.conf

# Keystrokes in vi:

# /address=

# A <enter> address=/guzzoni.apple.com/192.168.2.131 <–This is the IP of the VM

# <esc> :wq!

#Restart dnsmasq

sudo /etc/init.d/dnsmasq restart

#Install RVM

bash < <(curl -s https://raw.github.com/wayneeseguin/rvm/master/binscripts/rvm-installer)

#Set RVM path

[[ -s "$HOME/.rvm/scripts/rvm" ]] && . “$HOME/.rvm/scripts/rvm”

#Set the RVM path to be set up every time I log in

echo ‘[[ -s "$HOME/.rvm/scripts/rvm" ]] && . “$HOME/.rvm/scripts/rvm” # Load RVM function’ >> ~/.bash_profile

#Install Ruby 1.9.3 — This will take several minutes

rvm install 1.9.3

#Use ruby 1.9.3 as the default (and current) version of ruby

rvm use 1.9.3 –default

#clone the SiriProxy repo

git clone git://github.com/plamoni/SiriProxy.git

#Enter the SiriProxy directory

cd SiriProxy

#Install SiriProxy — Can take a minute or two

rake install

#Make the .siriproxy directory in my home directory

mkdir ~/.siriproxy

#Copy the example config

cp ./config.example.yml ~/.siriproxy/config.yml

#Generate the certificates

siriproxy gencerts

#Install the certificate on the phone.

# The way I do it in the video is through dropbox on my host machine.

# You can email the certificate to yourself, or whatever floats your boat.

# Here’s the SCP command I use in the video. It’s probably 100% worthless to anyone else

#

# scp 192.168.2.131:~/.siriproxy/ca.pem ~/Dropbox/Public/siri.vm.pem

#Bundle SiriProxy (this installs the plugins and whatnot)

siriproxy bundle

#Start the server

rvmsudo siriproxy server