opened the broadcasting settings in minecraft, and it gave me the error seen in the screenshot.
MC-41317
Twitch stream Unable to load streaming libraries UBUNTU 13.10
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broadcast, libraries, linux, stream, twitch
Minecraft 13w48b
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Your system does not meet the minimum requirements to run TwitchTV:
Requirements for streaming: Windows: Vista/7/8 (32 or 64bit) and Mac: 10.8/10.9 (64bit only).
Windows XP is not supported by Twitch.tv and it is recommended you upgrade your operating system as Microsoft will be dropping support for XP on April 08, 2014.
Linux streaming is currently unsupported as the appropriate Java libraries have not been released by Twitch.tv at this time.