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12th November 2019, 07:27 | #1 | Link |
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Compiling VLC from source in Linux
I'm currently attempting to compile VLC player in LXLE, derived from Ubuntu 18.04
Unzipping the tarball and running ./configure produces an error message about Lua being missing. I installed Lua and tried again, but got the same error. Fine then, be that way. I tried ./configure --disable-lua, and got a similar message but complaining about "Missing libav or FFmpeg". So I build ffmpeg from source and install it, which goes just fine, and try ./configure --disable-lua again... and it's STILL saying that ffmpeg is missing. So I try ./configure --disable-lua --disable-avcodec and it complains about a missing swscale. I download the swscale .deb file and install it with gdebi and try again. It can't see the swscale either, so I try ./configure --disable-lua --disable-avcodec --disable-swscale... What the hell? This can't be a coincidence. Why is VLC refusing to see that these dependencies are installed?
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Unless you really know what you are doing, the best choice is probably to install the development packages of dependencies from Ubuntu, instead of also building dependencies from source.
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13th November 2019, 11:33 | #5 | Link |
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Serves me right for trying to be helpful. The answer probably is that you need to install the -dev versions of packages, not the library versions. But since you'll never read this message, you'll never find out.
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15th November 2019, 02:02 | #6 | Link |
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NVM. After switching to a different linux distro for unrelated reasons, everything installed correctly... except Checkinstall, which does not seem to be available from any of this distribution's repositories. But I don't strictly need Checkinstall.
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