vlc 1.0.2 in Debian Etch

[CarlosDeAbreu]

Hi guys,

I'm trying to install vlc 1.0.2 on Debian Etch.

Until now, I downloaded de tar file and ran

cd /opt

tar -jxvf /home/carlos/Desktop/vlc-1.0.2.tar.bz2

after it finished decompressing...

cd /vlc-1.0.2

apt-get install libc-dev

./configure --prefix=/usr

everything ok until now...

but when I try to compile it with make

/opt/vlc-1.0.2#make

it throws me the following error....

note - The following line is a translation from spanish (the language I've configured)

*** No target was specified and no makefile was found. Stop

Any Idea how to finish the installation successfully, am I missing something?

according to one of the posts I've read I have to make a link to /usr/bin

ln -sf /opt/programfile/executablename /usr/bin/executablename


if this is true how can I identify the executable? what is its extension? Is this step mandatory?

Thanks in advanced!!!

[Nickos]

cd /opt/vlc-1.0.2
./configure --prefix=/usr
make

Does it make any difference ?

[reed9]

but when I try to compile it with make

/opt/vlc-1.0.2#make

it throws me the following error....

note - The following line is a translation from spanish (the language I've configured)

*** No target was specified and no makefile was found. Stop

You extracted the source to ~/Desktop/vlc-1.0.2/. The Makefile should be found there as well. Not sure why you're directing it to /opt

Note you may have other troubles down the road. Debian Etch is quite old, and it's quite likely that VLC 1.0.2 will depend on newer libraries than are available in Etch.

[CarlosDeAbreu]

you're right reed I installed Debian Etch because I couldn't install the nvidia driver on debian lenny I've a nvida GeForce4 MX 440 a quite old video card, I tried to install the .run provided by nvidia without success

[reed9]

Have you considered a distro like Ubuntu? The soon to be released 9.10 has the VLC 1.0.2 in the repos, and a handy graphical drivers manager to install your nvidia drivers.

[loopback]

As far as installing VLC, it's in Lenny's reposes. Do yourself a favor and dist-upgrade to Lenny. It's so much better. Not that anything is wrong with Etch. But do so.

Install these sources in your /etc/apt/sources.list

As root: su, input your root password. using Nano: nano /etc/apt/sources.list. Copy and paset the sources list below. Remember to delete the Etch sources. Save and exit. You can also use gedit to do the same.

deb Index of /debian lenny main
deb-src Index of /debian lenny main

deb Debian -- Security Information lenny/updates main
deb-src Debian -- Security Information lenny/updates main

#lenny main contrib non-free
deb Index of /debian lenny main contrib non-free
deb-src Index of /debian lenny main contrib non-free

# debian multimedia
deb Debian Multimedia Packages::Home lenny main

### Wicd
deb Wicd APT Repository debian extras


# If you get errors about missing keys, lookup the key in this file
# and run these commands (replace KEY with the key number):
# gpg --keyserver subkeys.pgp.net --recv KEY
# gpg --export --armor KEY | apt-key add -


Then apt-get update, apt-get dist-upgrade. You'll be in Lenny. Rock solid. Then you can search for VLC using Synaptic.

[reed9]

Hey loopback, you need to turn off automatic link parsing or enclose links in code tags.

Anyway, VLC 1.0.2 is not in Lenny. It has VLC 0.8.6. You have to go up to Sid to get 1.0.2.