Trouble installing vlc media player

[amos4live]

hi all
i followed the instruction on this site on how to install application i am using fedora 8 but i still can't can anyone help out


this is the log

[ICT@localhost Desktop]$ ls
3ddesktop-0.2.7.tar.gz gnome-terminal.desktop vlc-0.8.6e
Desktop Kon Gwa So.mp3 vlc-0.8.6e.tar.gz
Documents vlc-0.8.6c.tar.bz2 your quote.doc
[ICT@localhost Desktop]$ cd vlc-0.8.6e
[ICT@localhost vlc-0.8.6e]$ more INSTALL
$Id: INSTALL 16439 2006-08-30 19:33:55Z hartman $

INSTALL file for the VLC media player

More extensive information for *nix, Windows, Mac OS X and BeOS users can be fou
nd here:
http://developers.videolan.org/vlc/

Bootstrapping VLC
=================

If you retrieved VLC from the SVN server and do not have a "configure"
script, please refer to the HACKING file.

Configuring VLC
===============

A typical way to configure VLC is:

./configure --prefix=/usr --enable-wxwindows

See `./configure --help' for more information.

If you intend to debug stuff, you may want to compile with debugging
symbols:

make distclean ; ./configure --prefix=/usr --enable-wxwindows --enable-debug


Building VLC
============

Have a look at the generated Makefile.opts file, you may want to choose
which modules will be compiled as plugins, and which ones will remain in
the core application. The configure script tries to guess for you.

Once configured, run `make' to build VLC.


Installing and running VLC
==========================

You can install the VLC and its plugins by typing:

make install

But you don't need to install it if you don't want to; VLC can be launched
from the current directory as well:

./vlc


Building packages
=================

To build a Debian package, you need to get the packaging info
svn co svn://svn.videolan.org/pkg-multimedia/unstable/vlc/debian debian
and then
dpkg-buildpackage -rfakeroot -us -uc


To build RedHat packages, use:

rpm -ba vlc.spec

To build an ipkg package (iPAQ familiar Linux), use:

ipkg-buildpackage

[ICT@localhost vlc-0.8.6e]$
[ICT@localhost vlc-0.8.6e]$ ./configure --prefix=/usr --enable-wxwindows
checking build system type... i686-pc-linux-gnuoldld
checking host system type... i686-pc-linux-gnuoldld
checking target system type... i686-pc-linux-gnuoldld
checking for a BSD-compatible install... /usr/bin/install -c
checking whether build environment is sane... yes
checking for gawk... gawk
checking whether make sets $(MAKE)... no
checking whether to enable maintainer-specific portions of Makefiles... yes
checking for gcc... no
checking for cc... no
checking for cl.exe... no
configure: error: no acceptable C compiler found in $PATH
See `config.log' for more details.
[ICT@localhost vlc-0.8.6e]$ make
bash: make: command not found
[ICT@localhost vlc-0.8.6e]$ su
Password:
[root@localhost vlc-0.8.6e]# make install
bash: make: command not found
[root@localhost vlc-0.8.6e]#

[bigtomrodney]

There's no need to compile it from source - instead you should be able to install it using your package manager. Have a look at yum and see if it is available.

[Manchunian]

I second what bigtomodney has just said. VLC is always present in the repositories, there is absolutely no need to compile it.

[amos4live]

can you give me instruction to install it

like:
which folder to put the file
and command to install it

thanks

[elija]

I would try something like

su
(your root password)

yum install vlc

I don't know if yum will handle dependencies the way apt does, but I'm guessing it will.


It should automatically appear in your menu

[amos4live]

i did


result is

[ICT@localhost ~]$ su
Password:
[root@localhost ICT]# yum install vlc
Setting up Install Process
Parsing package install arguments
No package vlc available.
Nothing to do
[root@localhost ICT]#

[elija]

Try searching for vlc and seeing what is there. Post the results
back here

yum update
yum search vlc

[Manchunian]

It looks to me like you haven't set your repositories yet.

[i92guboj]

You should really read the basic docs for your distro, so, go to the fedora site and read a bit:

Fedora Project, sponsored by Red Hat

There you have a link about managing software with yum. Besides that, the yum man page will always be helpful.

I know nothing about fedora, but after a 10 seconds look at the man page, I think that a simple "yum search vlc" will surelly reveal any package related to vlc, in case that vlc is shipped by default with fedora (I don't really know). If not, you might need to add some repositories or something. Probably, asking in the specific section for fedora (since this a fedora-only issue) will have a better chance to get useful responses.

[devils casper]

VLC is avialable in Livna Repository. First of all, install Livna repo.
Open Terminal/Konsole and execute this

su -
rpm -Uhv http://rpm.livna.org/livna-release-8.rpm

Above code will install Livna repo. Execute this now

yum -y install vlc