Comments on: How to install VLC media player 0.9.9 from Source in Debian Lenny

By: yinkster

yinkster — Sat, 07 Nov 2009 13:55:42 +0000

Everything seems to have gone well with my installation. I had the errors described above but I installed both of the packages suggested by yxyc and Brandan. What I then had at the end of make and make install were:


test -z "/usr/local/share/man/man1" || /bin/mkdir -p "/usr/local/share/man/man1"
 /usr/bin/install -c -m 644 vlc.1 vlc-wrapper.1 vlc-config.1 '/usr/local/share/man/man1'
make[3]: Leaving directory `/home/yinkster/vlc-1.0.3/doc'
make[2]: Leaving directory `/home/yinkster/vlc-1.0.3/doc'
Making install in test
make[2]: Entering directory `/home/yinkster/vlc-1.0.3/test'
make[3]: Entering directory `/home/yinkster/vlc-1.0.3/test'
make[3]: Nothing to be done for `install-exec-am'.
make[3]: Nothing to be done for `install-data-am'.
make[3]: Leaving directory `/home/yinkster/vlc-1.0.3/test'
make[2]: Leaving directory `/home/yinkster/vlc-1.0.3/test'
make[2]: Entering directory `/home/yinkster/vlc-1.0.3'
make[3]: Entering directory `/home/yinkster/vlc-1.0.3'
test -z "/usr/local/bin" || /bin/mkdir -p "/usr/local/bin"
 /usr/bin/install -c cvlc rvlc qvlc '/usr/local/bin'
make[3]: Nothing to be done for `install-data-am'.
make[3]: Leaving directory `/home/yinkster/vlc-1.0.3'
make[2]: Leaving directory `/home/yinkster/vlc-1.0.3'
make[1]: Leaving directory `/home/yinkster/vlc-1.0.3'

Is this because I ran the apt-get both times whilst I was still inside the vlc folder, or does it not matter, or was that the correct thing to do? All help is appreciated.

By: Doctor_G

Doctor_G — Sat, 10 Oct 2009 13:58:00 +0000

Cagri:
It would seem that you did NOT have success in compiling the vlc libraries. They are probably supposed to be at /usr/lib/… as well as the vlc subdirectories. Were there any error messages while compiling?

On the other hand, libvlc.so.2 is a symbolic link to libvlc.so.2.0.2 … in my /usr/lib directory, although I’m in a Mandriva distro with version 0.9.3 Grishenko.

You might do a ls -all /usr/lib and see if it’s there.

By: Cagri

Cagri — Sun, 04 Oct 2009 23:05:50 +0000

Hi,

I think all the steps you described went well but when I want to run vlc, I get the following:

vlc: error while loading shared libraries: libvlc.so.2: cannot open shared object file: No such file or directory

Any help would be appreciated.

Thanks

By: sunil

sunil — Thu, 16 Jul 2009 04:46:37 +0000

i am geting problen while install vlc

#tar -xjf vlc-0.9.9.tar.bz2
#cd vlc-0.9.9
#./configure –disable-swscale

After typing make command.
Error is following…
#make
make: *** No targets specified and no makefile found. Stop.
#make install
bash: male: command not found

i m not able to install vlc plz,,, help me….

By: brandan

brandan — Mon, 06 Jul 2009 22:01:50 +0000

Hi all i have noticed a few of you are having trouble with lXext error while compiling vlc from source here is the fix for debian lenny to get you past this error and complete the make. install libxext-dev and it will complete hope this helps you out.

brandan

By: sarkozig

sarkozig — Tue, 09 Jun 2009 22:04:53 +0000

17wb: try this:
sudo make install

By: yxyc

yxyc — Mon, 01 Jun 2009 13:37:03 +0000

2 17wb: Resolved by:
sudo apt-get install x11proto-xext-dev

By: 17wb

17wb — Thu, 21 May 2009 16:39:59 +0000

Thank you for your post. I got some errors after ‘make’, could you help?

xcommon.h:355: error: expected specifier-qualifier-list before ‘XShmSegmentInfo’
make[6]: *** [libglx_plugin_la-glx.lo] Error 1
make[6]: Leaving directory `/home/user/vlc-0.9.9a/modules/video_output/x11′
make[5]: *** [check] Error 2
make[5]: Leaving directory `/home/user/vlc-0.9.9a/modules/video_output/x11′
make[4]: *** [check-recursive] Error 1
make[4]: Leaving directory `/home/user/vlc-0.9.9a/modules/video_output’
make[3]: *** [check] Error 2
make[3]: Leaving directory `/home/user/vlc-0.9.9a/modules/video_output’
make[2]: *** [check-recursive] Error 1
make[2]: Leaving directory `/home/user/vlc-0.9.9a/modules’
make[1]: *** [check-recursive] Error 1
make[1]: Leaving directory `/home/user/vlc-0.9.9a’
make: *** [check] Error 2

By: laudens

laudens — Fri, 01 May 2009 20:14:26 +0000

Try to give a [u]#make check[/u] after configured, so it will check for dependencies

By: Joe

Joe — Sun, 26 Apr 2009 18:50:12 +0000

Got the same error as Saptech already with “make”. Tried to “make install” anyway and got the same error again. Any suggetions?

By: dan

dan — Sat, 18 Apr 2009 06:14:07 +0000

Thx for the how-to; got problems with the second step (installing lib*-dev), apt-get complains dependencies not met (libqt4-dev relies on older versions of other libs than those I’m installing). I didn’t check further, maybe it’s because I’m prefering packages from “backport.org”… will check later.

By: Saptech

Saptech — Sat, 18 Apr 2009 02:24:00 +0000

I just tried this and everything seems to have been going good until the ‘make install’ part and then I get this error.

Any ideas what could be wrong?

x264.c: In function ‘Open’:
x264.c:962: error: ‘x264_param_t’ has no member named ‘b_pre_scenecut’
make[5]: *** [libx264_plugin_la-x264.lo] Error 1
make[5]: Leaving directory `/home/saptech/vlc-0.9.9/modules/codec’
make[4]: *** [install-recursive] Error 1
make[4]: Leaving directory `/home/saptech/vlc-0.9.9/modules/codec’
make[3]: *** [install] Error 2
make[3]: Leaving directory `/home/saptech/vlc-0.9.9/modules/codec’
make[2]: *** [install-recursive] Error 1
make[2]: Leaving directory `/home/saptech/vlc-0.9.9/modules’
make[1]: *** [install-recursive] Error 1
make[1]: Leaving directory `/home/saptech/vlc-0.9.9′
make: *** [install] Error 2