GTK devel packages on Debian?

dr_zayus69 · 05-06-2006, 07:30 AM

Hi. im trying to install mplayer with the gui and it is saying i need the GTK devel packages. I know this means i need the package like gtk-devel or gtk2-devel. I've installed mplayera few times before with the gui installed, but i am new to debian. I searched in sypatic for gtk for devel packages but didn't see any. What is the exact package name i have to install to do apt-get install? I know it can be a little picky because i tried apt-get install firefox and learned later on it didn't work cuz i had to do apt-get install mozilla-firefox. thanks for any replies in advance.

cux · 05-06-2006, 10:47 AM

Do an:

apt-get install gnome-devel

and you'll be fine.

I recommend this how to (to get MPlayer successfully compiled in Debian):

http://www.princessleia.com/MPlayer.php

Hope it helps!!

nx5000 · 05-09-2006, 03:46 AM

Do you have any benefit of compiling it yourself?
Why don't you take a pre-made binary? It works great with optimizations and gui.

cux · 05-10-2006, 11:32 AM

Well, actually the easy way to do it is getting a MPlayer deb package and install it, this way you'll asure a succesfull installation. But, if you compile the software it will be faster and very optimized for your platform.

So, i guess you can compile it if you don't have a very fast machine, that way you can get a "extra" better performance. If you have a fast machine, the best and easy way is to get it in a package.

dr_zayus69 · 05-13-2006, 04:01 AM

hi. thanks for the replies. I tried apt-get install gnome-devel but still says i need gtk. I didn't see a .deb package for mplayer on their site that is why i didn't get a binary. Also gtk isn't some obscure libary that only mplayer would need but other programs as well so i may as well address it now as opposed to when i try to compile another program that needs it.

nx5000 · 05-15-2006, 02:54 AM

Put this in your /etc/apt/sources.list

Code:

# Stable:
deb ftp://ftp.nerim.net/debian-marillat/ sarge main
# Testing:
deb ftp://ftp.nerim.net/debian-marillat/ etch main
# Unstable:
deb ftp://ftp.nerim.net/debian-marillat/ sid main
deb-src ftp://ftp.nerim.net/debian-marillat/ sid main

then as usual, apt-get update, apt-get install mplayer.

to be precise, these are available:

mplayer-586 1:1.0-pre7cvs20060219-0.1
mplayer-nogui 1:1.0-pre7cvs20060430-0.0
mplayer-nogui 1:1.0-pre7cvs20060325-0.3
mplayer-nogui 1:1.0-pre7cvs20060219-0.2sarge1
mplayer-k6 1:1.0-pre7cvs20060219-0.2sarge1
mplayer-586 1:1.0-pre7cvs20060219-0.2sarge1
mplayer-386 1:1.0-pre7cvs20060219-0.2sarge1

mplayer binaries has builtin runtime cpu detection so it is already optimized for a lot of architectures/cpus. (At the beginning it detects on which architecture it is being run and executes different code with optimizations. So the detection part can be skipped but I'm not sure it's really faster for watching anything.)

Also I bet mplayer is quite hard to compile. It can be intersting to recompile if it lacks support for this or that codec but I'm sure you will always find a prebuilt binary.

And if you need gtk-devel, just apt-get install libgtk2.0-devel for gtk2
Gnome-devel pulls something like 100 dev packages (X11,sound,..)

dr_zayus69 · 05-16-2006, 10:27 AM

when i do apt-get install libgtk2.0-dev it says it is already the lastest version (apt-get install libgtk2.0-devel says it couldn't find the package) I think my problem is mplayer either wants an older version of gtk or can't find the development packages on my system because maybe debian puts them in a non standard place. So i think if i can figure out which path they are in i just need to configure with the --with-gtk-config=PATH option. thanks for your help so far.

nx5000 · 05-16-2006, 12:01 PM

Yes, that would be the correct option, something with gtk(2?) inside, I don't have mplayer source here so I'm not sure..

Debian always put file in their standard place :-) Its one of the first criteria why I use this distro.

One of these two commands will show you the files contained in this package, the first doesn't even need libgtk2.0-dev to be installed

Code:

apt-file list libgtk2.0-dev
dpkg -L libgtk2.0-dev

This will even show you what should be on the gcc line. This is the portable way of finding which options have to be used. This is how makefile and configures should be done, using pkg-config.

Code:

debian:~# pkg-config --libs gtk+-x11-2.0
-lgtk-x11-2.0 -lgdk-x11-2.0 -latk-1.0 -lgdk_pixbuf-2.0 -lm -lpangocairo-1.0 -lfontconfig -lXext -lXrender -lXinerama -lXi -lXrandr -lXcursor -lXfixes -lpango-1.0 -lcairo -lX11 -lgobject-2.0 -lgmodule-2.0 -ldl -lglib-2.0