I am running Mandrake Linux 10.0 version
I have downloaded the following:

totem-0.101.tar.gz

Then I logged on as a root user and decompress the tarball

Some of the details are as followed:

root@c83-250-88-143 ka]# tar -xvzf totem-0.101.tar.gz
totem-0.101/
totem-0.101/Makefile.in
totem-0.101/READMEroot@c83-250-88-143 ka]# tar -xvzf totem-0.101.tar.gz
totem-0.101/
totem-0.101/Makefile.in
totem-0.101/README
totem-0.101/stamp-h.in
totem-0.101/AUTHORS
totem-0.101/COPYING
totem-0.101/COPYING.LIB
totem-0.101/ChangeLog
totem-0.101/INSTALL
totem-0.101/Makefile.am
totem-0.101/NEWS
totem-0.101/TODO
totem-0.101/aclocal.m4
totem-0.101/config.guess
totem-0.101/config.h.in
totem-0.101/config.sub
totem-0.101/configure
totem-0.101/configure.in
totem-0.101/install-sh
totem-0.101/ltmain.sh
totem-0.101/missing
totem-0.101/mkinstalldirs
totem-0.101/totem-plparser.pc.in
totem-0.101/totem.spec.in
totem-0.101/autogen.sh
totem-0.101/intltool-extract.in
totem-0.101/intltool-merge.in
totem-0.101/intltool-update.in
totem-0.101/totem.spec
totem-0.101/omf.make
totem-0.101/xmldocs.make
totem-0.101/po/
totem-0.101/po/ChangeLog
totem-0.101/po/Makefile.in.in
totem-0.101/po/POTFILES.in
totem-0.101/po/totem.pot
totem-0.101/po/am.po
totem-0.101/po/ar.po
totem-0.101/po/az.po
totem-0.101/po/be.po
totem-0.101/po/bg.po
totem-0.101/po/bn.po
totem-0.101/po/ca.po
totem-0.101/po/cs.po
totem-0.101/po/cy.po
totem-0.101/po/da.po
totem-0.101/po/de.po
totem-0.101/po/el.po
totem-0.101/po/en_CA.po
totem-0.101/po/en_GB.po
totem-0.101/po/es.po

totem-0.101/stamp-h.in
totem-0.101/AUTHORS
totem-0.101/COPYING
totem-0.101/COPYING.LIB
totem-0.101/ChangeLog
totem-0.101/INSTALL
totem-0.101/Makefile.am
totem-0.101/NEWS
totem-0.101/TODO
totem-0.101/aclocal.m4
totem-0.101/config.guess
totem-0.101/config.h.in
totem-0.101/config.sub
totem-0.101/configure
totem-0.101/configure.in
totem-0.101/install-sh
totem-0.101/ltmain.sh
totem-0.101/missing
totem-0.101/mkinstalldirs
totem-0.101/totem-plparser.pc.in
totem-0.101/totem.spec.in
totem-0.101/autogen.sh
totem-0.101/intltool-extract.in
totem-0.101/intltool-merge.in
totem-0.101/intltool-update.in
totem-0.101/totem.spec
totem-0.101/omf.make
totem-0.101/xmldocs.make
totem-0.101/po/
totem-0.101/po/ChangeLog
totem-0.101/po/Makefile.in.in
totem-0.101/po/POTFILES.in
totem-0.101/po/totem.pot
totem-0.101/po/am.po
totem-0.101/po/ar.po
totem-0.101/po/az.po
totem-0.101/po/be.po
totem-0.101/po/bg.po
totem-0.101/po/bn.po
totem-0.101/po/ca.po
totem-0.101/po/cs.po
totem-0.101/po/cy.po
totem-0.101/po/da.po
totem-0.101/po/de.po
totem-0.101/po/el.po
totem-0.101/po/en_CA.po
totem-0.101/po/en_GB.po
totem-0.101/po/es.po




Afterwards, I ran the ./configure command successfully. Please read the following:

[root@c83-250-88-143 ka]# cd totem-0.101/
[root@c83-250-88-143 totem-0.101]# ./configure
checking for a BSD-compatible install... /usr/bin/install -c
checking whether build environment is sane... yes
checking whether make sets $(MAKE)... yes
checking for working aclocal-1.4... found
checking for working autoconf... found
checking for working automake-1.4... found
checking for working autoheader... found
checking for working makeinfo... found
checking for g++... g++
checking for C++ compiler default output file name... a.out
checking whether the C++ compiler works... yes
checking whether we are cross compiling... no
checking for suffix of executables...
checking for suffix of object files... o
checking whether we are using the GNU C++ compiler... yes
checking whether g++ accepts -g... yes
checking build system type... i686-redhat-linux-gnu
checking host system type... i686-redhat-linux-gnu
checking for gcc... gcc
checking whether we are using the GNU C compiler... yes
checking whether gcc accepts -g... yes
checking for gcc option to accept ANSI C... none needed
checking for a sed that does not truncate output... /bin/sed
checking for egrep... grep -E
checking for ld used by gcc... /usr/bin/ld
checking if the linker (/usr/bin/ld) is GNU ld... yes
checking for /usr/bin/ld option to reload object files... -r
checking for BSD-compatible nm... /usr/bin/nm -B
checking whether ln -s works... yes
checking how to recognise dependent libraries... pass_all
checking how to run the C preprocessor... gcc -E
checking for ANSI C header files... yes
checking for sys/types.h... yes
checking for sys/stat.h... yes
checking for stdlib.h... yes
checking for string.h... yes
checking for memory.h... yes
checking for strings.h... yes
checking for inttypes.h... yes
checking for stdint.h... yes
checking for unistd.h... yes
checking dlfcn.h usability... yes
checking dlfcn.h presence... yes
checking for dlfcn.h... yes
checking how to run the C++ preprocessor... g++ -E
checking for g77... no
checking for f77... no
checking for xlf... no
checking for frt... no
checking for pgf77... no
checking for fort77... no
checking for fl32... no
checking for af77... no
checking for f90... no
checking for xlf90... no
checking for pgf90... no
checking for epcf90... no
checking for f95... no
checking for fort... no
checking for xlf95... no
checking for ifc... no
checking for efc... no
checking for pgf95... no
checking for lf95... no
checking for gfortran... no
checking whether we are using the GNU Fortran 77 compiler... no
checking whether accepts -g... no
checking the maximum length of command line arguments... 32768
checking command to parse /usr/bin/nm -B output from gcc object... ok
checking for objdir... .libs
checking for ar... ar
checking for ranlib... ranlib
checking for strip... strip
checking if gcc static flag works... yes
checking if gcc supports -fno-rtti -fno-exceptions... no
checking for gcc option to produce PIC... -fPIC
checking if gcc PIC flag -fPIC works... yes
checking if gcc supports -c -o file.o... yes
checking whether the gcc linker (/usr/bin/ld) supports shared libraries... yes
checking whether -lc should be explicitly linked in... no
checking dynamic linker characteristics... GNU/Linux ld.so
checking how to hardcode library paths into programs... immediate
checking whether stripping libraries is possible... yes
checking if libtool supports shared libraries... yes
checking whether to build shared libraries... yes
checking whether to build static libraries... yes
configure: creating libtool
appending configuration tag "CXX" to libtool
checking for ld used by g++... /usr/bin/ld
checking if the linker (/usr/bin/ld) is GNU ld... yes
checking whether the g++ linker (/usr/bin/ld) supports shared libraries... yes
checking for g++ option to produce PIC... -fPIC
checking if g++ PIC flag -fPIC works... yes
checking if g++ supports -c -o file.o... yes
checking whether the g++ linker (/usr/bin/ld) supports shared libraries... yes
checking dynamic linker characteristics... GNU/Linux ld.so
checking how to hardcode library paths into programs... immediate
checking whether stripping libraries is possible... yes
appending configuration tag "F77" to libtool
checking for intltool >= 0.20... 0.31.2 found
checking for perl... /usr/bin/perl
checking for XML::Parser... ok
checking for pkg-config... /usr/bin/pkg-config
checking for nvtvsimple >= 0.4.5... Package nvtvsimple was not found in the pkg-config search path.
Perhaps you should add the directory containing `nvtvsimple.pc'
to the PKG_CONFIG_PATH environment variable
No package 'nvtvsimple' found
checking for backend libraries... checking for gstreamer-0.8 >= 0.8.6.1 gstreamer-gconf-0.8 >= 0.8.4.1 gstreamer-interfaces-0.8 >= 0.8.4.1... Package gstreamer-0.8 was not found in the pkg-config search path.
Perhaps you should add the directory containing `gstreamer-0.8.pc'
to the PKG_CONFIG_PATH environment variable
No package 'gstreamer-0.8' found
configure: error: you need the GStreamer or the xine-lib development packages installed





The 'make' command and the 'make install' commands didn't work. This means I can't install the program. If you read the following, you will notice the make command and the make install commands didn't work.


[root@c83-250-88-143 totem-0.101]# make
make: *** No targets specified and no makefile found. Stop.
[root@c83-250-88-143 totem-0.101]# make install
make: *** No rule to make target `install'. Stop.


Your help is profoundly appreciated.

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You need to install gstreamer and the gstreamer-devel package using urpmi/rpmdrake.

Newer versions of totem need a package called gstreamer. This program is used by totem as its media playing backend. You can probably find it in you distro's package database, or you can compile from source from http://gstreamer.freedesktop.org/. And make sure you get the plugins package too--it has practically any codec you'll need. BTW, you also need Gnome 2.10 to install totem 0.101, but I've gotten 0.100 working decently with gnome 2.8

Good luck

Hi,
Why didn't you try URPMI, it takes care of all the dependencies !
If you haven't, set it up by going to easyurpmi.zarb.org : everything
is explained, then you won't have any dependencies hell like this
one any longer. Why installing with tarballs whereas this method
saves you all the hassle ?

Hope that helps

Cheers

I downloaded the 'gstream' and decompressed; it worked fine.

Even the ./configure command worked beautifully.
However, the make commands didn't work


[root@c83-250-88-143 gstreamer-0.8.9]# ./configure
checking build system type... i686-redhat-linux-gnu
checking host system type... i686-redhat-linux-gnu
checking target system type... i686-redhat-linux-gnu
configure: configuring gstreamer for release
checking whether to enable maintainer-specific portions of Makefiles... no
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)... yes
checking for gcc... gcc
checking for C compiler default output file name... a.out
checking whether the C compiler works... yes
checking whether we are cross compiling... no
checking for suffix of executables...
checking for suffix of object files... o
checking whether we are using the GNU C compiler... yes
checking whether gcc accepts -g... yes
checking for gcc option to accept ANSI C... none needed
checking for style of include used by make... GNU
checking dependency style of gcc... gcc3
checking for library containing strerror... none required
checking for a sed that does not truncate output... /bin/sed
checking for egrep... grep -E
checking for ld used by gcc... /usr/bin/ld
checking if the linker (/usr/bin/ld) is GNU ld... yes
checking for /usr/bin/ld option to reload object files... -r
checking for BSD-compatible nm... /usr/bin/nm -B
checking whether ln -s works... yes
checking how to recognise dependent libraries... pass_all
checking how to run the C preprocessor... gcc -E
checking for ANSI C header files... yes
checking for sys/types.h... yes
checking for sys/stat.h... yes
checking for stdlib.h... yes
checking for string.h... yes
checking for memory.h... yes
checking for strings.h... yes
checking for inttypes.h... yes
checking for stdint.h... yes
checking for unistd.h... yes
checking dlfcn.h usability... yes
checking dlfcn.h presence... yes
checking for dlfcn.h... yes
checking for g++... g++
checking whether we are using the GNU C++ compiler... yes
checking whether g++ accepts -g... yes
checking dependency style of g++... gcc3
checking how to run the C++ preprocessor... g++ -E
checking for g77... no
checking for f77... no
checking for xlf... no
checking for frt... no
checking for pgf77... no
checking for fort77... no
checking for fl32... no
checking for af77... no
checking for f90... no
checking for xlf90... no
checking for pgf90... no
checking for epcf90... no
checking for f95... no
checking for fort... no
checking for xlf95... no
checking for ifc... no
checking for efc... no
checking for pgf95... no
checking for lf95... no
checking for gfortran... no
checking whether we are using the GNU Fortran 77 compiler... no
checking whether accepts -g... no
checking the maximum length of command line arguments... 32768
checking command to parse /usr/bin/nm -B output from gcc object... ok
checking for objdir... .libs
checking for ar... ar
checking for ranlib... ranlib
checking for strip... strip
checking if gcc static flag works... yes
checking if gcc supports -fno-rtti -fno-exceptions... no
checking for gcc option to produce PIC... -fPIC
checking if gcc PIC flag -fPIC works... yes
checking if gcc supports -c -o file.o... yes
checking whether the gcc linker (/usr/bin/ld) supports shared libraries... yes
checking whether -lc should be explicitly linked in... no
checking dynamic linker characteristics... GNU/Linux ld.so
checking how to hardcode library paths into programs... immediate
checking whether stripping libraries is possible... yes
checking for shl_load... no
checking for shl_load in -ldld... no
checking for dlopen... no
checking for dlopen in -ldl... yes
checking whether a program can dlopen itself... yes
checking whether a statically linked program can dlopen itself... yes
checking if libtool supports shared libraries... yes
checking whether to build shared libraries... yes
checking whether to build static libraries... yes
configure: creating libtool
appending configuration tag "CXX" to libtool
checking for ld used by g++... /usr/bin/ld
checking if the linker (/usr/bin/ld) is GNU ld... yes
checking whether the g++ linker (/usr/bin/ld) supports shared libraries... yes
checking for g++ option to produce PIC... -fPIC
checking if g++ PIC flag -fPIC works... yes
checking if g++ supports -c -o file.o... yes
checking whether the g++ linker (/usr/bin/ld) supports shared libraries... yes
checking dynamic linker characteristics... GNU/Linux ld.so
checking how to hardcode library paths into programs... immediate
checking whether stripping libraries is possible... yes
checking for shl_load... (cached) no
checking for shl_load in -ldld... (cached) no
checking for dlopen... (cached) no
checking for dlopen in -ldl... (cached) yes
checking whether a program can dlopen itself... (cached) yes
checking whether a statically linked program can dlopen itself... (cached) yes
appending configuration tag "F77" to libtool
checking for gcc... (cached) gcc
checking whether we are using the GNU C compiler... (cached) yes
checking whether gcc accepts -g... (cached) yes
checking for gcc option to accept ANSI C... (cached) none needed
checking dependency style of gcc... (cached) gcc3
checking for msgfmt... /usr/bin/msgfmt
checking for gmsgfmt... /usr/bin/msgfmt
checking for xgettext... /usr/bin/xgettext
checking for msgmerge... /usr/bin/msgmerge
checking for ld used by GCC... /usr/bin/ld
checking if the linker (/usr/bin/ld) is GNU ld... yes
checking for shared library run path origin... done
checking whether NLS is requested... yes
checking for GNU gettext in libc... yes
checking to see if compiler understands -Wall... yes
checking for ANSI C header files... (cached) yes
checking for inline... inline
checking for gtkdoc-scangobj... false
checking for docbook2ps... true
checking for docbook2html... true
checking for jadetex... true
checking for ps2pdf... true
checking docbook2html version (DocBook-utils version 0.6.14 (jw version 1.1)) >= 0.6.10... yes
checking for xsltproc... no
checking for dvips... true
checking for fig2dev... false
configure: WARNING: Did not find fig2dev (from xfig), images will not be generated.
checking for pngtopnm... true
checking for pnmtops... true
checking for epstopdf... true
configure: Will not output HTML documentation
configure: Will not output PS documentation
configure: Will not output PDF documentation
configure: Looking for Python version >= 2.1
checking for python... /usr/bin/python
checking "/usr/bin/python":... okay
checking local Python configuration... looks good
checking whether byte ordering is bigendian... no
checking for perl... /usr/bin/perl
checking for gawk... (cached) gawk
checking for bison... /usr/bin/bison
checking bison version... ok
checking for flex... /usr/bin/flex
checking for large file support... yes
checking for stdlib.h... (cached) yes
checking for unistd.h... (cached) yes
checking for getpagesize... yes
checking for working mmap... yes
checking for usable SVR4/SUSv2 makecontext(2)/swapcontext(2)... yes
checking whether gcc implements __PRETTY_FUNCTION__... yes
checking whether gcc implements __FUNCTION__... yes
checking whether gcc implements __func__... yes
checking to see if compiler understands -fno-common... yes
checking if unaligned memory access works correctly... (whitelisted) yes
checking for pkg-config... /usr/bin/pkg-config
checking for glib-2.0 >= 2.2 gobject-2.0 2.0 gmodule-2.0... yes
checking GLIB2_CFLAGS... -pthread -I/usr/include/glib-2.0 -I/usr/lib/glib-2.0/include
checking GLIB2_LIBS... -pthread -Wl,--export-dynamic -lgobject-2.0 -lgthread-2.0 -lgmodule-2.0 -ldl -lglib-2.0
checking for glib-2.0 >= 2.2... yes
checking GLIB_ONLY_CFLAGS... -I/usr/include/glib-2.0 -I/usr/lib/glib-2.0/include
checking GLIB_ONLY_LIBS... -lglib-2.0
checking for libxml-2.0 >= 2.4.9... yes
checking XML_CFLAGS... -I/usr/include/libxml2
checking XML_LIBS... -lxml2 -lpthread -lz -lm
configure: Test xml2 program linked
checking for poptStrippedArgv in -lpopt... no
configure: error: popt 1.6.3 or newer is required to build gstreamer. You can
download the latest version from
ftp://ftp.rpm.org/pub/rpm/dist/
[root@c83-250-88-143 gstreamer-0.8.9]# make
make: *** No targets specified and no makefile found. Stop.
[root@c83-250-88-143 gstreamer-0.8.9]#



[root@c83-250-88-143 gstreamer-0.8.9]# make install
make: *** No rule to make target `install'. Stop.
[root@c83-250-88-143 gstreamer-0.8.9]#


What is the problem?

Configure didn't work fine. There was yet another missing package from your system. Look closely at your output, and you'll notice this:

Download and install the popt package. You probably should get it from rpmdrake, or whatever it's called (I don't use Mandrake, so I'm not sure) to save you the trouble.

I downloaded the 'popt' . It was a RPM file. I installed it successfully
popt-1.8-1.i386.rpm

I can't use either the 'make or make install' command.
What is the problem?



[root@c83-250-88-143 gstreamer-0.8.9]# make
make: *** No targets specified and no makefile found. Stop.
[root@c83-250-88-143 gstreamer-0.8.9]# make install
make: *** No rule to make target `install'. Stop

Why are you dowloading dependencies instead of installing them with urpmi? urpmi make package managment on Mandrake easier so you don't have to do a lot of compiling. Take a look at zebulon.org.uk for information about urpmi and easyurpmi for instructions on how to set it up. To install totem, you would just do as root
Totem will then be installed including all its dependecies.

That is exactly what I suggested above, but our friend here seems to enjoy problems.
He hasn't even tried this solution...

I logged on as a root user and tried again.
It didn't work. Please read the following:


[root@c83-250-88-143 ka]# urpmi totem-0.101.tar.gz
unable to take medium "Updates for Mandrakelinux 10.0 (ftp1u)" into account as n o list file [/var/lib/urpmi/list.Updates for Mandrakelinux 10.0 (ftp1u)] exists
no package named totem-0.101.tar.gz
[root@c83-250-88-143 ka]#

What is the problem?

I went to the 'Easy urpmi' site did the following as suggested by them. It is strange.


[root@c83-250-88-143 ka]# urpmi.addmedia contrib ftp://anorien.csc.warwick.ac.uk/Mand.../media/contrib with media_info/synthesis.hdlist.cz
unable to take medium "Updates for Mandrakelinux 10.0 (ftp1u)" into account as no list file [/var/lib/urpmi/list.Updates for Mandrakelinux 10.0 (ftp1u)] exists
added medium contrib
examining synthesis file [/var/lib/urpmi/synthesis.hdlist.Installation CD 1 (x86) (cdrom1).cz]
examining synthesis file [/var/lib/urpmi/synthesis.hdlist.Installation CD 2 (x86) (cdrom2).cz]
examining synthesis file [/var/lib/urpmi/synthesis.hdlist.Installation CD 3 (x86) (cdrom3).cz]
retrieving source hdlist (or synthesis) of "contrib"...
ftp://anorien.csc.warwick.ac.uk/Mand...esis.hdlist.cz
...retrieving failed: curl: (7) Connect failed
ftp://anorien.csc.warwick.ac.uk/Mand...esis.hdlist.cz
...retrieving failed: curl: (7) Connect failed
ftp://anorien.csc.warwick.ac.uk/Mand...esis.hdlist.cz
...retrieving failed: curl: (9) Couldn't cd to base
ftp://anorien.csc.warwick.ac.uk/Mand...esis.hdlist.cz
...retrieving failed: curl: (7) Given file does not exist
ftp://anorien.csc.warwick.ac.uk/Mand...sis.hdlist1.cz
...retrieving failed: curl: (9) Couldn't cd to base
ftp://anorien.csc.warwick.ac.uk/Mand...sis.hdlist2.cz
...retrieving failed: curl: (9) Couldn't cd to base


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I tried again. The following is the result. What is the meaning of it?

[root@c83-250-88-143 ka]# urpmi.addmedia contrib ftp://anorien.csc.warwick.ac.uk/Mand.../media/contrib with media_info/hdlist.cz
unable to take medium "Updates for Mandrakelinux 10.0 (ftp1u)" into account as no list file [/var/lib/urpmi/list.Updates for Mandrakelinux 10.0 (ftp1u)] exists
added medium contrib
urpmi database locked
[root@c83-250-88-143 ka]#

Do "urpmi.removemedia -a" and then redo the setup process for urpmi using the French or German mirrors, I find that they are more reliable than the rest in Europe.

Reddazz

Have I removed properly? It says the urpmi database is locked. Please tell me what fo do.

[root@c83-250-88-143 ka]# urpmi.removemedia -a
unable to take medium "Updates for Mandrakelinux 10.0 (ftp1u)" into account as no list file [/var/lib/urpmi/list.Updates for Mandrakelinux 10.0 (ftp1u)] exists
removing medium "Installation CD 1 (x86) (cdrom1)"
removing medium "Installation CD 2 (x86) (cdrom2)"
removing medium "Installation CD 3 (x86) (cdrom3)"
removing medium "Installation CD 4 (x86) (cdrom4)"
urpmi database locked
[root@c83-250-88-143 ka]#

Try doing "rpm --rebuilddb" as root and thenrun the urpmi setup process. It seems you have a repository that was misconfigured and can't be removed.

reddazz

I did what you suggested. Is it fine?
Shall I go ahead with the 'urpmi' process now?

[root@c83-250-88-143 ka]# rpm --rebuilddb
[root@c83-250-88-143 ka]#