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installing VLC on mandrake 10.2

i'm trying to install vlc because i've been having problems with totem recently so i downloaded the file vlc-0.8.2.tar.gz and i uncompress it and than i do ./configure and on the faqs it says to complie and install by doing

Code:

% make

% su

Password:  [Root Password]

# make install

but when i enter 'make' i get

Quote:

make: *** No targets specified and no makefile found. Stop.

what i dont understand is that inside the directory created from uncompressing there are two makefiles, Makefile.am and Makefile.in I dont understand what i'm doing wrong any suggestions:)

Do you need to run "./configure" first?

i alreadey ran './configure'

./configure probably errored out, due to missing dependencies which means the Makefiles were not created. I'd suggest finding rpm's for vlc and it's dependencies ( it has alot ), compiling it on Mandrake is gonna take awhile.

on the faq it says to use urpmi but i dont have it and when i go to easy urpmie when i get to the step where it tells you to type into the console

Code:

urpmi.addmedia plf-free ftp://ftp.planetmirror.com/pub/plf/mandrake/free/10.2 with hdlist.cz

i just get bash error command not found