So up until now i've been using Ubuntu, which has a great dependency system, it does it for me. Now i'm working on installing mediatomb which requires several things it doesn't detect. These would be sqlite 3, ffmpeg, and libjs. The funny thing is i'm certain i already have ffmpeg installed (i can run it). Same with sqlite 3. Now i assume i have to point the configure file from the source folder to where my sqlite 3 and ffmpeg files are located, but i don't know how. I tried to use --with-ffmpeg-libs= and direct it to /usr/bin/ffmpeg but that didn't work. Also, what is libjs? How do i get it? Also, for finding slackware packages i've only been able to find a couple repositories (slackbuilds.org and linuxpackages) and i was wondering if there was somewhere where literally everything is findable (a universal repository). Thanks for any help.

Hi mister2 and welcome to Slackware !

I tried building mediatomb and I found the same results as you with one exception - you have missed mozilla's javascript libraries which are here in SlackBuild form (this is the libjs).
I couldn't get the configure to work with the standard sqlite version - however as mysql is the alternative and Slackware ships with this I settled for this.
Next problem was where the configure was looking for certain ffmpeg headers. The quick (and dirty) fix to this is to create a link called /usr/include/ffmpeg to the /usr/include/libavformat directory like this:
After this the configure will succeed but then the compilation fails (running make) with this error :
This is possibly to do with the version of curl. I gave up then ! Maybe someone else can help with this.

I got it compiled, but I couldn't figure out how to get it to detect sqlite, which is a pity because using mysql seems to be overkill. Anyway, to find the js stuff, add this after ./configure

--with-js-libs=/usr/lib64/seamonkey --with-js-h=/usr/include/seamonkey/js

This is assuming you are using Slackware64. If you aren't, just change remove the "64". If anyone knows why you can't get it to detect the version of sqlite3 that comes with Slackware 13, I'd be interested. Here's what was in my config.log:

configure:21868: checking for sqlite3.h
configure:21875: result: yes
configure:22170: checking for sqlite3_open in -lsqlite3
configure:22205: g++ -o conftest -g -O2 -I/usr/include -L/usr/lib64 -lrt conftest.cpp -lsqlite3 >&5
/usr/lib64/libsqlite3.so: undefined reference to `dlsym'
/usr/lib64/libsqlite3.so: undefined reference to `dlerror'
/usr/lib64/libsqlite3.so: undefined reference to `dlopen'
/usr/lib64/libsqlite3.so: undefined reference to `dlclose'

If it's the same problem as this one the only solution is to recompile sqlite3.

In order to use the Slackware sqlite with mediatomb just add this to configure.

Awesome! That did the trick.

For newer ffmpeg try this patch.
http://sources.gentoo.org/viewcvs.py....patch?rev=1.1
For newer libcurl try this patch.
http://sources.gentoo.org/viewcvs.py....patch?rev=1.1
You'll probably have to run autoreconf after applying the ffmpeg patch so configure will be able to find ffmpeg.

You should only need libjs if you want m3u/playlist support. It's not used for anything else (according to my research when I first installed it)

If you manage to get it installed, you will need to create an empty data base. Read the top hashed section of /etc/rc.d/rc.mysqld on how to set up MySQL. Additionally, if you want to run it on start up from an rc script, I would create a mediatomb user and group.

To create the database, log into your mysql server as root (not your computer
root, the mysql server root account)
shell> mysql -u root -p

create the database
mysql> CREATE DATABASE mediatomb;

create the mysql user mediatomb, give them permission to mediatomb database,
and give them the password mediatomb (please be more inventive for security).
mysql> GRANT ALL ON mediatomb.*
TO 'mediatomb'@'localhost'
IDENTIFIED BY 'mediatomb';

Other notes! the web interface is insecure. It allows anybody to view the names of all files on your system assuming the user running the daemon has read access to that directory. Change <ui enabled="yes"> to <ui enabled="no"> inside the settings file to avoid this.