hi John VV,
im looking at the links that you provided. i followed the instructions to check the package name using this:
# rpm -qpil --changelog --scripts packagename.rpm | less
i realised the rpm was built for openSuse while im using Suse Linux 11 Enterprise Server. does it matter?
here is the full log report:
Code:
Name : xvidcap Relocations: (not relocatable)
Version : 1.1.7 Vendor: http://packman.links2linux.de
Release : 5.2 Build Date: Fri May 13 22:40:48 2011
Install Date: (not installed) Build Host: nott
Group : Productivity/Graphics/Viewers Source RPM: xvidcap-1.1.7-5.2.src.rpm
Size : 7980845 License: GPL
Signature : RSA/SHA1, Sat May 14 07:01:53 2011, Key ID 45a1d0671abd1afb
Packager : packman@links2linux.de
URL : http://xvidcap.sourceforge.net/
Summary : A small tool to capture things going on on an X-Windows display
Description :
Xvidcap is a tool that can capture movement on an X11 display. It works in two distinct modes:
It can capture to single frames (like a number of jpeg images) or it can encode the captured frames to a video on-line.
It is intended to be a standards-based alternative to tools like Lotus ScreenCam for UNIX platforms.
On-line encoding is done through FFMPEG and also allows for audio grabbing on OSS compatible systems.
Author: Karl H. Beckers
Distribution: Multimedia / openSUSE_11.2
* Mon Nov 23 2009 Detlef Reichelt <detlef@links2linux.de> 0.1.7-2
- set asneeded=0 for 11.2
* Fri Oct 03 2008 Detlef Reichelt <detlef@links2linux.de> <0.1.7>-<0.pm.2>
- fix mandir
* Mon Jul 14 2008 Detlef Reichelt <detlef@links2linux.de> <0.1.7>-<0.pm.1>
- new upstream version <1.1.7>
* Mon Feb 18 2008 Detlef Reichelt <detlef@links2linux.de> <0.1.7rc1>-<0.pm.1>
- new upstream version <1.1.7rc1>
* Sun Nov 18 2007 Detlef Reichelt <detlef@links2linux.de> <0.1.6>
- new upstream release <1.1.6>
* Mon Oct 02 2006 Detlef Reichelt <detlef@links2linux.de> <0.1.4rc1>
- first build for packman
/usr/bin/xvidcap
/usr/share/applications/xvidcap.desktop
/usr/share/dbus-1
/usr/share/dbus-1/services
/usr/share/dbus-1/services/net.jarre_de_the.Xvidcap.service
/usr/share/doc/packages/xvidcap
/usr/share/doc/packages/xvidcap/AUTHORS
/usr/share/doc/packages/xvidcap/COPYING
/usr/share/doc/packages/xvidcap/ChangeLog
/usr/share/doc/packages/xvidcap/README
/usr/share/gnome
/usr/share/gnome/help
/usr/share/gnome/help/xvidcap
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/usr/share/gnome/help/xvidcap/C/figures/edit-button.png
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/usr/share/gnome/help/xvidcap/C/figures/frame-drop-meter.png
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