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Old 11-29-2005, 07:13 PM   #1
mmarkvillanueva
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Question libpng and libpng-devel missing in mplayer configure


libpng and libpng-devel missing in mplayer configure


after downloading MPlayer-1.0pre7try2.tar.bz2 i've extracted it and run
configure using ./configure --enable-gui

an error was display which says:
Code:
Error: PNG support required for GUI compilation, please install libpng 
and libpng-dev packages.

i have run locate libpng and here's the result:
Code:
/var/log/packages/libpng-1.2.5-i486-2
/var/log/scripts/libpng-1.2.5-i486-2
/usr/bin/libpng12-config
/usr/bin/libpng-config
/usr/doc/libpng-1.2.5
/usr/doc/libpng-1.2.5/TODO
/usr/doc/libpng-1.2.5/example.c
/usr/doc/libpng-1.2.5/LICENSE
/usr/doc/libpng-1.2.5/README
/usr/doc/libpng-1.2.5/libpng.txt
/usr/doc/libpng-1.2.5/KNOWNBUG
/usr/doc/libpng-1.2.5/ANNOUNCE
/usr/doc/libpng-1.2.5/Y2KINFO
/usr/doc/libpng-1.2.5/INSTALL
/usr/doc/libpng-1.2.5/CHANGES
/usr/lib/libpng12.so.0.1.2.5
/usr/lib/libpng.so
/usr/lib/pkgconfig/libpng.pc
/usr/lib/pkgconfig/libpng12.pc
/usr/lib/gthumb/modules/libpngexporter.la
/usr/lib/gthumb/modules/libpngexporter.so
/usr/lib/libpng12.a
/usr/lib/libpng12.so
/usr/lib/libpng.so.3
/usr/lib/libpng12.so.0
/usr/lib/libpng.a
/usr/lib/libpng.so.3.1.2.5
/usr/man/man3/libpngpf.3.gz
/usr/man/man3/libpng.3.gz
/usr/include/libpng
/usr/include/libpng12
/usr/include/libpng12/pngconf.h
/usr/include/libpng12/png.h
but libpng-devel is not present in my system.
do i really need to install libpng-devel. how do i fix this problem?
btw, i'm using slackware 10
 
Old 11-29-2005, 10:14 PM   #2
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Re: libpng and libpng-devel missing in mplayer configure

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Originally posted by mmarkvillanueva

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Error: PNG support required for GUI compilation, please install libpng
and libpng-dev packages.
make sure /usr/lib is in your $PATH............
 
Old 11-29-2005, 10:40 PM   #3
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i've already had /usr/lib in my $PATH and $LD_LIBRARY_PATH as well
anyone knows how to fix this.
 
  


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