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Newer VLC in Debian Lenny

I'd like to install a newer version of VLC rather than the version which is shipped with Debain Lenny official repos (v 0.9.6). I tried with Lenny Backports but version remained with 0.9.6 (am I doing something wrong?).

There would be another way to get binaries (.deb or similars) or I might comiple VLC from source?

Thanks,
Matías

The newer...

There is this reference from vlc. The unstable version, Sid, might be what you want.

http://www.videolan.org/vlc/download-debian.html

You could create your own Backport using sources from Sid,here's a guide:

http://forums.debian.net/viewtopic.php?f=16&t=38976

Fellows, thanks for the tips.
I think I'll follow the Debian way, trying to build Vlc from Sid's sources. I think I'll have to use a Sid box as long as some dependencies seems to requiere newer versions than those shipped with Lenny.

Regards,
Matías

Quote:

Originally Posted by matiasar (Post 3751513)

I think you misunderstand.
You only need a source entry for Sid in /etc/apt/sources.list,you don't need to upgrade to Sid to build the backport.
You need an entry similar to this:

Code:

deb-src http://ftp.uk.debian.org/debian/ unstable main contrib non-free

The Trooper,

In my Lenny Box I added the sid's sources entry to sources.list, this way:

Code:

deb-src http://ftp.us.debian.org/debian/ sid main contrib non-free

Then, apt-get update, apt-get source vlc (like normal user)... But by the time of doing apt-get build-dep vlc

Code:

matuxdesk:/home/matias/misc/build_vlc/vlc-1.0.3# apt-get build-dep vlc

Leyendo lista de paquetes... Hecho

Creando árbol de dependencias

Leyendo la información de estado... Hecho

E: The dependency Build-Depends in vlc can't be satisfied because there is no version of liblivemedia-dev that satisfies the requirements.

matuxdesk:/home/matias/misc/build_vlc/vlc-1.0.3#

(I'm translating the error message from spanish).

Code:

matias@matuxdesk:~/misc/build_vlc/vlc-1.0.3$ dpkg-buildpackage -rfakeroot -us -uc

dpkg-buildpackage: set CFLAGS to default value: -g -O2

dpkg-buildpackage: set CPPFLAGS to default value:

dpkg-buildpackage: set LDFLAGS to default value:

dpkg-buildpackage: set FFLAGS to default value: -g -O2

dpkg-buildpackage: set CXXFLAGS to default value: -g -O2

dpkg-buildpackage: source package vlc

dpkg-buildpackage: source version 1.0.3-1

dpkg-buildpackage: source changed by Christophe Mutricy <xtophe@videolan.org>

dpkg-buildpackage: host architecture i386

dpkg-checkbuilddeps: Unmet build dependencies: dh-buildinfo quilt nasm iceape-dev (>= 1.1.9-4) liba52-0.7.4-dev libaa1-dev libasound2-dev (>= 0.9.0beta10a) libavcodec-dev (>= 0.cvs20060823) libavformat-dev (>= 0.cvs20060823) libcaca-dev (>= 0.99.beta4) libcdio-dev libdca-dev libdvbpsi5-dev | libdvbpsi-dev libdvdnav-dev libdvdread-dev (>= 0.9.5) libfaad-dev libflac-dev (>= 1.1.2-3) libfribidi-dev libggi2-dev libhal-dev (>= 0.5.5.1-3) libid3tag0-dev libjack-dev liblircclient-dev liblivemedia-dev (>= 2008.07.24) liblua5.1-0-dev libmad0-dev libmatroska-dev (>= 0.8.0) libmodplug-dev libmpcdec-dev libmpeg2-4-dev libncursesw5-dev libnotify-dev libogg-dev libpostproc-dev (>= 0.cvs20060823) libpulse-dev libqt4-dev libschroedinger-dev (>= 1.0.7-1~) libsdl-image1.2-dev libsdl1.2-dev (>= 1.2.7+1.2.8cvs20041007-5.3) libshout3-dev libsmbclient-dev libspeex-dev libsvga1-dev libswscale-dev libsysfs-dev libtag1-dev libtar-dev libtheora-dev libtwolame-dev (>= 0.3.8) libudev-dev libupnp3-dev libv4l-dev libvcdinfo-dev libvorbis-dev libxml2-dev libxt-dev libxv-dev

dpkg-buildpackage: warning: Build dependencies/conflicts unsatisfied; aborting.

dpkg-buildpackage: warning: (Use -d flag to override.)

Regards,
Matías

Have you tried installing liblivemedia-dev manually?.
It is available for Lenny:

http://packages.debian.org/lenny/liblivemedia-dev

Trooper,

Thanks for the tips. I installed the packages and I'm running apt-get build-dep vlc right now. I'll let you know the results later.

Regards,
Matías