[SOLVED] thunar-thumbnailers won't compile correctly.

I am trying to compile thunar-thumbnailers, my intention is for thunar to show thumbnails for the videos that are on my hard drive, but when I try to compile it, I get the following output:

bash-4.3# ./thunar-thumbnailers.SlackBuild
thunar-thumbnailers-0.4.1/
thunar-thumbnailers-0.4.1/NEWS
thunar-thumbnailers-0.4.1/mime/
thunar-thumbnailers-0.4.1/mime/thunar-thumbnailers.xml
thunar-thumbnailers-0.4.1/mime/Makefile.am
thunar-thumbnailers-0.4.1/mime/Makefile.in
thunar-thumbnailers-0.4.1/xcf-thumbnailer/
thunar-thumbnailers-0.4.1/xcf-thumbnailer/xcf-thumbnailer
thunar-thumbnailers-0.4.1/xcf-thumbnailer/Makefile.am
thunar-thumbnailers-0.4.1/xcf-thumbnailer/Makefile.in
thunar-thumbnailers-0.4.1/xcf-thumbnailer/xcf-thumbnailer.desktop.in
thunar-thumbnailers-0.4.1/ogg-thumbnailer/
thunar-thumbnailers-0.4.1/ogg-thumbnailer/ogg-thumbnailer
thunar-thumbnailers-0.4.1/ogg-thumbnailer/Makefile.am
thunar-thumbnailers-0.4.1/ogg-thumbnailer/Makefile.in
thunar-thumbnailers-0.4.1/ogg-thumbnailer/ogg-thumbnailer.desktop.in
thunar-thumbnailers-0.4.1/aclocal.m4
thunar-thumbnailers-0.4.1/fig-thumbnailer/
thunar-thumbnailers-0.4.1/fig-thumbnailer/fig-thumbnailer
thunar-thumbnailers-0.4.1/fig-thumbnailer/Makefile.am
thunar-thumbnailers-0.4.1/fig-thumbnailer/Makefile.in
thunar-thumbnailers-0.4.1/fig-thumbnailer/fig-thumbnailer.desktop.in
thunar-thumbnailers-0.4.1/README
thunar-thumbnailers-0.4.1/ps-thumbnailer/
thunar-thumbnailers-0.4.1/ps-thumbnailer/ps-thumbnailer
thunar-thumbnailers-0.4.1/ps-thumbnailer/ps-thumbnailer.desktop.in
thunar-thumbnailers-0.4.1/ps-thumbnailer/Makefile.am
thunar-thumbnailers-0.4.1/ps-thumbnailer/Makefile.in
thunar-thumbnailers-0.4.1/configure
thunar-thumbnailers-0.4.1/tex-thumbnailer/
thunar-thumbnailers-0.4.1/tex-thumbnailer/tex-thumbnailer
thunar-thumbnailers-0.4.1/tex-thumbnailer/tex-thumbnailer.desktop.in
thunar-thumbnailers-0.4.1/tex-thumbnailer/Makefile.am
thunar-thumbnailers-0.4.1/tex-thumbnailer/Makefile.in
thunar-thumbnailers-0.4.1/configure.in
thunar-thumbnailers-0.4.1/config.guess
thunar-thumbnailers-0.4.1/install-sh
thunar-thumbnailers-0.4.1/config.sub
thunar-thumbnailers-0.4.1/missing
thunar-thumbnailers-0.4.1/agr-thumbnailer/
thunar-thumbnailers-0.4.1/agr-thumbnailer/agr-thumbnailer
thunar-thumbnailers-0.4.1/agr-thumbnailer/Makefile.am
thunar-thumbnailers-0.4.1/agr-thumbnailer/Makefile.in
thunar-thumbnailers-0.4.1/agr-thumbnailer/agr-thumbnailer.desktop.in
thunar-thumbnailers-0.4.1/Makefile.am
thunar-thumbnailers-0.4.1/Makefile.in
thunar-thumbnailers-0.4.1/pdf-thumbnailer/
thunar-thumbnailers-0.4.1/pdf-thumbnailer/Makefile.am
thunar-thumbnailers-0.4.1/pdf-thumbnailer/Makefile.in
thunar-thumbnailers-0.4.1/pdf-thumbnailer/pdf-thumbnailer.desktop.in
thunar-thumbnailers-0.4.1/pdf-thumbnailer/pdf-thumbnailer
thunar-thumbnailers-0.4.1/config.h.in
thunar-thumbnailers-0.4.1/odf-thumbnailer/
thunar-thumbnailers-0.4.1/odf-thumbnailer/odf-thumbnailer.desktop.in
thunar-thumbnailers-0.4.1/odf-thumbnailer/Makefile.am
thunar-thumbnailers-0.4.1/odf-thumbnailer/Makefile.in
thunar-thumbnailers-0.4.1/odf-thumbnailer/odf-thumbnailer
thunar-thumbnailers-0.4.1/AUTHORS
thunar-thumbnailers-0.4.1/dvi-thumbnailer/
thunar-thumbnailers-0.4.1/dvi-thumbnailer/Makefile.am
thunar-thumbnailers-0.4.1/dvi-thumbnailer/Makefile.in
thunar-thumbnailers-0.4.1/dvi-thumbnailer/dvi-thumbnailer.desktop.in
thunar-thumbnailers-0.4.1/dvi-thumbnailer/dvi-thumbnailer
thunar-thumbnailers-0.4.1/raw-thumbnailer/
thunar-thumbnailers-0.4.1/raw-thumbnailer/raw-thumbnailer.desktop.in
thunar-thumbnailers-0.4.1/raw-thumbnailer/Makefile.am
thunar-thumbnailers-0.4.1/raw-thumbnailer/Makefile.in
thunar-thumbnailers-0.4.1/raw-thumbnailer/raw-thumbnailer
thunar-thumbnailers-0.4.1/INSTALL
thunar-thumbnailers-0.4.1/eps-thumbnailer/
thunar-thumbnailers-0.4.1/eps-thumbnailer/Makefile.am
thunar-thumbnailers-0.4.1/eps-thumbnailer/Makefile.in
thunar-thumbnailers-0.4.1/eps-thumbnailer/eps-thumbnailer.desktop.in
thunar-thumbnailers-0.4.1/eps-thumbnailer/eps-thumbnailer
thunar-thumbnailers-0.4.1/ChangeLog
thunar-thumbnailers-0.4.1/COPYING
thunar-thumbnailers-0.4.1/ffmpeg-thumbnailer/
thunar-thumbnailers-0.4.1/ffmpeg-thumbnailer/Makefile.am
thunar-thumbnailers-0.4.1/ffmpeg-thumbnailer/Makefile.in
thunar-thumbnailers-0.4.1/ffmpeg-thumbnailer/ffmpeg-thumbnailer.desktop.in
thunar-thumbnailers-0.4.1/ffmpeg-thumbnailer/ffmpeg-thumbnailer
thunar-thumbnailers-0.4.1/psd-thumbnailer/
thunar-thumbnailers-0.4.1/psd-thumbnailer/Makefile.am
thunar-thumbnailers-0.4.1/psd-thumbnailer/Makefile.in
thunar-thumbnailers-0.4.1/psd-thumbnailer/psd-thumbnailer.desktop.in
thunar-thumbnailers-0.4.1/psd-thumbnailer/psd-thumbnailer
thunar-thumbnailers-0.4.1/svgz-thumbnailer/
thunar-thumbnailers-0.4.1/svgz-thumbnailer/Makefile.am
thunar-thumbnailers-0.4.1/svgz-thumbnailer/Makefile.in
thunar-thumbnailers-0.4.1/svgz-thumbnailer/svgz-thumbnailer.desktop.in
thunar-thumbnailers-0.4.1/svgz-thumbnailer/svgz-thumbnailer
checking build system type... x86_64-slackware-linux-gnu
checking host system type... x86_64-slackware-linux-gnu
checking target system type... x86_64-slackware-linux-gnu
checking for a BSD-compatible install... /usr/bin/ginstall -c
checking whether build environment is sane... yes
checking for a thread-safe mkdir -p... /usr/bin/mkdir -p
checking for gawk... gawk
checking whether make sets $(MAKE)... yes
checking how to create a ustar tar archive... gnutar
checking whether to enable maintainer-specific portions of Makefiles... no
checking for a BSD-compatible install... /usr/bin/ginstall -c
checking for convert... /usr/bin/convert
checking for unzip... /usr/bin/unzip
checking for latex... /usr/share/texmf/bin/latex
configure: creating ./config.status
config.status: creating Makefile
config.status: creating eps-thumbnailer/Makefile
config.status: creating tex-thumbnailer/Makefile
config.status: creating ps-thumbnailer/Makefile
config.status: creating raw-thumbnailer/Makefile
config.status: creating fig-thumbnailer/Makefile
config.status: creating agr-thumbnailer/Makefile
config.status: creating ffmpeg-thumbnailer/Makefile
config.status: creating ogg-thumbnailer/Makefile
config.status: creating svgz-thumbnailer/Makefile
config.status: creating pdf-thumbnailer/Makefile
config.status: creating dvi-thumbnailer/Makefile
config.status: creating odf-thumbnailer/Makefile
config.status: creating xcf-thumbnailer/Makefile
config.status: creating psd-thumbnailer/Makefile
config.status: creating mime/Makefile
config.status: creating config.h
./thunar-thumbnailers.SlackBuild: line 84: --enable-ffmpeg: command not found

and yes, I have ffmpeg installed, as well as ffmpegthumbnailer.

This means you're trying to run --enable-ffmpeg as a command, but it needs to be part of the ./configure command. So you should change the ./configure portion of the script for the following (note the trailing backspace after --build=$ARCH-slackware-linux:

CFLAGS="$SLKCFLAGS" \
CXXFLAGS="$SLKCFLAGS" \
./configure \
  --prefix=/usr \
  --libdir=/usr/lib${LIBDIRSUFFIX} \
  --sysconfdir=/etc/xfce \
  --docdir=/usr/doc/$PRGNAM-$VERSION \
  --enable-debug=no \
  --enable-tex \
  --disable-update-mime-database \
  --build=$ARCH-slackware-linux \
  --enable-ffmpeg

EDIT: This does require having ffmpegthumbnailer installed, in addition to ffmpeg itself.

Thank you.

I managed to get thunar-thumbnailer compiled and installed, and according to the instructions for it, I am supposed to execute the following command:

/usr/libexec/thunar-vfs-update-thumbnailers-cache-1

which I did (as user, and root) and got the following result both times:

bash-4.3# /usr/libexec/thunar-vfs-update-thumbnailers-cache-1
bash: /usr/libexec/thunar-vfs-update-thumbnailers-cache-1: No such file or directory

I think this is likely an old and outdated piece of software. It seems the current version was released back in 2008. Based on looking through packages.slackware.com, /usr/libexec/thunar-vfs-update-thumbnailers-cache-1 used to be a part of the xfce package, but it last existed in Slackware in 13.37. It might be time to retire this package on SBo and might be worth hitting up the maintainer (rworkman, who happens to provide updated xfce packages for -current -- so if it is able to be fixed, he'd be the guy to know).

Originally Posted by bassmadrigal I think this is likely an old and outdated piece of software. It seems the current version was released back in 2008. Based on looking through packages.slackware.com, /usr/libexec/thunar-vfs-update-thumbnailers-cache-1 used to be a part of the xfce package, but it last existed in Slackware in 13.37. It might be time to retire this package on SBo and might be worth hitting up the maintainer (rworkman, who happens to provide updated xfce packages for -current -- so if it is able to be fixed, he'd be the guy to know).

Are there any alternatives that would perform the same function, and if so, what are they?

Originally Posted by TheNutCase Are there any alternatives that would perform the same function, and if so, what are they?

if you have ffmpeg and ffmpegthumbnailer already installed you can try rebuilding tumbler from the sources in the Slackware tree (/source/xfce/tumbler/), it should build the plugins for making thumbnails using ffmpeg.

Thank you.

Originally Posted by ponce if you have ffmpeg and ffmpegthumbnailer already installed you can try rebuilding tumbler from the sources in the Slackware tree (/source/xfce/tumbler/), it should build the plugins for making thumbnails using ffmpeg.

I'm sorry, but this is one of those times were I was just slow to respond (but, better late then never, I suppose). My question, at any rate, is this: How do I go about rebuilding that "tumbler" file (yes, it's been a while since I've done it)?

wget -r -nH --no-parent --reject="index.htm*" --cut-dirs=4 https://mirror.slackbuilds.org/slackware/slackware64-current/source/xfce/tumbler/
cd tumbler
sh tumbler.SlackBuild
upgradepkg --reinstall /tmp/tumbler*.t?z

Thank you.