A Full-Featured Multimedia Slackware

Slacker Steve · 01-04-2009, 04:36 PM

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Originally Posted by Woodsman

Originally I used the build script from slacky.eu.

Didn't realize slacky.eu had build scripts for their packages. Thanks, that'll come in handy for when I can't find something on Slackbuilds.org

Woodsman · 01-04-2009, 04:43 PM

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. . . but I do feel it is missing some things.

I updated the page with some of the ideas mentioned. Hopefully this helps.

bgeddy · 01-04-2009, 10:05 PM

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Didn't realize slacky.eu had build scripts for their packages. Thanks, that'll come in handy for when I can't find something on Slackbuilds.org

Just check the "src/" directory - they host the SlackBuild and the source. A very useful resource to add to your armoury

I would still recommend looking at README's, INSTALL's, slack-required's etc as well as the *.SlackBuild before running to make sure all requisites are followed and no oddness is scripted in.

Probably just being paranoid here..

shadowsnipes · 01-08-2009, 10:51 AM

Woodsman, the updated article looks better. Thank you

Woodsman · 01-08-2009, 04:18 PM

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the updated article looks better.

Thanks.

I learned long ago that the worst proofreader, editor, and reviewer of any written piece is the original author. Feedback and additional writing effort is almost always needed. So thanks to everybody who responded.

farmerdave · 01-08-2009, 10:34 PM

I really like Amarok, but it doesnt have the MusicBrainz function straight away, which is really useful for tagging new music in your library.

pddm · 01-13-2009, 11:32 AM

Woodsman, Nice post!

In regard of DavidHindman's compilation or package creation problems, I noticed that many applications and components, which depend on ffmpeg components (like libavcodec or libavformat), look for the header files and libraries in the wrong places.

They mostly expect a ffmpeg subdirectory wherever they search for them, or you indicate where they are supposed to be and they still look for an ffmpeg subdirectory.

This even happens with the slackbuilds.org built package of ffmpeg.

One way for me to overcome this, was to create ffmpeg directories in /usr/lib and /usr/include and create symbolic links to the files in question. ie:

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ln -s /usr/include/libavformat/avformat.h  /usr/include/ffmpeg/avformat.h
ln -s /usr/include/libavcodec/avcodec.h  /usr/include/ffmpeg/avcodec.h

Check the configure.log file to see which headers or libraries are not found.
I experienced this when satisfying the dependencies for mediatomb and ushare.

stormtracknole · 01-13-2009, 09:49 PM

Woodsman!

Thank you very much for taking time to write this guide. Your page is fantastic and I have it bookmarked on my computer. Great source of info!

tramni1980 · 01-14-2009, 02:57 AM

I could not make k3b recognize the presence of libmusicbrains installation.
Here is some output of k3b's configure script:

Code:

checking musicbrainz/mb_c.h usability... no
checking musicbrainz/mb_c.h presence... no
checking for musicbrainz/mb_c.h... no

K3b - Tag guessing using MusicBrainz          no
K3b -     You are missing the musicbrainz headers and libraries.
K3b -     K3b will be compiled without support for tag guessing.

I have installed libmusicbrainz-3.0.2. The library header that k3b-1.0.5 does not find is present in:

Code:

slocate mb_c.h:
/usr/include/musicbrainz3/mb_c.h

Any suggestions?

Mark Pettit · 01-14-2009, 06:07 AM

Your musicbrainz is installing the headers to 'musicbrainz3',
not the 'musicbrainz' directory that k3b is expecting.

A quick fix would be to soft-link the directory ...
cd /usr/include
ln -s musicbrainz3 musicbrainz

tramni1980 · 01-14-2009, 07:57 AM

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Originally Posted by Mark Pettit

Your musicbrainz is installing the headers to 'musicbrainz3',
not the 'musicbrainz' directory that k3b is expecting.

A quick fix would be to soft-link the directory ...
cd /usr/include
ln -s musicbrainz3 musicbrainz

Thank you for your reply.
Well, I did that and now the problem is:

Code:

checking for mb_New in -lmusicbrainz... no

Regards,
Martin

Mark Pettit · 01-14-2009, 11:17 AM

So - not just a simple include directory name difference, but
a complete library change too.

Looks to me as if k3b is set to use an older version of musicbrainz.

So - you either persuade k3b to use the new library (unlikely i'd guess),
or you install an older version of musicbrainz (maybe ver 2 or 1 ?) and
try again. Maybe there's a newer version of k3b (in subversion/development)
that is using the new musicbrainz.

But this is the fun part. And when you solve it, you will be the stronger
for it.

andrew.46 · 01-30-2009, 05:57 PM

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Originally Posted by Woodsman

Note: there is a small bug with building ffmpeg. The bug is being remedied in the slackbuild script but is not yet uploaded. The ffmpeg configure file is hard-coded to look for a TEMPDIR variable. If you use /tmp as your temporary working directory then run the build script like this: TEMPDIR=/tmp sh ffmpeg.SlackBuild.

Of course, then try again to build transcode.

Thanks for solving 24 hours of frustration for me when attempting to build the new version of transcode! I note the FFmpeg script on slackbuilds.org has not received this small but vital change, was it rejected for some reason?

Andrew

Woodsman · 02-02-2009, 03:24 PM

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I note the FFmpeg script on slackbuilds.org has not received this small but vital change, was it rejected for some reason?

I don't know.

You'll have to ask at the slackbuilds.org mailing list.