[SOLVED] soundconverter fails compile, a little help?

scarrz · 09-16-2014, 04:07 PM

hi all...
I use soundconverter alot to encode files for my iPhone and I prefer to use Slackware as my main OS. I emailed the package maintainer about this but got no response. here is the body of the email:

hello
I use soundconverter extensively and am getting an error when I try to perform "sboinstall soundconverter"

here is the error:

configure: error: required python-gnome version not found

as far as I know I have all the correct dependencies installed and am wondering what is wrong. the only thing I can think of is the SBo package I installed is called "gnome-python" and NOT "python-gnome"

I am on Slackware-Current and this package installed correctly the last time I did an install on the same operating system. I just nuked my system to get dropline gnome off of it and am going through the motions of getting my favorite software set up. I am a bit of a newb when it comes to slackbuilds but usually don't have any problems. I read somewhere on the net that the package might not be in the correct PATH, but I don't know how to investigate that.

any help would be appreciated. Thanks

I really want this program on my system so I can make .m4a files for my phone. any direction from you guys would be greatly appreciated. Thanks.

irgunII · 09-16-2014, 04:10 PM

Look for a thread with PACPL in it. I posted there to install this program and I really like it, been using it for some years now.

55020 · 09-16-2014, 05:03 PM

I suspect you're missing gnome-python-desktop, or built it without some of its deps. I can build soundconverter successfully on 14.1 (not current) with these dependencies:

Code:

Dependencies of audio/soundconverter:
  audio/a52dec
  audio/aften
  audio/faac
  audio/faad2
  audio/twolame
  development/gnome-common
  libraries/PyXML
  libraries/gnome-media
  libraries/lame
  libraries/libgnomeui
  misc/gnome-mime-data
  multimedia/ffmpeg
  python/gnome-python-desktop
  python/gst-python
Dependencies of audio/faac:
  libraries/libmp4v2
Dependencies of libraries/libgnomeui:
  libraries/libbonoboui
Dependencies of libraries/libbonoboui:
  libraries/libgnome
  libraries/libgnomecanvas
Dependencies of libraries/libgnome:
  system/gnome-vfs
Dependencies of system/gnome-vfs:
  libraries/libbonobo
  misc/gnome-mime-data
Dependencies of libraries/libbonobo:
  libraries/ORBit2
Dependencies of multimedia/ffmpeg:
  audio/celt
  audio/faac
  audio/opencore-amr
  audio/speex
  libraries/OpenAL
  libraries/frei0r
  libraries/gsm
  libraries/lame
  libraries/libdc1394
  libraries/libvpx
  libraries/openjpeg
  multimedia/rtmpdump
  multimedia/schroedinger
  multimedia/x264
  multimedia/xvidcore
Dependencies of audio/faac:
  libraries/libmp4v2
Dependencies of multimedia/schroedinger:
  development/orc
Dependencies of python/gnome-python-desktop:
  python/gnome-python
Dependencies of python/gnome-python:
  libraries/libgnome
  python/pyorbit
Dependencies of libraries/libgnome:
  system/gnome-vfs
Dependencies of system/gnome-vfs:
  libraries/libbonobo
  misc/gnome-mime-data
Dependencies of libraries/libbonobo:
  libraries/ORBit2
Dependencies of python/pyorbit:
  libraries/ORBit2

So just work your way through that lot cleanly and methodically, and everything will be fine.

Paulo2 · 09-17-2014, 12:08 PM

Hello scarrz , if you cannot get soundconverter working, ffmpeg can covert to m4a.
At least VLC can play the .m4a file, I don't know about iphone or ipod.
But seems that the cover image is lost, ffmpeg tries to convert it as video.
With -vn option (disable video) the conversion is ok.

Code:

ffmpeg -i test.mp3 -f mp4 test.m4a

scarrz · 09-19-2014, 03:20 AM

hi all...

I managed to get soundconverter installed correctly. here's how I did it on slackware-current

tools: pkgtool, sbotools, slackpkg, http://google.ca

I used pkgtool to view and remove the following: gst-python gnome-media gnome-python-desktop and soundconverter

then I used sbotools to re-install all the above along with EVERY possible package dependency possible for soundconverter.

after that I used sbotools to install soundconverter but the build failed on the very same package as before so I looked at the version and did a little googling...
and came up with the following: soundconverter-2.1.2-x86_64-1vl71.txz
here: (link)

Quote:

installpkg soundconverter-2.1.2-x86_64-1vl71.txz

and almost there... running soundconverter in a console complained of a missing libaudiofile.so.0 so I did a

Quote:

locate libaudiofile

as root and found /usr/lib64/libaudiofile.so.1 so all I did was:

Quote:

cp /usr/lib64/libaudiofile.so.1 /usr/lib64/libaudiofile.so.0

and now soundconverter is running correctly.

marking my little venture on slackware-current as solved