Unable to install VLC media player

rng · 11-11-2015, 12:00 AM

I tried to use sbotools to install VLC media player. It failed with following message that did not find libavutil ; needs to pass --disable-avcodec to ignore this error.

I tried finding libavutil in Slackware, Salix etc repositories but could not find it. From google, I see that it is part of FFmpeg, which was installed by sboinstall. I do not know how to pass --disable-avcodec option through sboinstall command. Thanks for your help.

Didier Spaier · 11-11-2015, 12:44 AM

vlc is especially hard to build because of its many dependencies and options. It's easier to get it from AlienBOB's (aka Eric Hameleers) repository.

rng · 11-11-2015, 02:59 AM

I had given the command 'sboinstall -r vlc' (to fetch, build and install vlc and its needed uninstalled dependencies without manual confirmation). So at this stage, I think many dependencies would have got installed. If I now install vlc binary from http://www.slackware.com/~alien/slackbuilds/, do I need to check anything regarding dependencies?

Alien Bob · 11-11-2015, 04:24 AM

Quote:

Originally Posted by rng

I had given the command 'sboinstall -r vlc' (to fetch, build and install vlc and its needed uninstalled dependencies without manual confirmation). So at this stage, I think many dependencies would have got installed. If I now install vlc binary from http://www.slackware.com/~alien/slackbuilds/, do I need to check anything regarding dependencies?

No.