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Perhaps you can elaborate on that, so I can point you to a way to get this working again.
What was the download URL for this VLC 3.0.6 package? What version of VLC did you have installed before? What was the exact error that you get when running this vlc binary?
Did you install all of the required dependencies on Slackware 14.2 from my repository (libinput, libwacom, libxkbcommon, qt5, qt5-webkit)?
I installed it using slackpkg from alienbob repo, then I have reinstalled from http://bear.alienbase.nl/mirrors/peo...lc/pkg64/14.2/ The previous version was the previous you shared: 3.0.4 as far as I remember. Error output from strace was about non-existing libs in /usr/lib64/
I had already installed: libinput, libwacom, libxkbcommon, qt5, qt5-webkit:
libinput-1.5.4-x86_64-1alien
libwacom-0.22-x86_64-1alien
libxkbcommon-0.7.1-x86_64-1alien
qt5-5.7.1-x86_64-1alien
qt5-webkit-5.7.1-x86_64-1alien
qt5 has been installed together with your last KDE5 release for 14.2.
It seems you need to update the deps as well
AlienBOB has updated some (if not all) of the deps to the latest version as well and VLC is built against those latest libraries.
I installed it using slackpkg from alienbob repo, then I have reinstalled from http://bear.alienbase.nl/mirrors/peo...lc/pkg64/14.2/ The previous version was the previous you shared: 3.0.4 as far as I remember. Error output from strace was about non-existing libs in /usr/lib64/
I had already installed: libinput, libwacom, libxkbcommon, qt5, qt5-webkit:
libinput-1.5.4-x86_64-1alien
libwacom-0.22-x86_64-1alien
libxkbcommon-0.7.1-x86_64-1alien
qt5-5.7.1-x86_64-1alien
qt5-webkit-5.7.1-x86_64-1alien
qt5 has been installed together with your last KDE5 release for 14.2.
You don't have the latest packages fir Slackware 14.2 installed from my repository (libwacom-0.31, libinput-1.7.3, libxkbcommon-0.8.2, qt5-5.9.6, qt5-webkit-5.9.1) and that is why VLC fails to run because it was compiled against those newer package libraries.
You don't have the latest packages fir Slackware 14.2 installed from my repository (libwacom-0.31, libinput-1.7.3, libxkbcommon-0.8.2, qt5-5.9.6, qt5-webkit-5.9.1) and that is why VLC fails to run because it was compiled against those newer package libraries.
You have KDE5 installed on Slackware 14.2? I assume then that this is the old version of KDE5 which I stopped updating end of 2017?
I have no idea if updating the qt5 and qt5-webkit packages will break this old version of KDE5, it is un-maintained as far as I am concerned. If you really want to use KDE5 you may consider a switch to slackware-current.
Of course, you can build VLC from source against the qt5 and qt5-webkit which you have installed, and that should work. However, it's likely that more and more binary packages will no longer work on your old KDE5 install with the passing of time...
You have KDE5 installed on Slackware 14.2? I assume then that this is the old version of KDE5 which I stopped updating end of 2017?
I have no idea if updating the qt5 and qt5-webkit packages will break this old version of KDE5, it is un-maintained as far as I am concerned. If you really want to use KDE5 you may consider a switch to slackware-current.
Of course, you can build VLC from source against the qt5 and qt5-webkit which you have installed, and that should work. However, it's likely that more and more binary packages will no longer work on your old KDE5 install with the passing of time...
Yes, that's the one you no longer maintain. I don't want to mess with that now. I am planning to upgrade to 15.0 (or whatever number it will be) once available. I hope that will happen soon.
Yes, that's the one you no longer maintain. I don't want to mess with that now. I am planning to upgrade to 15.0 (or whatever number it will be) once available. I hope that will happen soon.
note that in SBo too qt5 is at version 5.9.x, so if you have (or will have) any problems building anything that utilizes qt5 consider that you are using an unsupported setup.
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