VLC?
Long time slacker, but new to arm!
My family bought me a Pi 400 for Xmas (Yay!), so I've immediately installed slackware-current from SARPI. So far so good. Some of my favourite apps are missing, most noticeably VLC. I've tried building AlienBob's package (which seems to be ARM friendly), but it complains about apache-ant being missing, which is NOT ARM friendly - as far as I can see, anyway! The distro supplied with the 400 (Raspbian?) does have VLC, and I think Raspbian is based on Debian? In theory, if I can find the .deb package, I should be able to run deb2tgz on it and install it, provided the dependencies are met. Am I barking up the wrong tree? Has anyone got VLC working under slackware-arm? All suggestions gratefully received! -- Pete |
build script vlc-3.0.11.1-aarch64-1mara.txz, but the compiled package is not under aarch32
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Wow! That was quick! Many thanks for that!
As I said, I'm very new to Arm, although I've been using Slackware for a very long time. I was under the impression that the Pi 400 was 64-bit. Is this correct? And does this imply that the SARPI install is only 32-bit? Sorry if these are dumb questions, but I've only had it a couple of days, and I'm still finding my way around it! -- Pete |
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Thanks for the replies!
I'm currently downloading slarm64 to my local (home) repository. If I can figure out how to tweak the slackware installer to suit, I'll have a go at installing it instead of slackwarearm. I need to find out how the boot system works on arm, because it appears quite different from Intel/AMD. Shame there isn't something like AlienBob's usbimg2disk.sh to create a bootable install media. SARPI seemed to have something like that, but it still involved a lot of manual fiddling on completion of the install, in order to make the SD card bootable. I have a lot of research / reading to do! Can you recommend a good "idiot's guide" to arm? ;) -- Pete |
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I've looked at the Pi 400 previously and didn't fancy buying it. Though I did wonder if the SARPi installer in its current form would get Slackware ARM running on this new device easily. You're the first person I'm aware of who's used SARPi to install Slackware ARM on this device so that's answered my question. Thanks very much for sharing the info. :thumbsup: As for VLC, I've taken a quick look at Eric's work and it looks pretty intense on the face of it. Looking at his build notes it's obvious why... http://www.slackware.com/~alien/slac...vlc.SlackBuild Code:
# NOTE: this SlackBuild is a monster - it tries to wrap all dependencies to For example; I can't remember what I was building last year (or maybe earlier this year) but it required Google go-lang to be installed in order to build. Somebody said to me "Oh, you're out of luck! That'll never build for the ARM platform because there are missing <insert forgotten elements here>." So I looked at the Slackbuild.org scripts for go-lang, which seemed pretty straight-forward, and decided to build the dependent pkgs one by one in order before having a stab at go-lang itself. It took me a few hours to build the dependencies and 6-8 hours on building and installing go-lang itself (it was a real PITA as I recall). Managed it in the end through manipulation and installation of the required pkgs in the right order. So that leads me to questions. Why is apache-ant not ARM friendly? Is there any reason why apache-ant cannot be built for ARM architecture? If you had apache-ant for ARM installed would this enable you to build VLC using Eric's scripts? |
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Just wanted to know if you'd built it successfully under ARM (i.e. 'aarch32'). Do you have a link to your 'aarch32' version of the pkg by any chance? :) |
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I work exclusively with the official Slackware ARM source-tree. I once had a very bad experience with a version of "Slackware" (note the double quotes) on the Orange Pi and it wasn't pretty. However, I am interested in alien's "monster" VLC build scripts. Think I'll play around with them a little while I'm under house-arrest due to lock-down regulations here in the UK. :) |
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