[vlc] Re: vlc on redhat 8.0

[Vikram]

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Jason Luka" <jason at geshp.com>
To: <vlc at videolan.org>
Sent: Tuesday, February 10, 2004 4:35 PM
Subject: [vlc] Re: vlc on redhat 8.0


> Vikram wrote:
>
> >Hello friends,
> >
> >Does anyone have good experience with installing vlc 0.7.0 on redhat 8.0?
I
> >have had a lot of trouble doing this.  There are too many dependencies
when
> >I used the rpm install.  After satisfying all dependencies, I still had
to
> >update glibc and glibc-common and that messed up my system, I had to
> >reinstall redhat 8.0.  I also tried installing vlc by compiling the
source
> >but make fails for a lot of applications involved.  Does anyone have any
> >tips that they would like to share?
> >
> >Thanks
> >Vikram
> >
> >
> >
> >
> As far as VLC binaries go, I intentionally cut them off for Red Hat 8.0,
> due to the change in XFree86 and glibc versions, so installing from
> source is really the only safe way to go.  I just really can't keep all
> the different versions of Linux on the same machine.  That particular
> .spec file wasn't designed to be backwards compatible, but if you tell
> me what errors you are getting, I may be able to help you work around
that.
>

Hello Jason,

Thanks for writing.  I do not mind compiling from the source, in fact I like
doing that, but the make failed on at least 5 packages.  Can you provide
some advise on the sequence for installing these required packages for vlc?

Thanks
Vikram


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