[vlc] VLC and Jack

Christophe Mutricy xtophe at nxtelevision.com
Sun Sep 2 23:57:43 CEST 2007


> 
> >>> But you still can do apt-get source vlc, modify debian/rules to add
> >>> - --enable-jack flag, and dpkg-buildpackage -us -uc -rfakeroot
> Should I put the source files in a permanent directory somewhere outside 
> of my home directory? They are currently in ~/vlc.

That's fine. at the end of the compilation you'll have some .deb files.
Install them with dpkg -i *.deb  as root.

> 
> When I ran the dpkg command you sent me, I get a ton of errors, mainly 
> dependency errors, but some others too. I am completely lost:(

You need to get all the build depedancies for vlc. apt-get build-dep vlc
will do that for you.
And you obviously need to add libjack-dev

-- 
Xtophe



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