[x264-devel] libx264.so.58 big problem for my FC8 distro

[Dominik 'Rathann' Mierzejewski]

On Wednesday, 12 March 2008 at 19:24, Tom Poe wrote:
> Dominik 'Rathann' Mierzejewski wrote:
> > On Monday, 10 March 2008 at 23:42, Tom Poe wrote:
> >   
> >> Livna repository rejects efforts to install ffmpeg.  Need help.  I svn'd 
> >> the x264, and copied the libx264.so.58 file to /usr/lib, added /usr/lib 
> >> to my path, but not able to localinstall ffmpeg february package, and 
> >> not able to yum install livna packages:
> >> # yum install ffmpeg*
> >> Setting up Install Process
> >> Parsing package install arguments
> >> Examining ffmpeg-0.4.9-0.10.20080214.fc8.i386.rpm: ffmpeg - 
> >> 0.4.9-0.10.20080214.fc8.i386
> >> Marking ffmpeg-0.4.9-0.10.20080214.fc8.i386.rpm to be installed
> >> Examining ffmpeg-devel-0.4.9-0.10.20080214.fc8.i386.rpm: ffmpeg-devel - 
> >> 0.4.9-0.10.20080214.fc8.i386
> >> Marking ffmpeg-devel-0.4.9-0.10.20080214.fc8.i386.rpm to be installed
> >>     
> >
> > Where did you get this package?
> >
> > Current livna package is ffmpeg-0.4.9-0.41.20071011.lvn8.$arch.rpm,
> > so wherever you got it from, it wasn't from livna-stable.
> >
> > Also, manually copying libx264.so.58 to /usr/lib won't make rpm happy,
> > because it has to be registered in rpmdb. You do that by installing an
> > appropriate rpm package, not by copying a file by hand.
> >
> > Regards,
> > R.
> >
> >   
> Thanks for the info.  So, I need to install libx264.so.58, not 
> libx264.so.56.  Is it possible to do that?  Or, doesn't your project 
> have libx264.so.58 available?

We do, but only for the development version of Fedora. It is possible to
install it for F8, but it's not trivial, because many packages depend on
x264 (mencoder, ffmpeg, avidemux, gpac), so apart from building a new x264
rpm, you'd have to rebuild any dependent apps that you have installed. But
if you're up to it, then get the source rpm from livna-devel:
http://livna-dl.reloumirrors.net/fedora/development/SRPMS/x264-0.0.0-0.12.20080227.lvn9.src.rpm
and run rpmbuild --rebuild x264-0.0.0-0.12.20080227.lvn9.src.rpm. Install
the resulting x264 and x264-devel RPMs and then do the same for all
dependent apps.

Regards,
R.

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