audio players

[Charles Hallenbeck]

Hi Kenny,

When I tried the "fakroot" shortcut, I had a missing component there 
too, with no clue how to find it. The script stopped with a message 
about "dh_testdir" not being found. I agree with you about the merits of 
local compiling, but the apt-get convenience is compelling. I have 
evidently overlooked some critical -dev files and have to figure out 
what.

Chuck


On Mon, 18 Apr 2005, Kenny Hitt wrote:

> Hi.
>
> Here's how I built mplayer from source.
> I ran the script in the debian subdir of the mplay source instead of
> just running ./configure.  This script told me the packages needed to be
> installed when it couldn't find things.
> In case it doesn't, install the apt-file package.  You will need to
> run
>
> apt-file update
>
> before it will be useful.
>
> After that, when the configure process doesn't find something, use
> apt-file search filename
>
> to find the package containing the file.  I like using the script
> instead of getting someone's pre-built package because I ended up with a
> mplayer Debian package built specific to my system.  For example, it is
> built for my AMD cpu instead of auto detecting the cpu each time it starts.
>
> Hope this helps.
>          Kenny

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