audio players

[Sean McMahon]

You should also have security.debian.org
----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Charles Hallenbeck" <chuckh at hhs48.com>
To: "Speakup is a screen review system for Linux." <speakup at braille.uwo.ca>
Sent: Monday, April 18, 2005 5:14 AM
Subject: Re: audio players


> Okay, I got farther. With debhelper installed, the configuration
> proceeds until it needs png support, then dies and asks me to install
> libpng and libpng_dev, but apt-get cannot find libpng, even after doing
> an update.
>
> Question: Should I have multiple entries in my source.list? Or are they
> mostly mirrors? At present I have mirrors.kernel.org, ftp.us.debian.org,
> and http://linux.csua.berkeley.edu/debian/.
>
> Would it help to add other sources?
>
>
>
> On Mon, 18 Apr 2005, Kenny Hitt wrote:
>
> > Hi.
> >
> > When I run
> >
> > apt-file search dh_testdir
> >
> > I get the following:
> >
> > debhelper: usr/bin/dh_testdir
> >
> > Running
> >
> > apt-get install debhelper
> >
> > will fix the problem.
> >
> > I use Debian's packages as much as possible, but if there isn't an
> > official package, I like to make sure the program I build is a local
> > Debian package and configured closest for my system.
> >
> > Hope this helps.
> >          Kenny
> >
> > On Mon, Apr 18, 2005 at 05:16:30AM -0400, Charles Hallenbeck wrote:
> >> 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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