audio players

[Charles Hallenbeck]

Yes, I forgot to mention that one.


On Mon, 18 Apr 2005, Sean McMahon wrote:

> 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
>
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>> 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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