On Sun, Feb 16, 2003 at 06:11:54PM +0100, Oliver Kusch wrote:
> Hi there!
>
> I tried to install avifile (avifile-0.7.29-20030204.tgz) after
> downloading it just as it says in the README:
>
> make install
>
> aviplay
>
> Everything seemed to work fine until I tried to start the program. After
> typing 'aviplay' I just get:
>
> bash: aviplay: command not found
Common default behaviour of package is to install itself into
/usr/local/ directory - thus if you don't have set path
to /usr/local/bin and you libraries aren't being searched in
/usr/local/lib you might eventually have some problems :)
If you really wish to install aviplay right into your
/usr/bin - you will have to pass configure options ' --prefix=/usr '
(But I would have strongly suggested to not doing so)
> I tried to find aviplay or something similar on my system but couldn't
> find anything. Is there something wrong with the install skript or did I
> make any mistakes?
> I looked through the faqs but my problem wasn't there. I hope you can
> help me on this!
It might be good idea to try first to use already packaged versions.
Installing binaries directly into system might lead into a lot of
trash on your filesystem later (i.e. older unusable libraries...)
If you want to install binaries yourself I would have suggest
to take some look at programs like 'stow'.
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