Evan -
My only qualm with building from source is all the dependencies. I got
through many of them, but am now stuck at Numeric. It says I need
lapack [ i think, some math algorithms ]. I download that source, it
says i need the gcc-fortran package, which i install from the slack cd
and it still doesn't work. I got fairly frustrated fairly quickly. I
am no expert, but have been using slack on the desktop for almost 3
years now. I guess I never had to work quite this hard to get software
running, not to mention having no python or PVR experience!
I was open to changing distros for this project if there was one that
lent itself to freevo any better than the last.
I was looking for an adventure and it looks like I found one!
-peter
Evan Hisey wrote:
Peter-
Not much help on gentoo for you other than you will need a strong
box build it on or have a lot of patiences. VIdalinux is a stage 3
install of Gentoo and might be a better starting point. I personally
have no trouble at all out of my slackware freevo box. it is an old p3
550 with 128mg ram with an nvidia card running tv out. I used it with
DXR3 for a while but thought DVDs where nice everything else was abit
off. Never did figure out why.
Evan
On Mon, 31 Jan 2005 10:56:57 -0500, Peter Stickney
<[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
Scott -
Thanks for the suggestion, I think I will try Gentoo out. I am not
familiar with its usage, but have heard of it before. Any thing I
should consider during installation to make it an easy freevo install?
-peter
Scott Serr wrote:
You might think about using a different distro for a freevo box. I
know 2 years ago SuSE was my favorite, but to get mplayer to have
everything in it I had to compile about 15 dependencies in /usr/local
and get them all just right. I was actually trying to write a script
to build them all in the right order. Then I found Gentoo, it seems
to be well suited for A/V projects because of it's dependency
structure and "fresh" packages. Gentoo now has a Freevo .ebuild which
works flawlessly too. (Didn't always have one, and it didn't always
work flawlessly)
-Scott
peter stickney wrote:
A long time slack user, I have just started to look into Freevo. I
think I bit of more than I can chew, I am drowning in source and
dependencies and such. Shawn's idea of a repository is a great one.
The "whole shebang" package would be a nice bonus, but I would be
happy with a repository of packages.
-peter
Shawn Dowler wrote:
I use Freevo on Slackware 10 and I think it would be most beneficial
to have all the deps seperately compiled and available as packages. I
think it would greatly aid the average slackware user much better than
having a huge package to install for minor upgrades.
On the other hand, if you wanted to pake a single monolithic package
then it would be easier to make sure everything for freevo was
compiled against the right versions of everything else. I've found it
much easier to have everything seperate but that's possibly just
because I've compiled all the deps myself and installed then with
checkinstall.
I would like to have access to a repository with both individual
packages and a "whole shebang" package so I'd have the choice. Just
some things to think about.
Shawn Dowler
On Sun, 30 Jan 2005 12:12:55 -0600, Evan Hisey <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
wrote:
I was wondering the best way to pacakge Freevo. Would it be better to
build all teh deps seperately and make it available that way or to
build a single all in one binary? I can see advantages to both.
Especially with Slackware not really having a Dep. tracking system.
Evan
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