Basically the problem I was having was that 'configure' was giving me grief as it was not seeing libraries installed via dpkg. Ended up doing 'apt-get remove pkg1 pkg2 ...' and compiling what I needed from source. For those interested, you can see the dependencies here: http://www.icecast.org/docs/icecast-2.3.1/
And for those who want to know more about Icecast, the streaming media server: http://www.icecast.org/docs/icecast-2.3.1/icecast2_faq.html John On 12/2/05, Will Hill <williamhill2 at cox.net> wrote: > > I imagine it is a common problem. The developers must use newer code at > some > point, so they probably have more than one set installed at any one time. > > You would think that a source install would just work if installed the > .deb > package and put you put the compiled source into /usr/local or some other > place like that. I compiled Geant4 recently and made it work. It was > able > to see most of what I have on my system when I do a make config. I > apt-got > or pointed to what it complained about until it worked. I also had lots > of > help from someone who had set the thing up under Red Hat many times. > > What have you actually tried so far? > > > > On Friday 02 December 2005 05:22 am, John Hebert wrote: > > Howdy, > > > > I am setting up a Icecast2 server using Debian. I'd like to compile the > > latest version of the Icecast2 source code and use that, but it has > > dependencies that aren't met by available .deb packages. In other words, > > the .deb packages use older versions and I need to use the newer > versions. > > > > This seems like it would be a common problem: Is there a method for > making > > compiled source code and .deb packages recognize each other? Is it that > I > > need to update the .deb package database with dummy entries for the new > > versions of the compiled software? Or, should I just build and install > .deb > > packages with the newer versions of the source code? > > > > Thanks, > > John > > _______________________________________________ > General mailing list > General at brlug.net > http://brlug.net/mailman/listinfo/general_brlug.net > -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: http://brlug.net/pipermail/general_brlug.net/attachments/20051203/fe09e5ac/attachment.htm
