Mark Lanctot wrote:
> One of the minor annoyances I've had regarding the switch to Linux is
> the older FLAC versions that are out there.  Debian/Ubuntu is stuck at
> 1.1.2, so I'm missing out on the compression improvements in 1.1.3 and
> the dramatic encoding speed increase in 1.1.4.

Use the source Luke, er, Mark.

Just grab the tarball, unpack it, and build it. Something like:

# as non-root user
mkdir /tmp/download
cd /tmp/download
wget http://downloads.sourceforge.net/flac/flac-1.1.4.tar.gz
tar zxvf flac-1.1.4.tar.gz
cd flac-1.1.4
./configure --prefix=/usr && make && make check
# switch to root user
cd /tmp/download/flac-1.1.4
make install

You will need a gnu build environment installed (gcc, gcc-c++, make,
etc.) plus, optionally, the vorbis devel. libs for ogg support, and xmms
for xmms support (I didn't bother with this).

I'm in the same position on FC6 so I just installed from source.

BTW, the tests take *ages* to complete (the "make check" bit).

R.

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