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On Thursday 13 November 2003 04:11, Krikket wrote:
I've found and downloaded the latest xine. It was only available as a tarball (tar.gz) (Reason for not using the default version: I don't want crippleware! I want to actually *watch* my DVDs.... I can understand SuSE's reason for the business decision, but...)
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I install the xine-lib, with only minor difficulties. (I had to resolve some dependency conflicts, but it was a realitively easy process. It tolf me exactly what I was missng, and I installed 'em.)
So now I go and decompress xine-ui. Run ./configure and I get:
*** The xine-config script installed by XINE could not be found *** If XINE was installed in PREFIX, make sure PREFIX/bin is in *** your path, or set the XINE_CONFIG enviornment variable to the *** full path to xine-config configure: error: *** You should install xine-lib first ***
Can someone translate this into English for me?
Either set the path to xine-config - which from your description will be something like /home/krikket/downloads/xine-x.y-zz/bin - with export PATH=<that path>:$PATH or export XINE_CONFIG=<that path>
Is there a set location I should be installing things from? (In this case, I just used /home/krikket/donwloads, which is where I dumped the tarball after downloading. Was this a mistake?)
I think /usr/local is about as standard as it gets. -- Vic Ayres