[Klug-general] Re: KLUG IRC

[Alan Pope]

On Wed, Jul 26, 2006 at 10:02:28PM +0100, Colin_The_Technician wrote:
> After installing all the required dependencies for Istanbul, about 5
> of them, I now get this error when I try to run it.
> 
> 'You do not have the istximagesrc Gstreamer plugin installed.  This
> comes win the Istanbul package, so please file a bug.'
> 

Now that's interesting. Lets see..

http://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=348576

"Bug 348576 isiximagesrc gstreamer plugin missing"
"Opened by Alan Pope  "

please try this:
$ GST_PLUGIN_PATH=/usr/local/lib/gstreamer-0.10/ istanbul

> I have installed all the GStreamer plugins Synaptic shows me, so how
> do I solve this error and install that plugin if it is included with
> Istanbul.
> 

Email the author? That's what I did :) In fact that's what he suggests you
do on his website. 

He's responded to all my mails in a matter of hours. I'm really getting into
this bug-reporting lark :)

> You know with all the time I have spent trying to install Istanbul I
> could probably have made another how-to screencast via my current
> solution :-)

You have no idea how much time *I* have spent trying to screencast on Linux.
Copping out and using windows won't get it fixed though will it? Filing bugs
might though ;)

> But will continue trying for the 100% GNU/Linux way of
> making them.
> 

Yay! If you get it working - tell me how! :D

Cheers,
Al.