[SWLUG] can anyone help? Installing avi-xmms

[dan]

Telsa Gwynne wrote:

>On Wed, Feb 16, 2005 at 01:10:56AM +0000 or thereabouts, dan wrote:
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>>Hi all
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>>can anyone answer this one for me please? as i have spent a whole day 
>>trying to work this out sorry i am a bit of a noob (i am using fedora 3)
>>
>>[dan at localhost avi-xmms-1.2.3]$ ./configure && make && make install
>>loading cache ./config.cache
>>checking for a BSD compatible install... /usr/bin/install -c
>>checking whether build environment is sane... yes
>>checking whether make sets ${MAKE}... yes
>>checking for working aclocal... found
>>checking for working autoconf... found
>>checking for working automake... found
>>checking for working autoheader... found
>>checking for working makeinfo... missing
>>checking for gcc... gcc
>>checking whether the C compiler (gcc  ) works... no
>>configure: error: installation or configuration problem: C compiler 
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>(I deleted the config.log: this contains much the same information
>which whizzed up the screen, so that you can look through it later.)
>
>The error is this last group of lines. You do not have a compiler
>installed. Compilers are not installed by default on Fedora. You
>have to pick particular options in the install to get them. 
>
>So what is the problem you are trying to solve here? The configure
>error, and then battle on and compile the software; or (looking at
>what you're trying to install and what I know of Fedora), do you
>just want something which will play videos? (DVDs, mpegs, whatever)
>
>As I see it, you have two choices: 
>
>Either install the compiler and probably a lot of other libraries
>too and plod through compiling this. The compiler will be called
>something like gcc-versionnumberhere.i386.rpm on the Fedora CDs.
>
>Or just install something that plays the files in the first place
>(which I assume is what you want to do). If you just want to watch 
>AVI files, there are lots of other choices which are already 
>packaged for Fedora which may (depending on codecs) play them. 
>
>	xine:	http://xinehq.de/
>	totem:  http://www.hadess.net/totem.php3
>	mplayer:http://www.mplayerhq.hu
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>There are packages for Fedora Core 3 for all of these. Because
>of silliness to do with things which are legal in the rest of
>the world but not in America, Red Hat can't mention to Fedora
>users that there are certain sites out there which carry 
>particular software. And typically, the software in question 
>is associated with "multimedia" creation or playback. 
>
>If you look at http://freshrpms.net/ you'll see a long long
>list of packages down the side, and all of those applications
>I mentioned are there. 
>
>Personally, rather than trying to build them (mplayer in particular
>was infamous for giving snotty messages if you used the "wrong"
>compiler), I would just grab totem (if you are using Gnome) or xine,
>and any dependencies, off freshrpms or a similar site. 
>
>Are you using the rpm command itself, or the simpler front-ends
>to it which work out dependencies, such as yum or apt? Or a GUI
>tool of some description? (People keep writing more.) 
>
>Telsa
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thanks for that... i have already grabbed zine and got it working so 
thats good.. however there was some other things i wanted to install 
that do not have rpm's and i seem to be stuck with only them unless i 
can get a compilter working

Dan