Ronald Bultje wrote: > > Hi, > > On Sat, 2001-12-15 at 04:10, t . wrote: > > On 2001.12.14 15:54 Roger wrote: > > > ARRRGGGHHH! & i just got done installing 1.4 on my mandrake 8.1 box! > > > took me like 6 hours to build & install it all (semi-properly)!! > > This type of thing is getting way too common. > > That's why we have RPMs and .deb packages. If people want to compile > from source that's fine but that'll be harder. That would be fine, but various things get broken and only get fixed in CVS or tarball releases. Some provide ways to build the RPMS yourself, though usually I don't see the instructions for this (extract the .spec file, copy the the tar.gz or whatever to /usr/src/redhat/SOURCES, run "rpm -ba xxx.spec", realize it's looking for a different compressed name than you have sitting in SOURCES, retar/gzip it to the right name, run it again, do an "rpm -Uvh /usr/src/redhat/RPMS/i386/xxx.rpm" ffmpeg for one hasn't had a stable release for some 6 months now, but their CVS tree is perfectly fine (outside of ffserver). -- Bill Eldridge Radio Free Asia bill@xxxxxxx
