libmac for Hoary

[foxy123]

I need mac, which stands for Monkey Audio Codec to use shntool. There are libmac 2 and libmac2-dev in rarewares repository, but it requires libc6, newer that in hoary. As I understand it is not possible to update it. Is there any chance to have libmac and libmac-dev compatible with hoary in backports?

[Slo Mo Snail]

There are no source packages at rarewares so we have to build our own... maybe you can write one of the rarewares guys whether they can start distributing source packages. I wrote one a few weeks ago and got no answer :/

[foxy123]

There are no source packages at rarewares so we have to build our own... maybe you can write one of the rarewares guys whether they can start distributing source packages. I wrote one a few weeks ago and got no answer :/
As I understand they use mac, ported by SuperMMX:
http://sourceforge.net/projects/mac-port/
or
http://supermmx.org/linux/mac/

[xmixahlx]

i'm the RW/D developer - what's the question?

also, RW/D has moved to a Unstable chroot and packages have been recompiled.

so.... try again :)


later

[felix.rommel]

I need mac, which stands for Monkey Audio Codec to use shntool. There are libmac 2 and libmac2-dev in rarewares repository, but it requires libc6, newer that in hoary. As I understand it is not possible to update it. Is there any chance to have libmac and libmac-dev compatible with hoary in backports?

There is a sourceforge project which ported the Windows source into a make friendly source:

http://sourceforge.net/projects/mac-port/

Just install checkinstall so that you can create a deb package.

1. Extract the mac source
2. ./configure
3. make
4. sudo checkinstall

That's it :)

[ariel]

I need mac, which stands for Monkey Audio Codec to use shntool. There are libmac 2 and libmac2-dev in rarewares repository, but it requires libc6, newer that in hoary. As I understand it is not possible to update it. Is there any chance to have libmac and libmac-dev compatible with hoary in backports?


what i did to install libmac and be able to decompress .ape Monkey's Audio Codec files:

- Monkey's Audio Codec (MAC) (formato ape)

add the following repositories in /etc/apt/sources.list

# RareWares Repository - Experimental
deb http://www.rarewares.org/debian/packages/experimental/ ./
# RareWares Repository - Unstable
deb http://www.rarewares.org/debian/packages/unstable/ ./
deb ftp://ftp.debian.org/debian testing main contrib non-free

open synaptic, reload the package lists, search for "monkeys", install, enjoy.
this will install the "mac" utility to compress/decompress wav/ape files.

ps. as you see you will have to upgrade certain libraries (gcc, libstd6) with ones slighly newer. No problems whatsoever showed up in my home pc after i did it.