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    Post Installing VLC player from source.

    Upon installing the source of VLC player, this message comes:
    configure: error: Please install GL development package. Alternatively you can also configure with --disable-glx.
    Please help me continue.
    My PC: AMD Phenom II X4 960T 3GHz, 8GB RAM, 500GB WD SATA HDD, 160 GB WD PATA HDD (slave), AMD 880G chipset, AMD Radeon 6450 graphics + 1GB DDR3 video memory

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    Re: Installing VLC player from source.

    why are you installing from source? VLC player is available from the repositories. Type in terminal:

    sudo apt-get install vlc
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    Re: Installing VLC player from source.

    My friend is running Ubuntu 9.04 with a ATI mobility radeon hd 2600 card + 2 gb RAM. VLC player does not work properly when installed through the repos. It displays the video in a new window called 'xvideo' The video output setting is 'opengl'
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    Re: Installing VLC player from source.

    I had this same problem and fixed it by installing libglu1-mesa-dev and mesa-common-dev.

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    Re: Installing VLC player from source.

    It's there in the VLC web site how to install it in Ubuntu I have it go it directly from the repository and it works like a charm.
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    Re: Installing VLC player from source.

    That is an issue with the version of VLC in the repos, you can install a later version from a ppa https://launchpad.net/~kow/+archive/ppa
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    Re: Installing VLC player from source.

    Quote Originally Posted by theluddite View Post
    I had this same problem and fixed it by installing libglu1-mesa-dev and mesa-common-dev.
    +1

    Also try:

    Code:
    sudo apt-get build-dep vlc
    if you haven't already. That will download most, if not all, the packages necessary to build VLC. If ./configure gives you more errors, do a search in synaptic for the *-dev of that package. Here is a link to VLC's wiki instructions for building from source.

    UnixCompile - VideoLAN Wiki

    They helped me.

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