compiling from source

**adult swim** · September 15th, 2008

im building vlc 0.9.2 from source. this is the first time ive compiled and ran into some problems, well not really problems but inconveniences. i keep on having to manually install packages that i already have except they are the -dev version to get ./configure to work. is there a way to get all of the dependencies updated fast that i do not know about?

**Vivaldi Gloria** · September 15th, 2008

Originally Posted by adult swim

im building vlc 0.9.2 from source. this is the first time ive compiled and ran into some problems, well not really problems but inconveniences. i keep on having to manually install packages that i already have except they are the -dev version to get ./configure to work. is there a way to get all of the dependencies updated fast that i do not know about?

I tried compiling vlc 0.9.2 on Hardy a week ago. I failed. I installed all dependencies. I don't remember the exact details but there is a circular dependency so I couldn't install two dependencies at the sime time. I also tried the deb file from here but it also fails.

I suggest you wait for intrepid, we are almost there.

**adult swim** · September 15th, 2008

i finally got it to compile on intrepid. for some reason it wouldnt recognize my libavutil-dev but i flagged that out of the ./configure and it worked.