Thank you for the indepth reply kmf31. That has really helped me a lot, and helped me understand the concept a lot more clearly. I really wish that was in the WIki. I found a daily PPA which has 2.1.0 for Natty, so in the mean time I'll use the PPA, however I am going to try to compile VLC again, bu...
Like I've said before I'm new to the whole compiling thing, and indeed I have failed many times. I think this is like the 10th try. I wish someone could just make a .deb for older versions of Ubuntu. I keep getting the error: make[6]: *** [libavcodec_plugin_la-audio.lo] Error 1 and I don't understan...
I've managed to get past the checking with ./configure and I am able to run "make", however I've ran into an error: /usr/include/libavcodec/avcodec.h:404:0: note: this is the location of the previous definition CC libavcodec_plugin_la-audio.lo audio.c:44:36: fatal error: libavutil/audiocon...
I'm trying to compile VLC 2.0.1 for PeppermintOS 2 which is based on Ubuntu Natty Narwhal (11.04). This is my first time ever compiling anything, so I'm finding it rather difficult. I understand the concept of compiling, and how to compile, I'm just having trouble sourcing all the packages needed. W...