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by rezils
06 Jan 2014 17:56
Forum: VLC media player for Linux and friends Troubleshooting
Topic: VLC-2.1.2 - lua error activating the HTTP interface
Replies: 8
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Re: VLC-2.1.2 - lua error activating the HTTP interface

You need to install luac5.1 and change the link of the lua compiler to /usr/bin/luac5.1.
The packages you need should be

lua5.1 liblua5.1-0 liblua5.1-0-dev

Again, you will need then to reconfigure and recompile.
by rezils
06 Jan 2014 12:12
Forum: VLC media player for Linux and friends Troubleshooting
Topic: VLC-2.1.2 - lua error activating the HTTP interface
Replies: 8
Views: 3416

Re: VLC-2.1.2 - lua error activating the HTTP interface

If you have both lua5.1 and lua5.2 installed (more precisely, the packages lua5.1 liblua5.1-0 liblua5.1-0-dev lua5.2 liblua5.2-0 liblua5.2-dev), just change the symbolic link /usr/bin/luac to point to /usr/bin/luac5.1 as below: usr@deb01> ls -l /usr/bin/luac* lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 16 Dec 28 20:37 /...
by rezils
28 Dec 2013 20:50
Forum: VLC media player for Linux and friends Troubleshooting
Topic: VLC-2.1.2 - lua error activating the HTTP interface
Replies: 8
Views: 3416

Re: VLC-2.1.2 - lua error activating the HTTP interface

Thank you! I've just checked and, as you pointed out, I had a mismatch in the Lua compiler and run-time versions. More precisely, I had the dev libraries of the 5.1 version whereas there was a symbolic link for the lua compiler (/usr/bin/luac) to the 5.2 version (/usr/bin/luac5.2). Again thank you v...
by rezils
27 Dec 2013 20:44
Forum: VLC media player for Linux and friends Troubleshooting
Topic: VLC-2.1.2 - lua error activating the HTTP interface
Replies: 8
Views: 3416

VLC-2.1.2 - lua error activating the HTTP interface

Hi everybody, I'm new to the forum so I take this opportunity to greet all the forum members :) I've successfully compiled the VLC-2.1.2 sources on a Debian-testing up-to-date OS but when I try to launch the vlc application with the http interface, I get this error: lua error: Error loading script /...

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