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I noticed there were a lot of postings asking how to install VLC on Suse. It took me about 4 days to work out all of the details. I have posted the steps I went though to save the next guy some time. This will probably not work for everyone, and I am sure that there are better ways to do it. The only issue I have noticed so far with this install is that I can not get VLC to use other skins. When I try it crashes.

If you run into dependences that I did not cover there are list of extra librarys you may need at :

http://developers.videolan.org/vlc/

http://download.videolan.org/pub/videol ... 9-fc1/vlc/

Here are the steps :

1.First I wanted to make sure that ALL of the development and multimedia libraries that came with my distribution were installed. To do this
- Start YAST
- Select Install and remove software
- From the drop down menu marked filter select package groups
- If any of the packages under development or multimedia are not checked install them.

2.Install libdvdcss and libdvdplay from : http://developers.videolan.org/

3. Download vlc-binary.tar.gz, redhat9-updates.tar.gz http://www.videolan.org/vlc/download-redhat.html

4.Unzip and untar these files. They are placed in a directory called vlc When I tried to install these files a list of broken dependencies was returned. I installed the following list of files to satisfy all of the dependences.

popt-1.6.4-31.i586.rpm
popt-1.6.4-7x.i386.rpm
desktop-file-utils-0.3.0.cvs20030807-96.i586.rpm
indexhtml-9.1-8mdk.noarch.rpm
freetype-2.1.7-2.athlon.rpm
freetype2-2.1.4-66.i586.rpm
mozilla-nspr-1.4.1-17.i386.rpm
mozilla-nss-1.4.1-17.i386.rpm
Xfree86-compat-libs-4.2.0-187.i586.rpm
popt-1.7-76.i586.rpm

5.When I tried to run the installation again I got an error stating there was a conflict with the existing Mozilla installation. I was using firebird any way so I uninstalled mozilla.

rpm -e mozilla

6.When I ran the installation this time it was successful!!
rpm -U *.rpm

7.Type in vlc at the command line VideoLan started. Now I can use my AAC, MP3, and AVI files!!

8.LESSONS LEARNED : I made this MUCH harder than it needed to be by not reading enough up front. The vlc team did a great job of providing most of the libraries I needed if I had taken the time to look. Also on the VLC redhat download page http://www.videolan.org/vlc/download-redhat.html there is a file called vlc-devel.tar.gz that most likely had many of the files I needed.

I hope this helps..........

The crash is probably caused by an older wxGTK version. Try updating that.

I in stalled wxGTK-gl-2.4.0-52.i586.rpm which required the following :

glib2-2.2.3-27.i586.rpm
gtk-doc-common-1.1-1.1.noarch.rpm
glib-2.3.2-2.athlon.rpm
libglib1.2-1.2.10-11mdk.i586.rpm
glib-devel-2.3.2-2.athlon.rpm
wxGTK-devel-2.4.0-52.i586.rpm
gtk-devel-1.2.10-460.i586.rpm

VLC still crashs when I try to chang skins. The command line retunrs :

> vlc
VideoLAN Client 0.7.0 Bond
[00000197] main interface error: no interface module matched "skins,none"
Segmentation fault

Is there a newer version of wxGTK?

VideoLAN Client 0.7.0 Bond
[00000197] main interface error: no interface module matched "skins,none"
Segmentation fault

This means that the skins plugin wasn't found. No idea why though (maybe you didn't install it or it isn't provided in the rpm packages??).

The crash is a bug in wxWindows. Basically the library doesn't like to be stopped/reinitialized, which is what happened because the skins plugin is not there so vlc tries to restart the wxWindows interface.

I sent a bug report to the wxWindows guys and even provided them with an explanation of what was going on and a work-around fix but they didn't seem interested in fixing this

As the subject says the skins interfaces are not enabled/included in the RPM packages. To get rid of this bug you need to build VLC yourself. This is not that daunting task, if you installed all the devel RPM's with this release. Including tan updated libxml2.

I uploaded new libxm2 RPMS for RedHat and Fedora Core-1 to the testing/contrib directory. Here is the complete link: http://download.videolan.org/pub/testing/contrib/
Use to upgrade: rpm -Uvh libxml2-*.rpm

If you'd like to recompile VLC using RPM's but with skins/skins2 support. All you actually need to do is install the source RPM found here: http://download.videolan.org/pub/testin ... t1.src.rpm
and change the ./configure line the specs file. Replace the --disable-skins2 with --enable-skins and --enable-skins2.

Then type in the SPECS directory: rpmbuild -ba vlc.spec
(on fedora and RH at least and I hope SuSE uses the same RPM version)

On Fedora Core 1 (RH) I had to make two symbolic links to built the mozilla plugin. These are (as root of course):
ln -s /usr/lib/mozilla-1.4.1 /usr/lib/mozilla
ln -s /usr/share/idl/mozilla-1.4.1 /usr/share/idl/mozilla

Make sure you haven't installed mozplugger*.rpm if so move it then to your /usr/lib/mozilla-1.4.1/plugins directory from /usr/lib/mozilla. And now all should be fine and built without errors.

This information should also be valid for SuSE 9 only the mozilla version used could be different, be ware of that and check before you act!!!

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May be somebody can tell me why it does not displayed in my browser (IE 6.0).

It is very important for me to get information from this site.

Sorry if i've choose wrong topic for my question.


Thanks you.

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wtf
I dont want to install a player that tooks 4 hours

I use Linux Sus 9.0 and i have real probs with that ?

Well thats what you get when noone steps up to provide official SuSE packages.

I follow this way (hope it helps):

First I got this files:

a52dec-0.7.4-3.pm.0.i586.rpm libdvdnav-0.1.10-0.pm.0.i586.rpm
alsa-1.0.6-0.pm.0.i586.rpm libdvdplay-1.0.1-73.i586.rpm
faad2-2.0-0.pm.1.i586.rpm libffmpeg0-0.4.8-0.pm.2.i586.rpm speex-1.1.6-0.pm.0.i586.rpm
lame-3.95.1-pm.1.i586.rpm libmpeg2-0.4.0b-0.pm.1.i586.rpm vlc-0.7.2-0.pm.9.i686.rpm
libcddb-0.9.5-0.pm.0.i586.rpm libtheora-0.9_1.0alpha3-0.pm.0.i586.rpm vlc-devel-0.7.2-0.pm.9.i586.rpm
libcdio-0.70-0.pm.0.i686.rpm libdvbpsi3-0.1.4-0.pm.2.i586.rpm libdvdcss2-1.2.8-0.pm.2.i686.rpm
vlc-0.7.2-0.pm.9.i686.rpm

then i updated this files:

speex-1.1.6-0.pm.0.i586.rpm
alsa-1.0.6-0.pm.0.i586.rpm

from the previous versions

then i installed all the files...and it works !!

Fibber

o man- i can not install all of my development packages- there is to many and i don't have a lot of HD space. (8 gb) I got suse professional 9.1
Does anybody know the names of the development packages that i need to install?
thanks
jeremy

after instyalling the 686 rpm and all libraries i dont have a icon in start menu and i tryed to run from shell and here is the info what is wrong please help me:

vaio:~ # vlc
VLC media player 0.8.1 Janus
[00000237] skins2 interface error: Cannot open display
[00000237] skins2 interface error: Cannot initialize OSFactory
Remote control interface initialized, `h' for help

Hello,

I am a simple user in the Linux world and I would like to use the VLC player. I have been trying to install the latest VLC player on a SuSe 9.0 i686 machine in the past 2 days w/o any luck yet...
I got the apt4rpm working, which should make life easier (Wroks great - See here for details: http://linux01.gwdg.de/~pbleser/article ... pt4rpm.php)

FYI, I used the following sites to get the relevant (I hope) RPMs:
This forum (1st one)
http://packman.links2linux.org/index.ph ... n=377&vn=6
http://rpmfind.net/linux/RPM/suse/updates
and few more...

When I use the apt-get install XXX, I get a message that I have the latest version of XXX. Can someone PLS give an advice?

This is the last RPM install screenshot:

> rpm -ivh vlc-0.8.1-0.pm.7.i686.rpm

warning: vlc-0.8.1-0.pm.7.i686.rpm: V3 DSA signature: NOKEY, key ID 27db6f5b
error: Failed dependencies:
arts >= 1.2.1 is needed by vlc-0.8.1-0.pm.7
db1 >= 1.85 is needed by vlc-0.8.1-0.pm.7
freetype2 >= 2.1.7 is needed by vlc-0.8.1-0.pm.7
glibc >= 2.3.3 is needed by vlc-0.8.1-0.pm.7
kdelibs3 >= 3.2.1 is needed by vlc-0.8.1-0.pm.7
libcddb >= 0.9.5 is needed by vlc-0.8.1-0.pm.7
libcdio >= 0.69 is needed by vlc-0.8.1-0.pm.7
libffmpeg0 >= 0.4.9 is needed by vlc-0.8.1-0.pm.7
libgcc >= 3.3.3 is needed by vlc-0.8.1-0.pm.7
libid3tag >= 0.15.1b is needed by vlc-0.8.1-0.pm.7
libmpeg2 >= 0.4.0b is needed by vlc-0.8.1-0.pm.7
libogg >= 1.1 is needed by vlc-0.8.1-0.pm.7
libstdc++ >= 3.3.3 is needed by vlc-0.8.1-0.pm.7
libtheora >= 0.9_1.0alpha3 is needed by vlc-0.8.1-0.pm.7
libvorbis >= 1.0.1 is needed by vlc-0.8.1-0.pm.7
lirc >= 0.7.0cvs20040308 is needed by vlc-0.8.1-0.pm.7
mad >= 0.15.1b is needed by vlc-0.8.1-0.pm.7
ncurses >= 5.4 is needed by vlc-0.8.1-0.pm.7
qt3 >= 3.3.1 is needed by vlc-0.8.1-0.pm.7
udev >= 021 is needed by vlc-0.8.1-0.pm.7
wxGTK >= 2.4.2 is needed by vlc-0.8.1-0.pm.7

Cheers
ER

Hi,


I have some troubles with displaying http://www.buy-internet.narod.ru software site.

May be somebody can tell me why it does not displayed in my browser (IE 6.0).

It is very important for me to get information from this site.

Sorry if i've choose wrong topic for my question.


Thanks you.

Alexandra - DURA!!!!!

wtf
I dont want to install a player that tooks 4 hours

I use Linux Sus 9.0 and i have real probs with that ?

LOL. Have you thought about asking that Kid down the street, .....Could have it all set for you in 3-5 min...(Can't think on how to do something,...get a kid to do it.)

I tried to get VLC compiled on my SuSE 9.3 x64 system. I took these steps:

1. export LDFLAGS=-L/usr/X11/lib64
2. Edit configure and search for "opteron". Remove it. Should look like this then:
elif test "${target_cpu}" = "x86_64"; then
CFLAGS_TUNING=""

3. ./configure
4. make

Then I run in to exactly the following problem:
viewtopic.php?p=39349

As far as I understand the error message, there is no assembler code for the 64Bit platform yet, right?


Felix

For Linux 64Bit users: check out 0.8.4-test1. Compiles without problems!

helo there all...
i just installed 9.3 and was looking for a media player that could handle mov(quicktime), wmv(mediaplayer) and so on..

please bear in mind that im a Linbecile, Lintarded.. a Lidiot... ive truly no clue of how to type crazy letters and numbers to make my computer do stuff, as im a recovering windowholic. im addicted to point and click, and to installers automatically popping up after download with lots of "NEXT" and 'OK' buttons. my mind groans "mmmm install shield" like homer simpson for donuts.

so what do you highly Lintelligent beings suggest i do, and dont say go back to windows, you woudnt tell a junkie to go back to crack... window makes people stupid as it steals your soul and gived the NSA backdoors and junk.

well ok then, i await your guidance and luminescence... thank you

Hi!
ich bin ganz neu im linux...

version: SuSe Linux 10

ich habe versucht den vlc zu installieren

dabei sollte ich libmad installieren.
und dann hab ich noch madplayer installiert.

dabei bekomme ich folgende Fehlermeldung:

*** You must first install libmad before you can build this package.
*** If libmad is already installed, you may need to use the CPPFLAGS
*** environment variable to specify its installed location, e.g. -I<dir>.

was muss ich tun?
wenn ich den madplayer installieren kann, geht sicher auch der vlc, oder

ich hab im libmad-verzeichnis unter <user-name>/bin/libmad-0.15.1b/ ./configure aufgerufen
das lief ohne probleme durch.
jetzt gibt es unter dem verzeichnis ein eintrag: mad.h
aber das macht ja irgendwie keinen sinn, dass diese library direkt in dem verzeichnis angelegt wird.
es sollte doch irgendwo bei /lib angelegt werden oder?

wie kann ich dem libmad sagen, dass es in dem entsprechenden system-verzeichnis angelegt wird und welches ist das?

wenn libmad richtig installiert ist, sollte ich doch auch madplayer und vlc ohne angabe irgendwelcher flags und optionen zu installieren sein, oder?

mfG CHris

Hi!
Now again in english...

I'm the biggest Newbe in Linux ...

Version: SuSe Linux 10

I tried to install vlc.

Then I had to install libmad.
And then I installed madplayer.

but I get following error:

*** You must first install libmad before you can build this package.
*** If libmad is already installed, you may need to use the CPPFLAGS
*** environment variable to specify its installed location, e.g. -I<dir>.

What I have to do?
If I would install madplayer without problems, I could easy install vlc.

I installed libmad the following way:
I unpacked it in <user-name>/bin/libmad-0.15.1b/
and entered ./configure

there were no problems
there is a file: mad.h in this dir
but why is there no entry in /lib

how can I configure a package so that there is a entry in /lib

greetz CHris

Has anyone gotten vlc to install on SuSE 10 (OSS or retail versions)?

I've tried following the previous post but installation still fails due to many
missing dependancies. The latest YaST attempt returned the following unresolved dependancies list:

vlc requires libFLAC.so.4
vlc requires libcddb.so.0
vlc requires libcdio.so.3
vlc requires libcdio.so.3(CDIO_3)
vlc requires libdbus-1.so.0
vlc requires libhal.so.0
vlc requires libmpeg2.so.0

Any help locating / installing these dependancies greatly appreciated.