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Posted: **05 Sep 2014 01:15**

Compiling vlc on mint 16, used 'apt-get source vlc' to get source. did ./bootstrap, ./configure and make. All worked. Then did make install and run vlc as a normal user:

Got:

VLC media player 2.0.8 Twoflower (revision 2.0.8a-0-g68cf50b)
[0x8b9d0c8] main interface error: no suitable interface module
[0x8a39908] main libvlc error: interface "globalhotkeys,none" initialization failed
[0x8a39908] main libvlc: Running vlc with the default interface. Use 'cvlc' to use vlc without interface.
[0x8a4daa0] [cli] lua interface: Listening on host "*console".
VLC media player 2.0.8 Twoflower
Command Line Interface initialized. Type `help' for help.
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Did a bit of googeling and was wondering if there are other packages I also need to compile (i.e. libvlc).

Ben

Ben

Posted: **06 Sep 2014 17:18**

Seems fine to me.

Posted: **07 Sep 2014 13:25**

LOL, I am afraid your reply is not very useful to me. I was trying to use the GUI. Thought the word failure may of been a clue that all is not fine by ME

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Anyway if anyone else is having a similar problem I fixed it with the following workaround, if anyone has a better solution please let me know.

sudo ln -s /usr/local/lib/libvlc* /usr/lib/
sudo ln -s /usr/local/lib/libx264.a /usr/lib/
sudo ln -s /usr/local/lib/vlc /usr/lib/vlc

Ben

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