Package installation

coolmego · #1 31st August 2011, 06:04 AM

I have downloaded a tarball and want to install it, please tell me the procedure to do it?

ah7013 · #2 31st August 2011, 06:14 AM

What are you trying to install?

coolmego · #3 31st August 2011, 06:16 AM

i am trying to install vlc-media player FEDORA14..

JamesNZ · #4 31st August 2011, 06:19 AM

In the future, post threads asking for help in another forum such as "General Support", note the heading of this subforum:

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Guides & Solutions (No Questions) Post your guides here. You can also append your comments/questions to a guide, but don't start a new thread to ask a question. Use another forum for that.

To install the software in the tarball, you first have to untar it. This can be done from the GUI (right-click > Extract all) or from the command line (Applications > System Tools > Terminal).

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If the extension of the tarball is "tar.gz" use: tar -zxvf filename.tar.gz

If the extension is "tar.bz2" then use: tar -jxvf filename.tar.bz2

Now your tarball is extracted, change directory to the untarred folder with "cd":

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To change directory: cd filename

In the folder, look for a README or INSTALL file, this might have specific instructions on how to install it. If there is none, then run the following commands to install it:

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./configure         [You may encounter errors here regarding the presence of certain dependencies that must be installed for the software to work, you have to install these before going further.]
make
su
make install

If all goes well, your program should be installed and ready to use! Note that the best way to install stuff is with yum, which will take care of all the deps for you.

EDIT: Again just ahead of me ah7013

coolmego, as mentioned before I recommend you install it with yum. However Dave has put together a tarball of VLC and it's deps, just download the tarball, untar it, and run

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yum -y install *.rpm --nogpgcheck --disablerepo=*

Link: http://dnmouse.org/forum/viewtopic.php?f=3&t=2313

ah7013 · #5 31st August 2011, 06:21 AM

To install vlc, instead of downloading the tarball and having to compile from source, try the package from rpmfusion. This should do it.

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su -c 'yum localinstall --nogpgcheck http://download1.rpmfusion.org/free/fedora/rpmfusion-free-release-stable.noarch.rpm http://download1.rpmfusion.org/nonfree/fedora/rpmfusion-nonfree-release-stable.noarch.rpm'

then

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su -c 'yum install vlc'

JamesNZ · #6 31st August 2011, 06:28 AM

Hmmm, just tried that link to Dave's vlc package and it wasn't there.....

EDIT: http://www.dnmouse.org/autoten/fedor...e-install.html

coolmego · #7 31st August 2011, 06:29 AM

Firstly sorry for posting in wrong forum..won't happen again..
After typing ./configure it shows the following error :

"configure: error: in `/usr/tmp/my_files/vlc-1.1.9':
configure: error: no acceptable C compiler found in $PATH
See `config.log' for more details
"

ah7013 · #8 31st August 2011, 06:30 AM

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Originally Posted by JamesNZ

EDIT: Again just ahead of me ah7013

Not again

---------- Post added at 05:30 PM ---------- Previous post was at 05:29 PM ----------

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Originally Posted by coolmego

Firstly sorry for posting in wrong forum..won't happen again..
After typing ./configure it shows the following error :

"configure: error: in `/usr/tmp/my_files/vlc-1.1.9':
configure: error: no acceptable C compiler found in $PATH
See `config.log' for more details
"

Try

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yum groupinstall "Development Tools" "Development Libraries"

Then try running ./configure again. Although I would recommend the package method instead.

coolmego · #9 31st August 2011, 06:33 AM

am installing gcc compiler...will this work??

JamesNZ · #10 31st August 2011, 06:34 AM

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Originally Posted by coolmego

After typing ./configure it shows the following error :

"configure: error: in `/usr/tmp/my_files/vlc-1.1.9':
configure: error: no acceptable C compiler found in $PATH
See `config.log' for more details
"

I think you don't have GCC installed, if you install that it should work.

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