On Wed, 2007-01-31 at 22:38 -0500, Jim Smyth wrote: > I would have to recommend Ubuntu as well. It's pretty easy to setup > and and Synaptic (yes I know Debian has it too) will help greatly when > building Cinelerra. Cinelerra has its own particularly difficult > dependency hunt when building from scratch. Being able to quickly > install those dependencies really helps with the headache you will > already have.
Does Synaptic have "build-depends"? That is a _really_ useful feature of apt-get, if you build from Debian source packages (you need a "src" apt-source for it, so that Apt will understand) Build-depends is supposed to take care of everything if you have the right apt-source lines; the "src" line for Cinelerra and all the prerequisite unofficial apt-sources. One thing that saddens me is that so many users assume that building from source means chasing tarballs on the Internet, or manually resolving dependencies. I think the distros under- advertise their capabilities to help those who build from source. -- Herman Robak _______________________________________________ Cinelerra mailing list [email protected] https://init.linpro.no/mailman/skolelinux.no/listinfo/cinelerra
