Mike Morris schrieb: > Compiling is a bit scary for me, as I installed from a repo via synaptic. I > don't understand how a manual compile & install would interact with the > automatic install... on my last box, things got *very* messed up.
> If I decide to brave the compilation, I suppose I should use synaptic to > completely uninstall, and then compile the source? Hello Mike, you can experiment with compiling manually, this doesn't break anything. But the moment you *install* things, you need to be careful. If you need to install additional libraries to your system in order to be able to compile, I'd always first try to do so via synaptic. (typically you need the *-dev package of various libraries to compile). Do you know debian-multimedia (the formal "marrilat-repository")? this is an unofficial debian/ubuntu repository which provides a lot of the things you need for compiling, but which can't be distributed officially because of uncertain legal status (software patents suck) When you *install* your self-compiled Cinelerra, (i.e. when you invoke "make install" as root), you should know that usually this installation happens into /usr/local/.... While the programs and libraries installed via synaptics live in the subdirectories of /usr/... Usually, /usr/local/... overrides /usr/... But there can be exceptions to that rule. Thus, if you want to avoid complications, yes, its a good idea to deinstall the Cinelerra package via synaptics then. If you want to de-install your manually compiled Cinelerra later on, you need to do this manually. Cinelerra installs some binaries at /usr/local/bin/ plus two libraries: /usr/local/lib/libquicktimehv* /usr/local/lib/libmpeg3hv* After removing these and re-installing the synaptics package, you should be back to the previous state again. (But usually, you often need to install additional libraries for the compilation, sometime this is the actual cause of problems experienced later on) hope that helps Cheers, Hermann V. _______________________________________________ Cinelerra mailing list [email protected] https://init.linpro.no/mailman/skolelinux.no/listinfo/cinelerra
