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>4.1. <A
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>I am having trouble compiling GStreamer on my LFS installation, why ?</A
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Generally speaking, you have three options, ranging from easy to hard :
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We provide tarballs of our releases on our
<A
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> We also put source tarballs on our own site, at
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> When compiling from source, make sure you specify PKG_CONFIG_PATH correctly
when building against GStreamer. For example, if you configured GStreamer
with the default prefix (which is /usr/local), then you need to
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before building gst-plugins.
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Yes, we currently provide precompiled packages for Red Hat, Debian and Linux Mandrake. </P
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>We provide RPMS for Red Hat through our <A
HREF="http://gstreamer.net/releases/redhat/"
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>Apt for rpm page.</A
> We usually support the last 2-3 releases of Red Hat.
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>GStreamer is already in Debian experimental, so if you are a debian user you should be able to get the Debian packages from there.</P
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>GStreamer is also in Mandrake Cooker so if you are using a recent release of Linux Mandrake you should be able to get GStreamer from there. To learn howto get packages from Mandrake cooker <A
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>For other RPM based distributions we recommend getting the source tarball and doing 'rpm -ta gstreamer-0.X.X' to create rpms. We keep our SPEC file constantly up to date so you should always be able to build GStreamer rpms from a tarball. The SPEC file is aimed at Red Hat however, so there might be some need for you to edit the Requirements list if your distribution name these packages differently.</P
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GStreamer is run on a volunteer basis. The package that are provided are made by non-paid people who do this on their own time. The distributions we support with binaries are the distributions that we have people who have volunteered to make binaries for. If you are interested in maintaining GStreamer binaries for other distributions or Unices we would be happy to hear from you. Contact us through the GStreamer-devel mailing list.
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>I am having trouble compiling GStreamer on my LFS installation, why ?</P
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If you are running LFS our basic opinion is that you should be knowledgeable enough to solve any build issues you get on your own. Being volunteered based we can't promise support to anyone of course, but are you using LFS consider yourself extra unsupported. We
neither can or want to know enough, about how your unique system is configured, to be able to help you. That said, if you come to the #gstreamer channel on irc.openprojects.net we might of course be able to give you some general hints and pointers.
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