all, this is my first technical question to any board other than my LUG mailing list. I used Suse Pro 10.0/10.2 (not connected to Internet) for a year, and have only been using Debian since about April and have only ever installed using apt-get or aptitude, apart from Flash, but that took me two weeks to work out :(
I like Debian becuase of the apt-get :) I now really want a video screen capture tool, and have settled on xvidcap or gvidcap, but I note it doesn't seem to be available from my normal Debian sources. This seemed to be confirmed by the "Xvidcap, mplayer and rte" thread on this list in August. My first research took me to http://www.tldp.org/HOWTO/Software-Building-HOWTO.html (daunting) and a second took me to some instructions at http://wiki.clug.org.za/index.php/ How_do_I_install_a_.deb_file_I_downloaded_without_compromising_dependencies%3F but, detailed though they both were, they still went over my head :( So I have tried another avenue, as follows: Steps taken so far to try to install xvidcap/gvidcap ---------------------------------------------------- 1. Went to project summary page: http://sourceforge.net/projects/xvidcap/ 2. Clicked the files link and chose file to download: http://sourceforge.net/project/showfiles.php?group_id=8153 3. Chose mirror to download from: http://prdownloads.sourceforge.net/xvidcap/gvidcap_1.1.3-p7_i386.deb?download 4. Opened console, su'd to root and tried running dpkg:: [EMAIL PROTECTED]:~$ su - Password: jerry:~# dpkg -i /home/frances/downloads/gvidcap_1.1.3-p7_i386.deb Selecting previously deselected package gvidcap. (Reading database ... 112506 files and directories currently installed.) Unpacking gvidcap (from .../gvidcap_1.1.3-p7_i386.deb) ... dpkg: dependency problems prevent configuration of gvidcap: gvidcap depends on libavcodec1 (>= 1:0.4.8); however: Package libavcodec1 is not installed. dpkg: error processing gvidcap (--install): dependency problems - leaving unconfigured Errors were encountered while processing: gvidcap jerry:~# 5. Did a search to find out where to obtain dependancy "libavcodec1": Google result: http://www.rarewares.org/debian.html Explanatory page: http://www.rarewares.org/debian-info-allpackages.html 6. Added the three recommended sources to /etc/apt/sources.list: ## RareWares/Debian Multi-Media Repository for Unstable deb http://www.rarewares.org/debian/packages/unstable/ ./ ## RareWares/Debian Multi-Media Repository for Unstable - Experimental Staging deb http://www.rarewares.org/debian/packages/experimental/ ./ ## Christian Marillat's Mult-Media Repository for Unstable deb ftp://ftp.nerim.net/debian-marillat/ unstable main (Also added a Debian testing) 7. Ran update and tried apt-cache search for libavcodec1: jerry:~# vi /etc/apt/sources.list jerry:~# apt-get update Ign file: Release Hit http://security.debian.org sarge/updates/main Packages Hit http://security.debian.org sarge/updates/main Release Hit http://security.debian.org testing/updates/main Packages Hit http://security.debian.org testing/updates/main Release Hit ftp://ftp.uk.debian.org sarge/main Packages Get:1 ftp://ftp.nerim.net unstable/main Packages Hit ftp://ftp.uk.debian.org sarge/main Release Get:2 http://www.rarewares.org ./ Packages [33.0kB] Err ftp://ftp.nerim.net unstable/main Packages Unable to fetch file, server said 'Can't open /debian-marillat/dists/unstable/main/binary-i386/Packages.gz: No such file or directory ' [IP: 62.4.17.14 21] Get:3 ftp://ftp.nerim.net unstable/main Release Ign ftp://ftp.nerim.net unstable/main Release Get:4 http://www.rarewares.org ./ Release [89B] Get:5 http://www.rarewares.org ./ Packages [3194B] Get:6 http://www.rarewares.org ./ Release [93B] Fetched 36.4kB in 1s (28.5kB/s) Failed to fetch ftp://ftp.nerim.net/debian-marillat/dists/unstable/main/binary-i386/Packages.gz Unable to fetch file, server said 'Can't open /debian-marillat/dists/unstable/main/binary-i386/Packages.gz: No such file or directory ' [IP: 62.4.17.14 21] Reading Package Lists... Done E: Some index files failed to download, they have been ignored, or old ones used instead. jerry:~# apt-cache search libavcodec1 W: Couldn't stat source package list ftp://ftp.nerim.net unstable/main Packages (/var/lib/apt/lists/ftp.nerim.net_debian-marillat_dists_unstable_main_binary-i386_Packages) - stat (2 No such file or directory) jerry:~# 8. Tried apt-cache search for ffmpeg instead: jerry:~# apt-cache search ffmpeg ffmpeg - multimedia player, server and encoder gstreamer0.8-misc - Collection of various GStreamer plugins libavcodec-dev - development files for libavcodec libavformat-dev - development files for libavformat libpostproc-dev - development files for libpostproc gstreamer0.8-ffmpeg - ffmpeg plugin for gstreamer libavcodeccvs - library to encode decode multimedia streams - runtime files libpostproc0 - postproc shared libraries W: Couldn't stat source package list ftp://ftp.nerim.net unstable/main Packages (/var/lib/apt/lists/ftp.nerim.net_debian-marillat_dists_unstable_main_binary-i386_Packages) - stat (2 No such file or directory) 9. Tried installing ffmpeg: jerry:~# apt-get install ffmpeg Reading Package Lists... Done Building Dependency Tree... Done You might want to run `apt-get -f install' to correct these: The following packages have unmet dependencies: gvidcap: Depends: libavcodec1 (>= 1:0.4.8) but it is not installable W: Couldn't stat source package list ftp://ftp.nerim.net unstable/main Packages (/var/lib/apt/lists/ftp.nerim.net_debian-marillat_dists_unstable_main_binary-i386_Packages) - stat (2 No such file or directory) W: You may want to run apt-get update to correct these problems E: Unmet dependencies. Try 'apt-get -f install' with no packages (or specify a solution). jerry:~# 10. Checked if ffmpeg got installed by looking in folders listed at http://ace-host.stuart.id.au/russell/files/debian/sarge/ffmpeg/Contents-i386 No, the folders are empty. 11. Same website has useful page which looks like I could obtain the ffmpeg and libavcodec1 from there: http://ace-host.stuart.id.au/russell/files/debian/sarge/ffmpeg/ 12. Per instruction at http://ace-host.stuart.id.au/russell/files/debian/, added source to /etc/apt/sources.list: deb http://ace-host.stuart.id.au/russell/files/debian/sarge/ffmpeg ./ At this point I don't know whether to go ahead and try apt-getting from ace-host.stuart.id.au, or whether I should first purge what I installed earlier, or something else? If anyone can help me, then please could you give me precise, exact instructions as to what I should type at the command line, as I'm very new to this :) -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
