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how to get xvidcap functioning under porteus
Posted: 01 Dec 2013, 01:50
by francois
I have tried to get xvidcap, a video recording capture program, working under porteus. It is available under slackware:
http://slackware.org.uk/slacky/slackwar ... cap/1.1.7/
Just downloading the package and then turning it into a xzm module does not seem enough. Checking with slackyd for dependencies reports no missing dependencies:
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root@porteus:~# slackyd -d xvidcap-1.1.7
Checking xvidcap-1.1.7-i486-1sl: done.
All packages "xvidcap-1.1.7" checked are ok !
root@porteus:~#
Trying to start it up from command line, I get:
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root@porteus:~# xvidcap
bash: /usr/bin/xvidcap: No such file or directory
root@porteus:~#
Looking at the /src/slack-required, I get :
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atk >= 1.32.0-i486-1
cairo >= 1.10.2-i486-2
cxxlibs >= 6.0.14-i486-1 | gcc-g++ >= 4.5.2-i486-2
dbus >= 1.4.1-i486-1
dbus-glib >= 0.88-i486-1
expat >= 2.0.1-i486-2
fontconfig >= 2.8.0-i486-1
freetype >= 2.4.4-i486-1
gcc >= 4.5.2-i486-2
gdk-pixbuf2 >= 2.23.3-i486-1
glib2 >= 2.28.6-i486-1
glibc-solibs >= 2.13-i486-4
gtk+2 >= 2.24.4-i486-1
lame >= 3.98.4-i486-3sl
libICE >= 1.0.7-i486-1
libSM >= 1.2.0-i486-1
libX11 >= 1.4.3-i486-2
libXau >= 1.0.6-i486-1
libXcomposite >= 0.4.3-i486-1
libXcursor >= 1.1.11-i486-1
libXdamage >= 1.1.3-i486-1
libXdmcp >= 1.1.0-i486-1
libXext >= 1.2.0-i486-1
libXfixes >= 5.0-i486-1
libXi >= 1.4.2-i486-1
libXinerama >= 1.1.1-i486-1
libXmu >= 1.1.0-i486-1
libXrandr >= 1.3.1-i486-1
libXrender >= 0.9.6-i486-1
libXt >= 1.1.1-i486-1
libglade >= 2.6.4-i486-4
libpng >= 1.4.5-i486-1
libxcb >= 1.7-i486-1
libxml2 >= 2.7.8-i486-3
pango >= 1.28.4-i486-1
pixman >= 0.20.2-i486-1
util-linux >= 2.19-i486-1
yelp >= 2.30.1-i486-5sl
zlib >= 1.2.5-i486-4
I know that these are necessary to build from source, could some of them be important for the functioning of the package?
Or is it simply that this is a gtk2+ application as stipulated in the xvidcap-1.1.7-i486-1sl.txt file:
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xvidcap: Xvidcap (GTK2+ Screen Capture Tool)
xvidcap:
xvidcap: Xvidcap is a screen capture enabling you to capture videos off
xvidcap: yourX-Window desktop for illustration or documentation purposes. It
xvidcap: is intended to be a standards-based alternative to tools like Lotus
xvidcap: ScreenCam.
xvidcap:
xvidcap:
xvidcap:
xvidcap:
xvidcap:
Thus maybe running under the gnome enviroment?
Could PPM resolve missing dependencies if instead of using slackware 14.0, it would be using slackware 13.37?
Any clarification or suggestion would be appreciated.
Thanks.
Re: how to get xvidcap functioning under porteus
Posted: 01 Dec 2013, 07:20
by fanthom
a) if you are using 64bit porteus then please download 64bit packages and not 32bit ones
b) you should not use packages from older slackware version as older libs may destroy your current system
c) if you want to use package from older slackware which is not present in current then simply grab a slackbuild for it and compile from sources (sometimes this wont work as code may be simply too old/require additional patches):
http://repository.slacky.eu/slackware64 ... 1.1.7/src/
general slackbuilds HOWTO:
http://slackbuilds.org/howto/
compilation from salckbuilds is very easy (nearly automated).
Re: how to get xvidcap functioning under porteus
Posted: 01 Dec 2013, 16:29
by francois
@fanthom:
I do not get very often to build from source more complicated packages. I need to be more systematic and organized. Your patience is appreciated.
Thanks for the instructions.
Re: how to get xvidcap functioning under porteus
Posted: 16 Dec 2013, 13:37
by Slaxmax
I tested this package in kde4 works fine. No problems with dependencies.
Re: how to get xvidcap functioning under porteus
Posted: 17 Dec 2013, 00:11
by wread
@francois
Try kde4, my xvidcap works flawlessly
Re: how to get xvidcap functioning under porteus
Posted: 17 Dec 2013, 00:56
by wread
My kde4 is not bloated, my footprint says 379.5 MiB/1.1 GiB, what says yours?
Re: how to get xvidcap functioning under porteus
Posted: 17 Dec 2013, 01:18
by wread
Everything is not loaded, otherwise your xvidcap would be functioning ok. Mine does..... 8)
Re: how to get xvidcap functioning under porteus
Posted: 17 Dec 2013, 02:08
by wread
Do as I say and you won't miss it! 8)
Re: how to get xvidcap functioning under porteus
Posted: 17 Dec 2013, 11:41
by wread
Oh!, I see you can do without xvidcap!
Re: how to get xvidcap functioning under porteus
Posted: 17 Dec 2013, 12:06
by francois
@slaxmax and wread:
Do you mean that you did not have to add dependencies at all under kde?
@Peter:
Thanks a lot for that package building lesson. It is much appreciated. Really. I used some similar approach but invoked each dependency thru slackyd instead of looking for them in /usr/lib or /usr/lib64. I imagine that the process of deleting each txz and transforming each package to xzm could be automated. Do you have some script at hand?
Re: how to get xvidcap functioning under porteus
Posted: 17 Dec 2013, 19:51
by Slaxmax
francois wrote:@slaxmax and wread:
Do you mean that you did not have to add dependencies at all under kde?
Exactly
Re: how to get xvidcap functioning under porteus
Posted: 18 Dec 2013, 01:12
by wread
Genau!
Re: how to get xvidcap functioning under porteus
Posted: 19 Dec 2013, 02:48
by francois
wread wrote:Genau!
Ah! Précisément! Je comprends. Merci.
Re: how to get xvidcap functioning under porteus
Posted: 19 Dec 2013, 06:41
by Ahau
Francois,
Did you try re-downloading the package? I just tested it in 2.1 XFCE and it seemed to work fine. I'm wondering if maybe you got a partial download. The error message you got at first, "bash: /usr/bin/xvidcap: No such file or directory" is an odd one, because xvidcap would have to be present in the $PATH before bash would know to call xvidcap from /usr/bin/xvidcap. I've seen this very error when compiling stuff for ARM when I mix binaries compiled for incompatible architectures, which I believe is why fanthom started off his post asking if you were running a 64-bit package on a 32-bit system (or vice versa). This is not a QT dependency issue nor a GTK2 vs 3 issue (xvidcap is a gtk2 program, and gtk2 is included in all editions of porteus).
If re-downloading and installing the package doesn't work, give us the output of the following:
ldd /usr/bin/xvidcap
and
file /usr/bin/xvidcap
ldd is short for "list dynamic dependencies" and will tell us if there are any missing libraries. file will tell us what kind of a file this is, e.g.:
/usr/bin/xvidcap: ELF 32-bit LSB executable, Intel 80386, version 1 (SYSV), dynamically linked (uses shared libs), stripped
As fanthom said, it's better to compile from source against the current system to ensure compatibility. Compiling is not as daunting as it seems at first, and won't require the level of depth that phpro explained above, with looking at each library on an individual basis (that will undoubtedly teach you more about your system and allow you to create smaller and more customized modules but it's not necessary to get started with compiling). I wouldn't start with xvidcap as it's old source code, there's no slackbuild on SBo; the one I found was from alienbob in 2008 and would require patching to work with the newer glib. If there's interest in this package, I could put together a patch for it; I think folks have moved more to recordmydesktop or some other software for screen capture.
Re: how to get xvidcap functioning under porteus
Posted: 19 Dec 2013, 07:41
by fanthom
Porteus gives you a power to organize your modules as you want. unfortunately this ability is it's curse at the same time (which is proven in this and many other threads) as unexperienced users are mixing ARCHs and REPOs then posting on the forum that something doesn't work.
i have an idea for next release: lets get rid of modules totally and stick to installpkg+save.dat. no activate/deactivate and every installatoion done through PPM. this way users wont be able to mess with xzm's and everything will just work like on every other linux distros.