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vlc - VideoLAN Client - multimedia player ChangeLog

Web site:

http://www.videolan.org/vlc/

HOWTO

# VLC 0.8.5
# =========
# Covered here are the binary package for Slackware and compiling and
# installing VLC from source.

# Slackware package
# =================
# The home page for the (unofficial) Slackware package is here:
# http://pallansson.homeip.net/vlc/

# If you have trouble with the download URL below, try here:
# http://downloads.videolan.org/pub/videolan/vlc/0.8.5/slackware/

cd
wget http://mirrors.optralan.com/videolan/vlc/0.8.5/slackware/\
vlc-0.8.5-i686-3.tgz

# Become root to install it
su

test -x /sbin/removepkg && /sbin/removepkg vlc
installpkg ./vlc-0.8.5-i686-3.tgz && rm -f ./vlc-0.8.5-i686-3.tgz

# Become yourself again
exit

# Source
# ======
# If you have trouble with the download URL below, try here:
# http://downloads.videolan.org/pub/videolan/vlc/0.8.5/

# Prerequisites:

cd
test -f installed/vlc-0.8.5.tar.bz2 && mv installed/vlc-0.8.5.tar.bz2 .
test ! -f vlc-0.8.5.tar.bz2 &&
wget http://mirrors.optralan.com/videolan/vlc/0.8.5/vlc-0.8.5.tar.bz2

# Verify tarball w/ md5sum:
echo "16bb5bf87ed94879a8eb7b0ff9b4f16f vlc-0.8.5.tar.bz2" | md5sum -c

mkdir -p -m 0700 src
cd src
find -maxdepth 1 -type d -name "vlc-*" -exec rm -r {} \;
tar xjvf ~/vlc-0.8.5.tar.bz2
cd vlc-0.8.5
test $UID = 0 && chown -R root:root .
./configure
make

# Become root to install it
su

test -x /sbin/removepkg && /sbin/removepkg vlc
make install

# Become yourself again
exit

cd
mkdir -p -m 0700 installed
rm -f installed/vlc-*.tar.*
mv vlc-0.8.5.tar.bz2 installed/