I've decided to change from FC? to debian... I tried debian on a couple
of small platforms, and decided I like it....

But...

I am trying to compile mplayer/mencoder. It wants the XFree86 headers
(-devel stuff.)

How do I get it? What do I tell apt-get?

I can get the source code, but that's 60+ MB. That's not what I am
looking for... All I need is the header files so I can compile against
the libraries.

Scanning through apt-get, aptitude, and dpkg man pages, I can't find any
way to list devel packages.... I know I am missing something very
obvious and simple...

Someone clue me in, please?

Thanks....

On Sun, 11 Sep 2005 20:58:18 -0700, CptDondo <yan@NsOeSiPnAeMr.om>
wrote in alt.os.linux.debian:

> Scanning through apt-get, aptitude, and dpkg man pages, I can't find any
> way to list devel packages.... I know I am missing something very
> obvious and simple...
>
> Someone clue me in, please?

The names of development packages end in -dev.

For your purposes, you may need to install the whole
x-window-system-dev metapackage, or you may need only some of the
dependencies, such as libx11-dev, libxv-dev, etc.

There are binary .debs available for mplayer from unofficial sources,
by the way.


PJR :-)
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CptDondo writes:
> I am trying to compile mplayer/mencoder.

Why not just put "deb ftp://ftp.nerim.net/debian-marillat/ sid main"
in /etc/apt/sources.list and install the unofficial Debian package?
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John Hasler

On Mon, 12 Sep 2005 07:17:37 -0500, John Hasler wrote:

> CptDondo writes:
>> I am trying to compile mplayer/mencoder.
>
> Why not just put "deb ftp://ftp.nerim.net/debian-marillat/ sid main"
> in /etc/apt/sources.list and install the unofficial Debian package?

Beware: I am experiencing problems with those. Linking mplayer with a
certain library from these sources (which, some research on the web has
learnt me, has a rapidly-changing api) gave me a relocation error. But in
case you experience the same problem, Marillat's repository is still
useful for getting the dependencies.

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Frank Van Damme