Re: vlc

[tony mancill <tony@mancill.com>]

David Liontooth wrote:
> What's the story with vlc and the libflac4 dependency?
> This was sorted out on i386 a while back and libflac6 is in place for 
> amd64.

Hi Dave,

Even without the dependency, there is a build problem with the vlc source as 
it exists in the archive.  If you don't mind building it yourself, then you 
can use "apt-get source vlc" and then apply the patch found in the BTS:

    http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=289923

Once you've applied the patch to the Debian source tree, build with 
something like:

    dpkg-buildpackage -rfakeroot -us -uc

I've been running the package for a couple weeks now, and it's stable.

HTH,
tony