How to install Videolan in 2.17?

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Firefox · #1 Post by **Firefox** » Wed 18 Jul 2007, 10:39

Hi everyone

I wanted to try Videolan in my puppy217 and downloaded the tar.gz.
I installed it with petget and after a while it reported no errors or missing dependencies. I couldnt fined a desktop or menu item and rox couldnt find it. Is it possible for someone to make a petget package that allows for a simple click of a mouse button.

http//linux.softpedia.com/progDownload/VLC-Download-2608.html

HairyWill · #2 Post by **HairyWill** » Wed 18 Jul 2007, 10:48

seaching the forum for videolan found me this
http://www.murga-linux.com/puppy/viewtopic.php?t=13863

PSI is also a good way to find software packaged for puppy
http://www.murga-linux.com/puppy/viewtopic.php?t=10960

Firefox · #3 Post by **Firefox** » Wed 18 Jul 2007, 11:04

Thanks for the link hairywill, I`ll start downloading shortly its very big!
I tried to get it in PSI by typing vlc then videolan but nothing was found.

HairyWill · #4 Post by **HairyWill** » Wed 18 Jul 2007, 11:34

I've just found "vlc" using PSI
maybe one of the repositories was down. If you downloaded the list again it should show up.

Firefox · #5 Post by **Firefox** » Wed 18 Jul 2007, 11:57

Ok I`ll try PSI again - what search string did you use?.

I tried to download the vlc from dotpups.de but found it impossible to download anything using wget -c in rxvt. The only thing I could use was the built in function that asks to where you want to save but that crapped out after 3 minutes as usual, with file downloaded ok and showing the full byte count but when checked only a few kb had been downloaded.

Somedays nothing works.

HairyWill · #6 Post by **HairyWill** » Wed 18 Jul 2007, 12:18

I searched PSI for "vlc" but the file will be coming from the dotpups.de repository anyway. Maybe the repository is having problems.

Firefox · #7 Post by **Firefox** » Wed 18 Jul 2007, 15:31

I found the vlc in PSI and downloaded it. It had about 10 dropouts during the download but seams to work ok even if difficult to setup. How do you get the fancy graphics screen? All I got was a small box with various menu entries. Anyhow it worked for me so thanks again hairywill.

willhunt · #8 Post by **willhunt** » Wed 18 Jul 2007, 20:40

boy I wish I had knew that I installed the slax gnome dependences and then used my deb installer to install gtkvlc and then off to vlc to dload there latest boy I wish I known it was in there arghhhhhhh

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