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Jo2003 edited this page Apr 29, 2015 · 2 revisions

Howto build vlc-record on Linux (tested on Ubuntu)

Introduction

Since Linux is such a wide field it's impossible to provide you with all possible packages so that you find the version that you need. So what we can do? Of course - make it on your own ;-)

What do we need?

At least we need git, a compiler (gcc with g++), the qt4 dev framework, the libvlc-dev package, make and in addition checkinstall. To get these things on Ubuntu we run:

sudo apt-get install libqt4-dev libx11-dev vlc-nox libvlc-dev build-essential gawk gtk2-engines-pixbuf git

This also will install some additional packages our packages depend on.

Prepare

Create a directory where we'll put the sources of vlc-record. We could make it that way: mkdir -p ~/src

Now we go into the created src folder and check out the vlc-record sources.

cd ~/src
git clone https://github.com/Jo2003/vlc_record.git vlc-record

Build

Go into the source directory and create the make files using the qmake command:

cd ~/src/vlc-record
qmake-qt4 vlc-record.pro

Cause we have the make files, let's start to build vlc-records binary.

make clean
make -j release

Hopefully all went well!

Install

I have prepared scripts that will create the debian package for you. To create the deb package, call following command:

sudo make -f install.mak

After that you'll find the debian package in ~/src/. You can install it through the packet manager e.g.:

cd ..
sudo dpkg -i vlc-record-[version-data].deb

After that vlc-record should be installed. In Ubuntu you can search for vlc-record in DASH. An application shortcut is also created, but you have to add it to the menu at your own.

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