Download and Installation Steps for VLC (0.8.6 and above) on UBUNTU 8.04

Lets start...

There are two versions of VLC (the Release version and the Test version which is often knows as Nightly Builds)

STEP - 0a
Get Release VLC source code via Git

$ git clone git://git.videolan.org/vlc.git

or if u want nightly build than
STEP - 0b
Get Nightly VLC source code via Git
To get nightly code you need to edit your "/etc/apt/sources.list" file
and add any of the following lines

For Ubuntu Intrepid I386 (unstable) add the following line to your sources.list:
deb http://nightlies.videolan.org/build/intrepid-i386/arch ./

For Ubuntu Intrepid AMD64 (unstable) add the following line to your sources.list:
deb http://nightlies.videolan.org/build/intrepid-amd64/arch ./

/************ I added this one for my requirement ***********/
For Ubuntu Hardy I386 (stable) snapshot add the following line to your sources.list:
deb http://nightlies.videolan.org/build/hardy-i386 /
/***************************************************************/

For Ubuntu Breezy I386 snapshot add the following line to your sources.list:
deb http://nightlies.videolan.org/build/breezy-i386 /

For Ubuntu Dapper I386 snapshot add the following line to your sources.list:
deb http://nightlies.videolan.org/build/dapper-i386 /

than do

sudo apt-get update
sudo apt-get upgrade

NOTE: if you dont want nightly build than DONOT add any of the above lines, because if you do and then do update or upgrade it will overwrite the old code

STEP - 1

Before bootstraping or configuring VLC first do this

sudo apt-get build-dep vlc
sudo apt-get install autoconf (if not already installed)
sudo apt-get install automake (if not already installed)

STEP - 2
Now goto the respective vlc directory and type in the console following

./bootstrap

STEP - 3a
than do configure (with appropriate parameter/OPTIONS), OPTIONS could be like --enable-release or --enable-mozilla (to enable vlc plugin for mozilla firefox) etc.

./configure --prefix=/usr [OPTIONS]

STEP - 3b
In configure, if it gives error on certain missing libraries than install them, whereas typical missing libraries you may install will be

sudo apt-get install libqt4-dev
sudo apt-get install libXpm-dev

...it actually depends on your configure OPTIONS. Anyway move forward to

STEP - 4
After successful configure step, continue towards 'make'

make

STEP - 5
than login as root password by typing

su

than its password and then type

STEP - 6

make install

Few notes:
If u have configured with --enable-mozilla than libvlcplugin.so would have been made in /usr/lib/mozilla/plugins/ , but you will need to copy it in your firefox and xulrunner plugins directory to correctly configure it, someitmes configuration breaks...

/coldfire

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