VLC Compilation in Ubuntu.
- Git binary - for getting latest source code:
sudo apt-get install git-core gitk git-gui
- Packages required for building/compiling:
sudo apt-get install autoconf automake libtool libcppunit-dev python-dev libboost-all-dev
Packages required for building vlc:
sudo apt-get install libdbus-1-dev libmad0-dev libavcodec-dev libavformat-dev libswscale-dev liba52-dev libxcb1-dev libxcb-shm0-dev libxcb-xv0-dev libx11-xcb-dev libqt4-dev libgcrypt-dev
- Get vlc source code from git and (Compile existing code)
git clone git://git.videolan.org/vlc.git
cd vlc
./bootstrap
./configure --prefix=/usr --disable-lua --disable-postproc --disable-glx --disable-skins2 --disable-nls
make
- (install code)
make install