[users] Videolan client broken on RHEL4 ?

[Dag Wieers]

On Sun, 10 Dec 2006, Tomi Manninen wrote:

> I recently tried to install videolan-client on a box running
> Red Hat Enterprice Linux 4. I used the package from rpmforge:
> 
> 
> http://apt.sw.be/redhat/el4/en/i386/RPMS.dag/videolan-client-0.8.4a-4.el4.rf.i386.rpm
> 
> However, starting the program with "vlc" gives me an almost
> non-operational skinned GUI (OSX lookalike I think) that
> does "nothing". Right clicking on the gui only produces an 
> error in the shell output saying something about not being
> able to create the menu and suggesting to install the
> wxWidgets plugin (I'm sorry about the vague report, I'm
> not at the box right now and the box in question does not
> even have network connectivity...)
> 
> Anyway, trying to look at the problem, it seems to me that
> the package has been compiled without wxWidgets support.
> It does not have libwxwidgets_plugin.so nor the wxvlc
> binary like my home box (with FC5).
> 
> Could someone please check if the videolan-client package
> works on RHEL4 or if it really is broken like I think it is.
> And more importantly, if it's broken, fix it...?
> 
> I would try to rebuild the package myself but like I said
> the box does not (and can not) have network connectivity
> and thus getting all the devel stuff needed to rebuild
> is going to be a pain. 
> 
> And of course I'm in a bit of a hurry too, so please help!

Feel free to tell us how to build vlc 0.8.5 on EL4, or make vlc 0.8.4a 
build using wxwidgets. It would save me a lot of work, I have already 
spend too much time finding a solution.

Kind regards,
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