Error while installing video-1.0.2.tar.gz -- libavformat in ffmpeg not detected by configure

[Ananda Murthy R S-3]

Hello,

I am trying to install video-1.0.2.tar.gz package in GNU Octave-3.2.2. I get the following error message:

octave:2> pkg install video-1.0.2.tar.gz
warning: creating installation directory /usr/share/octave/packages
configure: error: need libavformat from FFMpeg
the configure script returned the following error: checking for gcc... gcc
checking for C compiler default output file name... a.out
checking whether the C compiler works... yes
checking whether we are cross compiling... no
checking for suffix of executables...
checking for suffix of object files... o
checking whether we are using the GNU C compiler... yes
checking whether gcc accepts -g... yes
checking for gcc option to accept ISO C89... none needed
checking for mkoctfile... mkoctfile
retrieving compile and link flags from mkoctfile
checking for F77_FUNC... yes
checking for SLList.h... no
checking for lo_ieee_nan_value... yes
checking for octave_idx_type... yes
checking for quit.h... yes
checking for octave... octave
checking for OCTAVE_VERSION in Octave... 3.2.2
checking for octave_config_info('canonical_host_type') in Octave... i686-pc-linux-gnu
checking for octave_config_info('SHLEXT') in Octave... so
checking whether ln -s works... yes
checking for ranlib... ranlib
checking for strip... strip
checking for pkg-config... pkg-config
-lavformat -lavcodec -lavutil -lswscale
checking for av_write_frame in -lavformat... no
error: called from `pkg>configure_make' in file /usr/share/octave/3.2.2/m/pkg/pkg.m near line 1240, column 2
error: called from:
error:   /usr/share/octave/3.2.2/m/pkg/pkg.m at line 714, column 5
error:   /usr/share/octave/3.2.2/m/pkg/pkg.m at line 287, column 7

I have installed ffmpeg installed. I have the following files in /usr/lib:

libavformat.so linked to libavformat.so.52.38.0
libavformat.so.52 linked to libavformat.so.52.38.0
libavformat.so.52.38.0

What should I do to correct this?

Thanks for your help.

Anand

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[Søren Hauberg]

ons, 09 09 2009 kl. 05:23 +0200, skrev Ananda Murthy R S:
> I have installed ffmpeg installed. I have the following files
> in /usr/lib:
>
> libavformat.so linked to libavformat.so.52.38.0
> libavformat.so.52 linked to libavformat.so.52.38.0
> libavformat.so.52.38.0
>
> What should I do to correct this?

Hmm, perhaps you don't have the development files (i.e. the headers) ?

In general, I get the impression that the 'video' package is hard to
install as you need the right versions of ffmpeg. This is hard, since
ffmpeg doesn't really make releases (or have that changed?).

Søren


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