Libdvdcss2 on Dapper

[Wafa Hakim]

Hi,

So I finally upgraded from Breezy to Dapper flight 7 today. Mostly 
hitch-free, except for 1 big problem -- how do I install libdvdcss2 (to 
watch dvd's with Xine) on Dapper? I remember it being a fairly 
straightforward process on Breezy, but when I try it using apt-get, i 
get the following error:

Package libdvdcss2 is not available, but is referred to by another package.
This may mean that the package is missing, has been obsoleted, or
is only available from another source
E: Package libdvdcss2 has no installation candidate


When I download the source & try to compile it, this is what I get:

wafa at mindfield:~/libdvdcss-1.2.9$ sudo ./configure --prefix=/usr
Password:
checking build system type... i686-pc-linux-gnulibc1
checking host system type... i686-pc-linux-gnulibc1
checking target system type... i686-pc-linux-gnulibc1
checking for a BSD-compatible install... /usr/bin/install -c
checking whether build environment is sane... yes
checking for gawk... no
checking for mawk... mawk
checking whether make sets $(MAKE)... no
checking for gcc... gcc
checking for C compiler default output file name... configure: error: C 
compiler cannot create executables
See `config.log' for more details.


Config.log turns out to have no more details than what's in the standard 
output anyway. I thought my lack of kernel header files might be the 
problem, but installing those didn't help either -- identical error message.

I'm not very comfortably with dpkg so when I tried that the fact that it 
didn't work is no surprise; I'm sure I was doing something wrong:

wafa$ sudo dpkg -b /home/wafa/libdvdcss-1.2.9/ libdvdcss-1.2.9.deb
dpkg-deb: parse error, in file 
`/home/wafa/libdvdcss-1.2.9//DEBIAN/control' near line 7:
  missing package name

But I checked the control file, & it looks like the package name is there.


There doesn't seem to be a PLF Dapper repository yet. Any ideas?

Thanks in advance,
Wafa.

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