Problem installing Cinelerra video editing system

[Chris]

On Mon, 2004-10-18 at 19:07 +0100, Ben Edwards wrote:
> Thought I would try to get Cinelerra, video editing package, installed. 
> 
> I have added the following apt-sources mentioned at http://www.ftconsult.com/twiki/bin/view/Cinelerra/Debian
> 
> deb ftp://ftp.nerim.net/debian-marillat/ unstable main
> deb http://www.kiberpipa.org/~minmax/cinelerra/builds/pentium4/ ./

Cinelerra is pretty cool.  I never could figure out how to get it to
edit mpeg2 without re-encoding but other than that it was pretty nice.

It's been a while, I was last on Debian when I had to install it.

1. First install the "alien" package via Synaptic or apt-get.

2. Download the binary i386 RPM from the Cinelerra site.

3. run "sudo alien cinelerra-1.2.1-1.i386.rpm" to convert the RPM to
a .deb package.

4. Install the .deb "sudo dpkg -i cinelerra_1.2.1-2_i386.deb"

5. Now on Debian, there is no shared version of libXxf86vm so you have
to make one (the following is all one line):

sudo ld --whole-archive -shared
-o /usr/lib/libXxf86vm.so.1 /usr/X11R6/lib/libXxf86vm.a

Then you should be able to run cinelerra 

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// Chris