Installing XINE

[Matthias Saou]

Bill Fink wrote :

> > This is what I did:
> > 
> >   tar -zxvf xine-lib-1-beta12.tar.gz
> >   cd xine-lib-1-beta12
> >   ./configure 
> >   make
> >   su -c "make install"
> >   su -c "/sbin/ldconfig"
> >   tar -zxvf xine-ui-0.9.20.tar.gz 
> >   cd xine-ui-0.9.20
> >   ./configure 
> >   make
> >   su -c "make install"
> >   xine-check
> >   xine enterthematrix_020503_osiris320.mov
> 
> It's even easier than that to build xine from source:
> 
> 	rpm -ta xine-lib-1-beta12.tar.gz
> 	rpm -U /usr/src/rpm/RPMS/ppc/libxine1-1_beta12-1.ppc.rpm
> 	/usr/src/rpm/RPMS/ppc/libxine1-devel-1_beta12-1.ppc.rpm rpm -ta
> 	xine-ui-0.9.21.tar.gz rpm -U
> 	/usr/src/rpm/RPMS/ppc/xine-ui-0.9.21-1.ppc.rpm

Alright, this is by far the best "installing from sources" method, but
still. I'll be quite partial on this, but I just want to mention some
reasons for installing from binary packages :

- You keep your system cleaner, easier to manage
- Upgrading to the next version is much easier, no old libs in the way
- Changed configuration files are automatically saved (n/a with xine)
- You usually get something "known to work"
- You usually get support for useful extra features (faad2, xvid, flac...)
- You usually get better system integration (init script, menu entry)
- You usually get apt/yum support for lightening quick installs! ;-)

And there are many others IMHO.

Matthias

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