.DEB package available for Debian/Ubuntu

[speedmax]

Nice work!

It work pretty well.

Max

[grifonas]

Thanks. I'll have a look.

[jtag]

How can I install mencoder for Debian?

# apt-get install mencoder
Reading package lists... Done
Building dependency tree
Reading state information... Done
Package mencoder 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 mencoder has no installation candidate

[jtag]

Working but after few hours of work (the post has about 11pages).
Installed mencoder_1.0.rc2svn20080706-0.1lenny1_i386.deb for Debian and all the dependency from debian-multimedia.org
(mkv is not working)

Thank you,

[no_Legend]

If you add in your config the following comand and the mkv is working:
mencoder_mux_compatible = false

Best regards Robert

[sanelson]

Just wondering... Why the requirement for OpenJDK? I use Sun's JRE, and really have no need for OpenJDK. I know PMS runs fine on Sun's JRE, so why require OpenJDK?

[WorldOfHurt]

Debian have really strict rules on open source/licencing, so I wouldn't be suprised if it just avoids the pain of getting it into the package management system with a non-free component. You can, of course, use whichever JRE you want by being specific with your JAVA_HOME.

[paissad]

Just wondering... Why the requirement for OpenJDK? I use Sun's JRE, and really have no need for OpenJDK. I know PMS runs fine on Sun's JRE, so why require OpenJDK?

Because, in future realease of Debian (squeeze) sun-jre will not be supported in default repositories , but only openjdk ... and even debian developers recommends (almost mandatory) to use open-jdk instead of sun-jre for creating .deb packages that need jre
And even if my .deb package is not yet intended to be in official debian repositories ... i prefer respect the policies

[sanelson]

Just wondering... Why the requirement for OpenJDK? I use Sun's JRE, and really have no need for OpenJDK. I know PMS runs fine on Sun's JRE, so why require OpenJDK?

Because, in future realease of Debian (squeeze) sun-jre will not be supported in default repositories , but only openjdk ... and even debian developers recommends (almost mandatory) to use open-jdk instead of sun-jre for creating .deb packages that need jre
And even if my .deb package is not yet intended to be in official debian repositories ... i prefer respect the policies

I have to admit, I've never tried to create a package before, but Isn't it possible to make the requirement be ANY jre? Take a look at the ca-certificates-java package, for example... : http://packages.debian.org/unstable/ca-certificates-java

Under Dependencies, it says:

Code: Select all

openjdk-6-jre-headless  (>= 6b16-1.6.1-2)
    OpenJDK Java runtime, using Hotspot Zero (headless)
or java6-runtime-headless
    virtual package provided by default-jre-headless, openjdk-6-jre-headless, sun-java6-jre

It doesn't actually require you to have openjdk, sun-java6, and default-jre-headless installed... just one of them... If you are trying to install the package without first having one of these JRE's installed, though, it will install OpenJDK.

This also seems to get around the fact that sun-java6 is not supported by not actually putting a requirement on it specifically. Instead, it puts an optional requirement on a virtual package that's provided by both Sun's JRE as well as OpenJDK.

[Paratoxic]

Works great!