mciobanu/mp3diags

Installation on how to compile on debian would be greatly appreciated

Opened this issue · 1 comments

Deleted user commented

I've read great things about this program but trying to have it running on debian overcomes my energy and competence.
Could you please help a little by providing some updated instructions?

Thanks a lot!

mciobanu commented

Hi, first of all, there seems to be an official Debian package. I'm not familiar with Debian, but I wonder if you could use it.

Another approach is to try the Ubuntu package. (I have no idea if that should work.)

Still, I should indeed update http://mp3diags.sourceforge.net/unstable/010_getting_the_program.html, but that would take a significant amount of time, which unfortunately I don't currently have.

So, if you need / want to build from sources, can you try to follow along with what's at the "install from source code" paragraph and let me know what doesn't work?

It's not much, really:

  • Download and unpack the .tgz - it's important to use a 1.5 release, as previous ones use Qt 4, which is deprecated, and I assume a pain to get it working on your system. (Or get the sources from github, it's the same aside from what you see as a "version", after the build works.)
  • Install the dependencies (this is the foggy part, but just try to match what is under "generic" with whatever Debian has)
  • Run ./Install.sh. After it's done, it will ask for the root password to copy the result to /usr/local/bin. You can stop it, or you can just comment out the lines that do this. (An issue here is that I don't check if the build actually succeeded, but well ...)
  • If it failed and you don't know what to do with the error, post here the result and hopefully we'll have some next steps