[gst-devel] clean gstreamer installation

[Eric Zhang]

Hi, gstreamer-devel:

    Yeah, this is correct. Thanks, David.

Eric Zhang

2008/8/26 David Schleef <ds at schleef.org>

> On Tue, Aug 26, 2008 at 10:10:39AM +0800, Eric Zhang wrote:
> >     So, I have to download the latest source package, compile and
> > install them with `--prefix=/usr'. This will overwrite the older
> > gstreamer files  and though it's not graceful but it works.
>
> It is not necessary to do this.  The default install to /usr/local
> will happily coexist with the installation in /usr.  Set the
> following environment variables to use libraries, etc., in /usr/local:
>
>  LD_LIBRARY_PATH=/usr/local/lib
>  PKG_CONFIG_PATH=/usr/local/lib/pkgconfig
>  PATH=/usr/local/bin:$PATH
>
> Overwriting files in /usr is a sure way to screw up your entire
> system.
>
>
>
> dave...
>
>
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