[gst-devel] how to cleanly re-install gstreamer? Help!!

Wed Sep 9 11:19:38 CEST 2009

On Wed, Sep 9, 2009 at 2:59 AM, Yiliang Bao<yiliangb at gmail.com> wrote:
>
> Hi Sean,
>
> Thanks a lot for the detailed explanation.
>
> I tried both options. Here is what I encountered. Some of information might
> be helpful for other people who gets into the same trouble.
>
> What I did -->
>
> Originally I installed all the packages using "apt-get ****" from command
> line. So they should be official releases. I upgraded gstreamer by compiling
> the latest source, it worked fine after resolving some library issues. After
> I ran ./configure for the latest base plugin package before I ran make and
> install, I found that all the old plugins (almost) were gone. I was able to
> resolve most dependencies by installing the development libraries
> (libXXX-dev) except for 4 plugins related to header files. After I installed
> the base set, I moved on to the good set, and found more problems. I
> patiently tried to solve all the library related dependency issues, but was
> left with more plugins that could not be built because of header file
> related issues.
>
> After I finished upgrading base and good set. I tried to construct some
> pipelines with plugins already installed after my best efforts mentioned
> above, but no luck. These pipelines that were working previously no longer
> worked.
>
> 1. Reinstall the old packages from package manager
>
> After I messed up with gstreamer, I tried to install the old packages using
> "apt-get" command, but it said all the packages are the latest, even though
> I knew most plugins were already removed.

You could just use "aptitude reinstall" (I think even apt-get has a
reinstall command). That will put a new copy of the package on top of
the old one. Not sure if it purges it first, but in this case it
shouldn't matter.

>
> So this option seems to have some problem.
>
> 2. Continue compiling from source
>
> After wasting quite some time, I decided to move ahead with other packages
> by ignoring these plugins that I had no idea how to resolve the issues.
> Resolving library related dependency issues was rather tedious, but it is
> fairly straightforward. I just tried to find the development libraries in
> package manager with name similar to that complained in the ./configure
> output.
>
> Finally, I was able to able to install all the packages. Although many
> plugins were left un-installed, gstreamer works fine for the functions I
> tested, and RTSP server is also working now.
>
> Thanks again for all the replies!
>
> Yiliang
>
>
>
> L.R.N wrote:
>>
>> Sean McNamara wrote:
>>> Generally it's not a good idea to switch out a different version of
>>> the GStreamer core under the feet of installed plugins. When you do
>>> that, you should rebuild the plugins.
>>>
>>> I'm assuming you are on Linux since you use Synaptic Package Manager.
>>>
>>> You have two options to recover a working gstreamer installation:
>>>
>>> 1. Reinstall all gstreamer packages from the package manager. You will
>>> lose the ability to use gst-rtsp-server and your compiled gstreamer
>>> core will be overwritten with what's in the package manager. Figuring
>>> out the names of every gstreamer package in order to reinstall them is
>>> a question you should ask to your Linux distribution support channel.
>>>
>>> 2. Compile all the desired gstreamer plugins from source. This will
>>> overwrite any plugins with the same names from the package manager.
>>> Also, if you ever allow your package manager to apply a software
>>> "update" to your gstreamer packages, it will happily overwrite your
>>> work. To prevent that, you may want to place a "hold" on these
>>> packages to indicate they should not be upgraded. Again, a question
>>> for your distribution support. For this option you'll also need the
>>> development packages of the plugins' many dependencies. Depending on
>>> how thorough your distribution is, this method could take a lot of
>>> work.
>>>
>>> GStreamer is just a set of files -- shared libraries, mostly. Treat it
>>> as such. A "clean install", intuitively, consists of deleting all the
>>> current files and installing new ones to replace them. If you use your
>>> package manager, it does that automatically and lets you think of it
>>> in terms of "installed" and "uninstalled" (an unnecessary abstraction
>>> for this case). If you compile from source, you're just overwriting
>>> the files that the package manager claims to have "installed".
>>>
>>> -Sean
>>>
>>> On Sat, Sep 5, 2009 at 5:06 PM, Yiliang Bao<yiliangb at gmail.com> wrote:
>>>
>>>> Hi,
>>>>
>>>> I compiled and installed the latest gst-rtsp-server, and updated
>>>> gstreamer
>>>> itself based on the error messages from gst-rtsp-server installation.
>>>> However, after these steps, I could no longer find some plugins like
>>>> mad,
>>>> xvimagesink, v4l2src, etc.
>>>>
>>>> I have tried re-installing the latest versions of all plugin packages. I
>>>> have also tried to remove, then re-install all plugins from Synaptic
>>>> Package
>>>> Manager. Got some plugin, like v4l2src, back, but mad, xvimagesink are
>>>> still
>>>> missing. autovideosink is there, but some pipleine which works is no
>>>> longer
>>>> working. For example:
>>>>
>>>> gst-launch v4l2src device=/dev/video0 ! autovideosink
>>>>
>>>>
>>>>>>>>>> Error messages:
>>>>>>>>>>
>>>> Setting pipeline to PAUSED ...
>>>> ERROR: Pipeline doesn't want to pause.
>>>> ERROR: from element
>>>> /GstPipeline:pipeline0/GstAutoVideoSink:autovideosink0:
>>>> Could not initialize supporting library.
>>>> Additional debug info:
>>>> gstautovideosink.c(373): gst_auto_video_sink_detect ():
>>>> /GstPipeline:pipeline0/GstAutoVideoSink:autovideosink0:
>>>> Failed to set target pad
>>>> Setting pipeline to NULL ...
>>>> Freeing pipeline ...
>>>>
>>>> gst-launch filesrc location=Videos/xyz.avi ! decodebin ! autovideosink
>>>>
>>>>
>>>>>>>>>>>>> Error messages:
>>>>>>>>>>>>>
>>>> Setting pipeline to PAUSED ...
>>>> Pipeline is PREROLLING ...
>>>> ERROR: from element
>>>> /GstPipeline:pipeline0/GstDecodeBin:decodebin0/GstAviDemux:avidemux0:
>>>> Internal data stream error.
>>>> Additional debug info:
>>>> gstavidemux.c(4443): gst_avi_demux_loop ():
>>>> /GstPipeline:pipeline0/GstDecodeBin:decodebin0/GstAviDemux:avidemux0:
>>>> streaming stopped, reason not-linked
>>>> ERROR: pipeline doesn't want to preroll.
>>>> Setting pipeline to NULL ...
>>>> Freeing pipeline ...
>>>>
>>>> Does anyone know why? Is it possible to re-install a clean version of
>>>> gstreamer?
>>>>
>>>> Yiliang
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>>>>
>>
>> Also, it may be worthwhile to erase your plugin cache and let GStreamer
>> regenerate it.
>>
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