[gst-devel] clean gstreamer installation

[Sachin Pandhare]

Thanks to all for your guidance in this respect.

Point mentioned by David seems to be critical. i had actually made the
mistake of installing it in /usr/lib :(
will correct it.

Sachin

On Tue, Aug 26, 2008 at 2:41 PM, Eric Zhang <nicolas.m.zhang at gmail.com>wrote:

> 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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