How do I migrate to GStreamer 1.0.5?

[Krzysztof Konopko]

Hi Ian,

I wouldn't recommend messing with yum installed packages and overwriting
them with locally built packages.  This greatly confuses your local
package repository manager.

I usually install locally built packages into my home folder, e. g.
$HOME/opt.  Particularly with GStreamer here's my setup:

1. Get the sources from git repository or a stable packaged version (e.
g. 1.0.5)

2. Configure and build each gst* package as follows (no sudo needed):
If from git, then for the first time:
./autogen.sh --prefix=$HOME/opt/gstreamer-1.0

Else:
./configure --prefix=$HOME/opt/gstreamer-1.0

make -j3 install

Start with gstreamer (core), than go through gst-plugins-base and all
others.

4. Set up the environment
In $HOME/.bashrc:

function gst-dev {

    export PATH=$HOME/opt/gstreamer-1.0/bin:$PATH
    export LD_LIBRARY_PATH=$HOME/opt/gstreamer-1.0/lib
    export GI_TYPELIB_PATH=$HOME/opt/gstreamer-1.0/lib/girepository-1.0
    export PKG_CONFIG_PATH=$HOME/opt/gstreamer-1.0/lib/pkgconfig
}

5. Enjoy
$ gst-dev

Make sure you don't have devel packages installed from yum repository.
I'm not sure whether it would affect your local build but I wouldn't
take the chance.

I also tend to use a separate build folder (quite handy when building
for multiple platforms or creating a distribution package) but I didn't
want to complicate things in the description above.

Kris

On 21/01/13 17:15, Ian Davidson wrote:
> I am using Fedora 18.  Fedora 18 currently has GStreaqmer 1.0.4 in the
> repository.  I have 1.0.4 installed using YUM.
> 
> I have downloaded and extracted the tarballs for Gstreamer-core and
> gst-plugins-base.
> 
> I have run
> 
>     ./configure
>     make
>     sudo make install
> 
> on the gstreamer-core and it seemed to work OK.  If I run
> 
>     gst-launch-1.0 --version
> 
> it reports 1.0.5.  I can run a gst-inspect-1.0 on fakesrc, and that also
> shows 1.0.5.
> 
> When I try to run ./configure on the gst-plugins-base, it fails because
> the latest version of gstreamer I have installed is 1.0.4.
> 
> What step(s) am I missing?
> 
> Ian
> -- 
> --
> Ian Davidson
> 
> 
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