Lost Elements

[Tim-Philipp Müller]

On Mon, 2013-01-28 at 12:24 +0000, Ian Davidson wrote:

Hi,

> My next challenge is to build the ugly plugins (I want to try the
> x264enc).  Should I just be able to run ./configure and make install?

I would recommend against mixing things built from source with packages.
It will lead to problems like you've seen before unless you know what
you're doing.

You should be able to find suitable RPM packages somewhere. Like these
gstreamer1-* packages maybe:

http://download1.rpmfusion.org/free/fedora/releases/18/Everything/source/SRPMS/repoview/letter_g.group.html

Cheers
 -Tim

> On 28/01/2013 12:03, Tim-Philipp Müller wrote:
> 
> > On Mon, 2013-01-28 at 11:41 +0000, Ian Davidson wrote:
> > 
> > > I did the make uninstall of the 3 packages I had installed from source
> > > and that seemed to behave OK.  However, /usr/local/bin still had
> > > gst-inspect-1.0 and so on, and when I tried running gst-inspect, it
> > > still went to /usr/local/bin.  I deleted the 3 files in that folder
> > > and then the system reported that the /usr/local/bin file was not
> > > found when I tried to run gst-inspecrt-1.0.
> > > 
> > > I did a yum reinstall gstreamer1* and that seemed to go OK - but
> > > gst-inspect still wants to run from /usr/local/bin.
> > > 
> > > I did try which gst-inspect-1.0 again, and it
> > > reports /usr/bin/gst0inspect-1.0, but retrying gst-inspect-1.0 again
> > > complains that /usr/local/bin/gst-inspect-1.0 is missing.  If I
> > > specify the full path name, it works as I would expect.
> > > 
> > > Is there some environment variable I must remove?  I don't think that
> > > I have set up any myself.
> > You're saying that there is no more /usr/local/bin/gst-inspct-1.0, but
> > it's still trying to use that when you just type 'gst-inspect-1.0'?
> > There must be some cache then - have you tried logging out and logging
> > back in, or maybe even rebooting?
> > 
> > What does
> > 
> >  ls -l /usr/local/bin/gst-inspect-1.0 
> > 
> > show?
> > 
> > Does /usr/bin/gst-inspect-1.0  work now?
> > 
> > Cheers
> >  -Tim
> > 
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