How to install gst-vaapi on centos 6.4

[Chuck Crisler]

When you start changing GLib and other rather fundamental packages, it is
very easy to trash a system. I don't think that you really can install some
of these packages into protected directories to have multiple versions
active concurrently. Maybe you can get away with it sometimes, but
sometimes you can't. Using a VM takes the risk away. I trashed a CentOS 6.0
VM system by downloading GLib 2.32.x and running config/make/make install
-> dead. I had to re-load from a snapshot and was very happy that I had the
option. It took me 2 minutes.


On Wed, Mar 5, 2014 at 5:01 PM, Alice Wonder <alicewonder at shastaherps.org>wrote:

> On Wed, 2014-03-05 at 16:47 -0500, Chuck Crisler wrote:
> > You should definitely use a VM for this and take a snapshot *PRIOR* to
> > starting and before each step. That way, each time you trash your
> > system (you will several times) you can easily recover.
>
> Couldn't he install in /usr/local and thus avoid trashing the system?
>
> That's what I have done before on CentOS systems when I needed newer
> packages, though not with GStreamer stuff.
>
>
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