Installing Gstreamer 1.6.3

[Cole Bush]

Thank you for your help. I definitely messed some things up with this
installation. I should have been more thorough in my research.

Is it possible to recover from this? It seems to have overwritten some of
the system's version of Gstreamer. Can I maybe install gstreamer 1.2.0
again and use "--prefix=/usr" to reset it? Also, I have downloaded
gstreamer-1.8.0 from the website and installed it successfully. I am still
getting the "gst-launch-1.0 returns: "gst-launch-1.0: symbol lookup error:
gst-launch-1.0: undefined symbol: _gst_date_time_type"" error. I haven't
tried too hard to fix this issue yet, but I am wondering if it is worth the
time to fix, or should i just start with a new rasbian image.

For future reference, when I run the command "gst-inspect-1.0 --version" It
returns:
        gst-inspect-1.0 version 1.8.0
        GStreamer 1.2.0
        Unknown package origin
If I installed 1.8.0 correctly, should it say GStreamer 1.2.0? Is that
referring to the system version (which I'm guessing should never change)?

Thanks again for any help,
Cole

On Wed, Mar 23, 2016 at 4:11 AM, Sebastian Dröge <sebastian at centricular.com>
wrote:

> On Di, 2016-03-22 at 19:00 -0400, Cole Bush wrote:
> > I am trying to install gstreamermm for a project I am working on on
> > my raspberry pi 2. The pi has gstreamer 1.2 installed, but
> > gstreamermm requires atleast 1.4.3. So I downloaded gstreamer-1.6.3
> > from http://www.linuxfromscratch.org/blfs/view/svn/multimedia/gstream
> > er10.html and ran the suggested installation commands.
>
> The official website is https://gstreamer.freedesktop.org/ where you
> can find the latest sources. The instructions on the website you found
> are for "Linux from scratch", a manually built Linux distribution.
>
> Installing like that on Raspbian can easily create conflicts with your
> system installation of GStreamer. There should also be newer binaries
> for the RPi available.
>
> > I am now having two problems.
> > 1. gst-launch-1.0 returns: "gst-launch-1.0: symbol lookup error: gst-
> > launch-1.0: undefined symbol: _gst_date_time_type"
>
> Try running ldconfig. This means most likely that your system still
> uses the old libgstreamer-1.0.so.0 instead of the newly installed one.
>
> It can also very well be that /usr/lib/arm* is higher up in the LD
> library path than /usr/lib, in which case ldconfig wouldn't fix it.
>
> Installing GStreamer into /usr/local would've worked for example
> though. You have to be careful when installing things on top of the
> directories meant for the distribution (i.e. /usr, but /usr/local is
> your's).
>
> > 2. it appears gstreamer-1.0 version 1.2.0 is still the primary
> > version. Is there a way to remove 1.2.0 and make 1.6.3 the primary
> > version of gstreamer? When installing gstreamermm it only sees 1.2.0
> > and not the new one.
>
> Install GStreamer packages for your distribution that provide a newer
> version, or install GStreamer and all the plugin modules in a place
> that has higher priority than /usr (e.g. /usr/local). You might run
> into incompatibilities with other applications from your distribution
> then though, and you need to ensure that you compile everything
> correctly for the RPi distribution.
>
> --
> Sebastian Dröge, Centricular Ltd · http://www.centricular.com
>
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