[Solved] Cant install mplayer-svn

banshee28 · 2009-04-19 02:05:01

Maybe I am missing something, but I am trying to install the svn for mplayer and getting this error asking me which file to patch.

Any suggestions:

100%[=====================================>] 222,567     86.6K/s   in 2.5s    

2009-04-18 20:52:37 (86.6 KB/s) - `Blue-1.7.tar.bz2.part' saved [222567/222567]

  -> Found no_segfault_configure.patch in build dir
==> Validating source files with md5sums...
    Blue-1.7.tar.bz2 ... Passed
    no_segfault_configure.patch ... Passed
==> Extracting Sources...
  -> bsdtar -x -f Blue-1.7.tar.bz2
==> Entering fakeroot environment...
==> Determining latest svn revision...
svn: Can't connect to host 'svn.mplayerhq.hu': Connection refused
==> Starting build()...
svn: Can't connect to host 'svn.mplayerhq.hu': Connection refused
==> SVN checkout done or server timeout
==> Starting make...
cp: cannot stat `mplayer': No such file or directory
./PKGBUILD: line 38: cd: mplayer-build: No such file or directory
can't find file to patch at input line 3
Perhaps you used the wrong -p or --strip option?
The text leading up to this was:
--------------------------
|--- a/configure.old     2008-11-15 23:27:59.000000000 +0100
|+++ b/configure 2008-11-15 23:28:26.000000000 +0100
--------------------------
File to patch:

Last edited by banshee28 (2009-04-19 17:59:08)

skottish · 2009-04-19 02:32:15

svn: Can't connect to host 'svn.mplayerhq.hu': Connection refused

It looks to me like mplayer's subversion tree is down.

--EDIT--

I just built mplayer from subversion. If the connection was down before, try it again.

banshee28 · 2009-04-19 02:50:18

Does this happen frequently?
Will try again.

Last edited by banshee28 (2009-04-19 02:50:45)

skottish · 2009-04-19 02:52:09

banshee28 wrote:

Does this happen frequently?
Will try again.

It's pretty rare.

banshee28 · 2009-04-19 02:56:19

I am getting the same error. It could be my firewall. Although I am not sure why this would be different than other pkg's that have never had a firewall issue?
I am using yaourt -Sy mplayer-svn to get the pkg.

skottish · 2009-04-19 03:05:03

I'm not sure about the firewall. I did compare my PKGBUILD with the one in AUR (mplayer-svn) and they are slightly different in the svn pull down lines. I don't know if it matters though. The significant part is in the else block:

  if [ -d $_svnmod/.svn ]; then
    (cd $_svnmod && svn up -r $pkgver)
  else
    svn co $_svntrunk --config-dir ./ -r $pkgver $_svnmod
  fi

banshee28 · 2009-04-19 03:24:08

Well, it seems like the firewall was the culprit this time! For some reason this pkg uses port 3690 which was being blocked. Once I opened up that port, it went right through. Not sure why this was diff than others?

I do have 2 more questions:

1) Is it normal for some of these AUR packages to take 2-5 mins to install? They go through thousands of lines and many pages of commands which seems like quite a long time to install a rather small media player?

2) Whats the best way to maintain this and keep it up-to-date? Will it update with -Syu or do I need to install it again? Not sure about the svn setup?

Thanks

EDIT: This also fixed my cairo-doc install problem. Sweeet

Last edited by banshee28 (2009-04-19 03:33:55)

SamC · 2009-04-19 03:33:21

Have you not heard of the concept of "compiling"? 2-5 minutes is quite short, try compiling something like firefox or webkit, those take a while.

banshee28 · 2009-04-19 03:34:52

SamC wrote:

Have you not heard of the concept of "compiling"? 2-5 minutes is quite short, try compiling something like firefox or webkit, those take a while.

Yea that pidgin-light took a while. Just wanted to make sure that was normal. Now I can see it is.

skottish · 2009-04-19 04:15:20

banshee28 wrote:

1) Is it normal for some of these AUR packages to take 2-5 mins to install? They go through thousands of lines and many pages of commands which seems like quite a long time to install a rather small media player?

The mplayer subversion tree as of right now has 2752 files, so the initial download will take a little while. It tries to optimize the code based on your current processor and it does a bit of linking. It does take a while to compile.

banshee28 wrote:

2) Whats the best way to maintain this and keep it up-to-date? Will it update with -Syu or do I need to install it again? Not sure about the svn setup?

Assuming that you didn't delete the build folder, the package will only pull down new files in the build tree, so it won't take as long to download next time. Although, it's pulling in FFmpeg which changes very quickly. The compile times will probably stay roughly the same.

Nepherte · 2009-04-19 09:58:37

You could start disabling features you don't need. That will save you some compilation time. But as said before, 2 to 5 minutes isn't much.

banshee28 · 2009-04-19 12:21:46

Thanks everyone. One more question.

Can I install smplayer so I can have that gui replace mplayers, and still maintain the latest svn of mplayer? Smplayer will not overwrite the mplayer files right?

kensai · 2009-04-19 12:23:07

Nope, totally safe to install smplayer.

banshee28 · 2009-04-19 17:58:39

kensai wrote:

Nope, totally safe to install smplayer.

Thanks

skottish · 2009-04-19 18:02:02

banshee28 wrote:

Thanks everyone. One more question.
Can I install smplayer so I can have that gui replace mplayers, and still maintain the latest svn of mplayer? Smplayer will not overwrite the mplayer files right?

The front-ends for mplayer have nothing to do with mplayer itself. So, you can go a step further in not compiling gmplayer at all. This will save a wee bit of space and not pollute any menus that you may have:

1) add --disable-gui to the configure line

2) remove "http://www.mplayerhq.hu/MPlayer/skins/Blue-1.7.tar.bz2" from the source array and the associated md5sum line.

3) remove "mv ${srcdir}/Blue ${pkgdir}/usr/share/mplayer/skins/default"

4) I don't have the configure patch in my build and it works fine. I know others have had some problems though.

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#1 2009-04-19 02:05:01

[Solved] Cant install mplayer-svn

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