DEBIAN Compiling VDR Source Packages
Instead of simply installing the standard binary packages you can instead compile your own packages using Debian packaging tools and sources from the Debian VDR and DVB Packaging Project. This way you get a greater selection and more up to date versions of the VDR packages, plus easy package installation, setup, and if necessary removal.
If you have a budget DVB card and need to use a software decoder plugin such as Xineliboutput-plugin or a seperate hardware decoding device, such as a DXR3 and the Dxr3-plugin; this section may be particularly useful to you.
Both plugins are waiting to be accepted into the Debian repository. In the meantime, you can build the packages yourself using the technique described below. Of course, bear in mind that eventually these plugins will be approved and you will then be able to install them normally using apt.
I have only tested this on Debian Unstable and Ubuntu Dapper. It may not work for older releases.
First read [1] and then follow the instructions below.
- Install svn-buildpackage and its dependencies.
richard@vito:~$ sudo aptitude install svn-buildpackage Password: Reading package lists... Done ...etc...
- Tell svn-buildpackage where to put compiled packages and where to find source tarballs.
richard@vito:~$ echo "svn-override=buildArea=${HOME}/src/debian-vdr/build-area,origDir=${HOME}/src/debian-vdr/tarballs" > .svn-buildpackage.conf
- Setup a folder to do the package building in.
richard@vito:~$ mkdir -p src/debian-vdr richard@vito:~$ cd src/debian-vdr/ richard@vito:~/src/debian-vdr$
- Check out the tarballs. There are alot of them and some are quite large, so this may take a long time.
richard@vito:~/src/debian-vdr$ svn co svn://svn.debian.org/svn/pkg-vdr-dvb/tarballs A tarballs/vdr-plugin-nordlichtsepg_0.8a.orig.tar.gz A tarballs/vdr-plugin-osdtest256_0.1.0.orig.tar.gz A tarballs/vdr-plugin-freecell_0.0.2.orig.tar.gz A tarballs/vdr-plugin-xine_0.7.9.orig.tar.gz ...etc...
- Check out the debian build scripts.
richard@vito:~/src/debian-vdr$ svn co svn://svn.debian.org/svn/pkg-vdr-dvb/vdr/vdr/trunk vdr/vdr A vdr/vdr/debian A vdr/vdr/debian/control A vdr/vdr/debian/config-loader.sh ...etc...
- Start compiling the package
richard@vito:~/src/debian-vdr$ cd vdr/vdr/
richard@vito:~/src/debian-vdr/vdr/vdr$ svn-buildpackage -rfakeroot -uc -us
Imported config directives:
--svn-override=buildArea=/home/richard/src/debian-vdr/build-area,origDir=/home/richard/src/debian-vdr/tarballs
trunkDir: /home/richard/src/debian-vdr/vdr/vdr
trunkUrl: svn://svn.debian.org/svn/pkg-vdr-dvb/vdr/vdr/trunk
dpkg-checkbuilddeps
dpkg-checkbuilddeps: Unmet build dependencies: libcap-dev
Insufficient Build-Deps, stop!
You will very likely see something like this telling you that you need to install dependencies. So do that and retry.
richard@vito:~/src/debian-vdr/vdr/vdr$ sudo aptitude install libcap-dev Password: ...etc...
- If all went well, you should see...
...etc.. build command was successful; binaries are in /home/richard/src/debian-vdr/build-area/. The changes file is: /home/richard/src/debian-vdr/build-area/vdr_1.4.1-1_i386.changes Binary packages: /home/richard/src/debian-vdr/build-area/vdr-dev_1.4.1-1_all.deb /home/richard/src/debian-vdr/build-area/vdr_1.4.1-1_i386.deb /home/richard/src/debian-vdr/build-area/vdr-plugin-sky_1.4.1-1_i386.deb /home/richard/src/debian-vdr/build-area/vdr-plugin-examples_1.4.1-1_i386.deb rm -rf /home/richard/src/debian-vdr/build-area/vdr-1.4.1 richard@vito:~/src/debian-vdr/vdr/vdr$
- Finally install the packages.
richard@vito:~/src/debian-vdr/vdr/vdr$ cd ../../build-area/ richard@vito:~/src/debian-vdr/build-area$ ls vdr_1.4.1-1.diff.gz vdr_1.4.1.orig.tar.gz vdr_1.4.1-1.dsc vdr-dev_1.4.1-1_all.deb vdr_1.4.1-1_i386.changes vdr-plugin-examples_1.4.1-1_i386.deb vdr_1.4.1-1_i386.deb vdr-plugin-sky_1.4.1-1_i386.deb richard@vito:~/src/debian-vdr/build-area$ sudo dpkg -i vdr_1.4.1-1_i386.deb vdr-dev_1.4.1-1_all.deb