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Desperately need help ! ..... I need to install Player/Stage ( http://playerstage.sourceforge.net/ ) on Ubuntu 9.10.

Found this, http://curtis-thoughts.blogspot.com/2010/01/install-playerstage-in-ubuntu-910.html ..... but could not get it to work !

Any help is greatly appreciated !

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Brief summary: reported that Stage built on Ubuntu 9.10 but Player failed. asked for error output and noted the standard build steps. The most reliable way to narrow Player failures is to read what the configure script and the compiler/linker actually report: those messages name the missing headers, libraries, or flags that prevent a clean build.

Practical diagnostic workflow (ordered): reproduce the failure and capture the last part of the build and the configure log; search config.log for “error” or “missing” to find which header or library is absent; install the common build tools and any -dev packages for the missing symbols; when libraries are installed in non-standard locations, export CPPFLAGS/LDFLAGS or use pkg-config before re-running configure; consider installing the distribution package or using checkinstall to produce a .deb rather than directly running make install. Example shell commands to inspect and prepare a build environment:

sudo apt-get update
sudo apt-get install build-essential autoconf automake libtool pkg-config checkinstall
grep -iE "error|missing" config.log | tail -n 50

Linker-specific notes and fixes: “undefined reference” messages typically mean the linker either cannot find the library or the wrong library version is being used. Use pkg-config where available (for both cflags and libs), or explicitly set LDFLAGS and CPPFLAGS to point at custom library paths before configure. Avoid installing a broken tree into /usr/local; checkinstall creates an uninstallable package which makes rollbacks easy. When a packaged Player exists for the Ubuntu release, the binary package is usually the fastest, most reproducible route.

Context and expectations: Player/Stage is an older project and dependency mismatches on older Ubuntu releases are common. The two items worth reading first are the configure output (and config.log) and the final compiler/linker error block — they state the exact header or symbol to resolve. Fixes typically fall into three categories: install the missing -dev package, point configure at a non-system library path, or use the distro package.

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Member Avatar for Nick Evan

"but could not get it to work" tells us nothing.
What didn't work?
What are the errormessages you received?

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Hi Nick

I am getting errors while installing player (stage installs well).

I have uploaded the error script for player

Any help is most welcome !

Regards

Arkapravo

Member Avatar for Stefano Mtangoo

what procedures did you follow. The normal I know are
./configure
make
Become super user aka root
make install
I'm used to Mandriva, though I had some Ubuntu and may be will be back soon ;)

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