Configure and Make <source> -- WAY over my head

[motoburn]

see EDIT below

I'm starting a new post, because this kinda started as a tangent in a Cafe thread. (hope this is the right way to do this.)

1. streaming my .avi collection to the Xbox 360..

http://ushare.geexbox.org/

I have followed the instructions in the link upto the "Building and Installation" part.

I now have in my downloads folder:

moto@moto-DellX410:~/Downloads$ dir
libdlna-0.2.3.tar.bz2 libupnp-1.6.6.tar.bz2 ushare-1.1a.tar.bz2

I just

sudo apt-get install pkg-config

and had gcc already...


It tells me to "Compile uShare by running configure and then make..." I don't have any idea what that means/ how to do that... can anyone help?

I suppose this is not uShare specific?

EDIT

Totally nevermind!

did more google digging and found that I could add

deb [url]http://www.geexbox.org/debian/[/url] unstable main

to my repositories then ran

sudo apt-get install ushare

which was way easier than that tutorial. I should be good... for now

[rfakhrai]

Re: Configure and Make &lt;source&gt; -- WAY over my head

glad it turned out to be in the repos. that's always the safest and easiest way to get the job done.

[Snowhog]

Re: Configure and Make &lt;source&gt; -- WAY over my head

glad it turned out to be in the repos. that's always the safest and easiest way to get the job done.

"..in the repos." needs to be clarified. 'Official' repositories - those available with installation of Kubuntu - are 'safe'. Adding any third-party repository, as was done by the OP (deb http://www.geexbox.org/debian/ unstable main) should be done after careful consideration. Adding an(y) 'unofficial' repository(ies) to your system can at worst, open the door to your system to undesirable consequences: maliciously packaged applications.

Those of us who have been 'around the block a time or two' know this well. Newbies almost certainly don't. The addition of any third-party repository should only be done after you have ascertained that the maintainer is legit, and that the packages there are safe.

Saturday Night Live
Land Shark skit

[knock knock]
'Who's there?'
'Chinese take-out delivery.'
[opens door]
[Land shark eats occupant]

[GreyGeek]

Re: Configure and Make &lt;source&gt; -- WAY over my head

Don't forget to delete that tar file and uninstall any apps you installed to get it to work. You don't need them.

[oshunluvr]

Re: Configure and Make &lt;source&gt; -- WAY over my head

I'm glad you do more research before you went ahead - I didn't really look into that program further than finding it.

As far as your OP - for those noob's with intellectual curiosity...

***NOTE - this is the nearly the most dangerous thing the uninitiated user can do to endanger his system. Not all programmers do a good job and not all programs are meant for your system. If you're a beginner, you might consider a dual boot install or a VM install for testing a new program you want to install this way***

Keeping in mind the above caveat, there are times where you may need something not provided by a repo: The binary install method is usually:

./configure
make
sudo make-install

There is usually a README file that states what dependencies there might be and will usually state any unusual instructions.

IMO: One of the advantages to using a widely popular distro mikelike Ubuntu and it's derivatives is just how much software is directly compiled for us. It's the first reason I switched from my old distro to Kubuntu.

[GreyGeek]

Re: Configure and Make &lt;source&gt; -- WAY over my head

...
Not all programmers do a good job and not all programs are meant for your system.
...

The #1 most common mistake that programmers make is to assume that when they put up a text box to accept user input the user is not going to be malicious, so they blindly accept all user input, which leads to code injection exploits. This can be a problem if the text box is to accept things like an address or a description, where the characters entered can be more than just alpha-numerical.

They rarely limit the number of characters that a field can accept, nor do they use regular expressions to trap out " and ", " or ", " = ", " is ", " null ", " userid " and other terms used in SQL queries.

[oshunluvr]

Re: Configure and Make &lt;source&gt; -- WAY over my head

GG - ty for fixing the typo

[rfakhrai]

Re: Configure and Make &lt;source&gt; -- WAY over my head

glad it turned out to be in the repos. that's always the safest and easiest way to get the job done.

"..in the repos." needs to be clarified. 'Official' repositories - those available with installation of Kubuntu - are 'safe'. Adding any third-party repository, as was done by the OP (deb http://www.geexbox.org/debian/ unstable main) should be done after careful consideration. Adding an(y) 'unofficial' repository(ies) to your system can at worst, open the door to your system to undesirable consequences: maliciously packaged applications.

Those of us who have been 'around the block a time or two' know this well. Newbies almost certainly don't. The addition of any third-party repository should only be done after you have ascertained that the maintainer is legit, and that the packages there are safe.

Saturday Night Live
Land Shark skit

[knock knock]
'Who's there?'
'Chinese take-out delivery.'
[opens door]
[Land shark eats occupant]

thank you for the much-needed clarification.

[motoburn]

Re: Configure and Make &lt;source&gt; -- WAY over my head

Thanks all,

i had uShare kinda working, but still could never see it from my xBox... I dug around a bit and found some posts in the ubuntu forums suggesting that the project was dead or dieing or... dormant. I followed the trails in those posts and found fuppes which will supposedly do what I need without the configuration trouble of uShare. So I went ahead and apt-get remove'd the ushare and its repo.

Thanks for the bit about it being risky to compile/ install source projects and the recommendation to test it in a vm. I will set me up a kubuntu vm tonight and try my hand at the fuppes make/install in there.

[Vistaus]

Re: Configure and Make &lt;source&gt; -- WAY over my head

@Snowhog: With the exception of repo's like for example Kubuntu-PPA and Ubuntu Kernel Team, since those are official community PPA's (with the last one being one that can screw up your system if a new kernel doesn't support your PC, but it's safe from any malicious things).

[Snowhog]

Re: Configure and Make &lt;source&gt; -- WAY over my head

...for example Kubuntu-PPA and Ubuntu Kernel Team, since those are official community PPA's...

KubuntuKubuntuPPAs - Utilizing Kubuntu's PPA Repositories

[motoburn]

Re: Configure and Make &lt;source&gt; -- WAY over my head

update: I gave up on fuppes, I'm not sure what I was missing, but I read the INSTALL text file and followed those instructions but could not get past the ./configure part. So I deleted the download and the extracted directories and tried ushare again. After several hours of frustration last night, I was finally able to sit down with my wife and watch Dexter on the xBox from the kubuntu box

The cause of the failure was traced down to a setting on my Router to enable a DMZ Host (the xbox). I am really not sure what that entails, but after that, my Media share showed right up and we are rolling.
So I now have 1 last thing making my windows partition necessary... My wife's iTunes account, which I have told her not to buy anymore from there, we will find a more cooperative source for her music. I am going to burn/rip her library then be done with Windows!!!

[oshunluvr]

Re: Configure and Make &lt;source&gt; -- WAY over my head

Congrats on your success!

Now..

http://www.psychocats.net/ubuntu/itunes

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Compari...Managers#Linux

[motoburn]

Re: Configure and Make &lt;source&gt; -- WAY over my head

Very cool, thank you. I have used Rhythmbox in ubuntu and loaded most of our lib (mainly mp3 some oog) but we of course couldnt get the iTunes purchases to work. So I found some tutorials on burning them to virtual disc then ripping them (which may not be "allowed" by iTunes, but we paid for em so they are ours! )

[oshunluvr]

Re: Configure and Make &lt;source&gt; -- WAY over my head

Getting rid of the DRM protection is very difficult but can be done. I think you can make one DRM-less copy under new ITunes rules. Even Apple knows it will only be able to do this for a little bit longer.