Get VLC to work under root without compiling

wow such a huge thread for some thing so simple my mind boggles
Mods I posted something similar on on another tread it only had two posts but I just seen this and since its a problem
for most people id thought id repost it in the thread thats most warranted


to enable apps to run in root in ubuntu just recompile i see some people post is there a way to do it another way without recompiling

lol this is linux B**ches welcome to world of compiling dont be so lazy

Code:

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wget -c http://download.videolan.org/pub/vid...0.9.9a.tar.bz2
tar -xvf vlc-0.9.9a.tar.bz2
cd vlc-0.9.9a
apt-get build-dep vlc
./configure --enable-run-as-root
make
make install
apt-get install libvlc-dev libvlc2

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This goes for all apps that dont run root as default the same apply's use the flag --enable-run-as-root


WHOOT WHOOT !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

any problems please post and ill help you out its the proper way to do it forget messing with the hex values

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Originally Posted by ticktack

wow such a huge thread for some thing so simple my mind boggles
Mods I posted something similar on on another tread it only had two posts but I just seen this and since its a problem
for most people id thought id repost it in the thread thats most warranted


to enable apps to run in root in ubuntu just recompile i see some people post is there a way to do it another way without recompiling

lol this is linux B**ches welcome to world of compiling dont be so lazy

Code:

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wget -c http://download.videolan.org/pub/vid...0.9.9a.tar.bz2
tar -xvf vlc-0.9.9a.tar.bz2
cd vlc-0.9.9a
apt-get build-dep vlc
./configure --enable-run-as-root
make
make install
apt-get install libvlc-dev libvlc2

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This goes for all apps that dont run root as default the same apply's use the flag --enable-run-as-root


WHOOT WHOOT !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

any problems please post and ill help you out its the proper way to do it forget messing with the hex values

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Thanks for this, but I already mentioned in my first post that this didn't work for me. Hence I named the title : Get VLC to work under root without compiling
I hope it works for you and others though :)

THIS DOES WORK there two ways of doing things in linux the right way and the wrong way

messing with the program hex values is the WRONGWAY
recompiling with the proper flags and commands is the RIGHTWAY

Did you do apt-get remove --purge vlc

you must remove and rompile and remove any make sure there are no leftover vlc folders or files please with me the output is there are errors after make or make install


This is not an after though nor is it something I found somebody was trying to do and said it worked for them

this work hail rain or snow so in order to help and get this to work please display the output and error's

after you follow the guide whn you do "vlc" in the terminal what's the output ???????????



Info man info This is so important saying"this doesn't work or It doesn't work for me is nonsense we are both using the same distro"


so you have either lacking dependences or there's an error you need to resolve

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Originally Posted by ticktack

wow such a huge thread for some thing so simple my mind boggles
Mods I posted something similar on on another tread it only had two posts but I just seen this and since its a problem
for most people id thought id repost it in the thread thats most warranted


to enable apps to run in root in ubuntu just recompile i see some people post is there a way to do it another way without recompiling

lol this is linux B**ches welcome to world of compiling dont be so lazy

Code:

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wget -c http://download.videolan.org/pub/vid...0.9.9a.tar.bz2
tar -xvf vlc-0.9.9a.tar.bz2
cd vlc-0.9.9a
apt-get build-dep vlc
./configure --enable-run-as-root
make
make install
apt-get install libvlc-dev libvlc2

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This goes for all apps that dont run root as default the same apply's use the flag --enable-run-as-root


WHOOT WHOOT !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

any problems please post and ill help you out its the proper way to do it forget messing with the hex values

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I tryed it your way and im getting this error ??

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--2011-06-18 10:27:29--  http://download.videolan.org/pub/vid...0.9.9a.tar.bz2
Resolving download.videolan.org... 88.191.250.9
Connecting to download.videolan.org|88.191.250.9|:80... connected.
HTTP request sent, awaiting response... 404 Not Found
2011-06-18 10:27:30 ERROR 404: Not Found.

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what can i do ?? many thanks

thanks cgelici,

but qhent is right....is not "geteuid._libc_start_man", but "geteuid._libc_start_main"...

thanx, i would rather go the more command intensive direction since I am learning Linux and it's distros.

I prefer to adding a non-root user and edit the kde menus mannually to run vlc or Chrome as the non-root user...

People should choose whatever they want. I just offered 1 solution... And about the tweak, the only thing that changes is vlc is checking ppid instead of geteuid, it's not a major modification...

Code:

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wget http://download.videolan.org/pub/videolan/vlc/1.1.9/vlc-1.1.9.tar.bz2
tar -xvf vlc-1.1.9.tar.bz2
cd vlc-1.1.9
apt-get build-dep vlc
./configure --enable-run-as-root
make
make install
apt-get install libvlc-dev libvlc2

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thank you very very much!!! i was installed vlc and it didn't work....now it work because the hex change.....thank you!!!!! (sorry for my low english)