18 Jun
2020
18 Jun
'20
10:44 p.m.
On Thursday 18 June 2020 15:28:46 BorgLabs - Kate Draven wrote:
Hi Kate!
Yes, I do hate building from source, but I can do it; it's just that there is
no single "right" way to do it, so I waste a lot of time futzing with it.
Since I haven't found too much online about similar problems, I would guess
that the problem lies not with the deb packages themselves, or it would have
been hunted down by now; but I could be wrong.
Regarding a purge of settings: Do you mean using "apt-get purge"
or "dpkg --purge"? or do you mean some kind of manual search? My hunch is
that the fault may be there, even though I haven't changed anything (not even
my socks) since about 2006 or so.
Bill
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This is
directed mostly to Nik (since I've heard him mention both Devuan
and VLC); but also to anybody else who might have some inkling what is
causing this issue.
VLC is (or would be) my media player of choice on most of my machines or
devices. I use it on my smartphone, and don't need anything else to play
music, movies, stream videos or radio. (I've tried other media players,
yes, but they are all inadequate by comparison, at least for my own
needs.) So many good things to say about VLC ... until about a year or
two ago.
Ever since Jessie it will start up, but then immediately crashes. I've
gone through looking for conflicts, but nothing obvious jumps out at me.
Any suggestions about where to look, or what might be causing such an
issue?
Bill
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Hi Bill
the only thing I can think of is, purge all settings, config, cache etc.
and try again from the command line. See what it pops out.
If you are up to it, grab the source code and build it. If you get it
working like that, that means the deb package is likely faulty somehow.
Kate