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Mageia 2 beta 3 : up-to-date : 64-bit : GNOME Classic

Mageia 2 is running well on my X51 but until now I have not tried sound. mpg321 downloaded from Sourceforge as a tarball. Extracted, ran configure with --prefix=/usr --libdir=/usr/lib64 and ran into a problem locating libmad; i.e. the script says that libmad is needed. Both the 32bit and 64bit packages are installed and have soft links called libmad.so.0 so I am wondering what to do now. This kind of problem happens again and again when installing from source and I have never seen any explanation for it. Any hints?

I have decided to forget about mpg321 and try to find a way to interact with mplayer -nogui, from within a ruby script. Probably means dealing with pipes.

Did you install devel package for libmad?

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urpmi lib64mad-devel

Also to compile mpg321 I also needed to install some other packages

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urpmi lib64id3tag-devel lib64ao-devel lib64alsa2-devel

Yes, I tried using something like urpmi -a libmad. There was a load of development libraries and a lot of conflicts which caused the install to fail. I shall try your command. Thanks.

Thanks ah7013. That all worked like a charm. mpg321 up and running.