In order to get my Headphones installation working correctly I need to upgrade the version of Lame I am running and I have drawn a blank on how to do this

 

Currently I have Lame 3.98.2 installed via an early installation of the Airplay package. What I need to do though is update this to Lame 3.99.5 apparently in order for some of the Headphones post processing activities to work properly.

 

Now I have downloaded lame-3.99.5.tar.gz and I have moved this to /boot/packages but I think from memory I need to extract and rename to a .tgz file? Not sure about this point. I believe I need to use the installpkg command but currently that returns an error saying the package was not built with 'makepkg'.

 

Can someone please guide me through the steps I need to take in order to update my current Lame from 3.98.2 to 3.99.5?

You can just use this pkg:

http://www.slackers.it/repository/lame/pkg/lame-3.99.5-i686-1cf.txz

 

 

A quick and dirty way of doing this is.. you should have lame-3.98.2-i486-1sl.txz (Maybe it has a differnt file name) in the package folder.

You can rename the new lame-3.99.5-i686-1cf.txz to that file name so airplay thinks that you already have the package and install this new version

Downloaded that thanks. What's the difference between a .txz file and a .tgz file? I have lame-3.98.2-i486-1gds.tgz in the packages folder and the Airplay script uses installpkg as the method to install Lame, I'm not using Airplay at the moment anyway so not to bothered about that package. So can I simply type 'installpkg lame-3.99.5-i686-1cf.txz' ? or do I need to rename the package file to a .tgz?

 

Downloaded that thanks. What's the difference between a .txz file and a .tgz file? I have lame-3.98.2-i486-1gds.tgz in the packages folder and the Airplay script uses installpkg as the method to install Lame, I'm not using Airplay at the moment anyway so not to bothered about that package. So can I simply type 'installpkg lame-3.99.5-i686-1cf.txz' ? or do I need to rename the package file to a .tgz?

 

They're interchangeable. so 'installpkg lame-3.99.5-i686-1cf.txz' will work.

 

I am not too sure what the difference is between the two. I know that is txz has better compression rate than tgz.. and txz is 'newer' pkgs and tgz is 'orginial' pkgs for slackwares.

That seemed to work, many thanks

Forgot to mention this..

 

If you want it to install automatically on boot, you need to put it in /boot/extra/

 

/boot/packages/ is only used for plg files usually.

Ah ok I need to look at this and where it has installed. I had assumed(!) that as there was a Lame version before then whatever startup script was needed would be in place. Better check to see what it does on restart then.

 

 

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