From 0221aa50a34ca19475b1c147cfa0967d5048bc26 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Tim-Philipp Müller Date: Mon, 9 Jan 2006 10:47:17 +0000 Subject: README: gst-register is gone. Original commit message from CVS: * README: gst-register is gone. --- README | 18 +++++++----------- 1 file changed, 7 insertions(+), 11 deletions(-) (limited to 'README') diff --git a/README b/README index bf1416df1..f9176fd02 100644 --- a/README +++ b/README @@ -176,24 +176,20 @@ COMPILING FROM SOURCE TARBALLS make to build GStreamer. -- if you want to install it (not required), run +- if you want to install it (not required, but what you usually want to do), run make install -- You should create a registry for things to work. - If you ran make install in the previous step, run - gst-register - as root. - - If you didn't install, run - tools/gst-register - as a normal user. - try out a simple test: - gst-launch fakesrc num_buffers=5 ! fakesink - (If you didn't install GStreamer, again prefix gst-launch with tools/) + gst-launch -v fakesrc num_buffers=5 ! fakesink + (If you didn't install GStreamer, prefix gst-launch with tools/) If it outputs a bunch of messages from fakesrc and fakesink, everything is ok. + If it did not work, keep in mind that you might need to adjust the + PATH and/or LD_LIBRARY_PATH environment variables to make the system + find GStreamer in the prefix where you installed (by default that is /usr/local). + - After this, you're ready to install gst-plugins, which will provide the functionality you're probably looking for by now, so go on and read that README. -- cgit v1.2.3