Comment 88 for bug 282939

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Alexey Kotlyarov (koterpillar) wrote : Re: [Bug 282939] Re: gnusound crashes X session immediately on launch (Affects Intrepid, Jaunty, Karmic)

> I downloaded the source code for gnusound-0.7.5 a couple of days ago but
> could not get it to build because I lacked too many source packages it
> depends on, and could not find a list of dependencies.
apt-get build-dep gnusound
might help.

> As I can reproduce the problem on my hardware, I am willing to perform
> some tests if somebody can give me clear instructions how to compile the
> code. After downloading a couple of codec packages I still receive this
> message from "configure":
>
> checking ffmpeg/avformat.h usability... no
> checking ffmpeg/avformat.h presence... no
> checking for ffmpeg/avformat.h... no
> configure: error: *** no suitable file drivers found ***
In general, for something.h, libsomething-dev is needed.