Debian stable repository package incompatibility

[darthpolly]

During a fresh install on a Debian stable partition following the README.md instructions, I found this issues:

None of this packages are found on the stable repository:

apt-get install nodejs
apt-get install npm

Workaround:

# This will install both nodejs and npm from git
git clone https://github.com/joyent/node.git
cd node
./configure
make
sudo make install

Melt libraries outdated

# Installing this way you get MLT melt 0.5.7
apt-get install ffmpeg melt libmlt-dev libmlt++-dev

# Then while trying to compile melted fails throwing
melted_connection.c:262: error: ‘struct mlt_profile_s’ has no member named ‘is_explicit’

Workaround:

git clone git://github.com/mltframework/mlt.git
cd mlt
./configure --enable-gpl
make
sudo make install
sudo ldconfig  # Important before compiling melted

Redis version outdated

# Installing this way you get redis 1.2.6
apt-get install redis-server

# Then while trying to serve caspa, redis throws
Error: ERR unknown command 'subscribe'

Workaround (this one is a little bit uglyer):

# Get and compile last stable
wget http://download.redis.io/redis-stable.tar.gz
tar xvzf redis-stable.tar.gz
cd redis-stable
make
sudo make install
cd utils
sudo ./install_server.sh  # This will ask some data input

Mongo version outdated

This did not caused me troubles but the repo version is 1.4.4 and the production release is 2.4.3

[jmrunge]

Does mlt ./configure or make install required dependencies? Or did you get them installed via failed apt-get? If we are compiling from source everything, we should have a list o dependencies to install via apt-get. This goes for node and mongo too.

[xaiki]

Wrong way.
Use back ports or make them.
sudo make install, is never the right solution.

We need packages for the melted stack.
Libmvcp
Libmelted
Melted

[xaiki]

@jmrunge if you keep top-posting, I'm going to start throwing increasingly big rocks at you.
until it hurts.