Re: [GnomeMeeting-list] 1394 DV cam not recognized?

[PUYDT Julien <julien puydt laposte net>]

Le jeu 03/07/2003 à 06:22, Georgi Georgiev a écrit :

> I tried to uncompress the source from the deb file (can someone suggest a
> simple tool for undebbing .deb files in case I ever have to do this again,
> because I don't feel like installing dpkg) and then I ran ldd on the
> gnomemeeting executable, but I saw no references to 1394. Try it for yourself:
> 
> $ ldd /usr/bin/gnomemeeting | grep 1394 || echo "Nope, no firewire support"
> Nope, no firewire support

It's not the source you got, it's the files in the archive. And a .deb
is just an ar archive with a fixed structure inside. Just ar -x the
.deb, and you'll get some files, one of which is a data.tar.gz, in which
you'll find the files that get installed.

Snark