I have been trying to move a project I was working on my older machine (Windows) to newer machine usiing Centos - I’m a rabid updater so always the most recent build that day. This is my second attemp at using Synfig, the first attempt was so frustrating I abandoned, and yet I have been unable to find any other suitable software, so I have to get this working for me. Essentially I am animating my choreographies, some of the studies are on youtube and Flickr
I really would like help, and simple step by step if possible.
When at run I enter: Synfig -studio
I get this message and go no further:]
synfig -studio
synfig(6133) [10:35:12 PM] info: Loading modules from /etc/synfig_modules.cfg
synfig: warning: Unable to find module “mod_libavcodec” (file not found)
Nothing to do!
I am looking forward to your reply and am very anxious to get back to work animating and not just troubleshooting the install
There are two binaries with the Synfig package: ‘synfig’ and ‘synfigstudio’. When you write ‘synfig’ you’re calling the command line interface so it is waiting for the input file the output file and some other options. To run the graphical user interface just type ‘synfigstudio’ (without quotes) in your prompt.
Hi alettames,
As CentOS is a rpm based system you should install the binaries we provide form our website.
Please go here and download the rpm version that matches your arquitecture. If the problems persists please let us know.
-G
Thanks, doing the install right now, I guess you can tell that linux is new to me, thank you for using plain language to walk me through, eventually I will get it, I am not ever going back to doing windows, so I really need to do some learning. Most other forums have drowned me in terminology I am just not ready for yet.
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[aletta@localhost ~]$ synfigstudio
synfigstudio: error while loading shared libraries: libgio-2.0.so.0: cannot open shared object file: No such file or directory
sigh
using the entries in the application menu did nothing, but the crash monitor started just fine.
You have to wait a bit for our package expert. He will come back in about 5-6 days.
I’m sorry but we have not tested the packages in all the distributions.
-G
googled and found there are some similar questions and answers.
it seems that your system missing libgio, you can try: open a terminal and su to root user and then
yum install glib2
Reading version lock configuration
Setting up Install Process
Package 1:glib-1.2.10-20.el5.i386 already installed and latest version
Nothing to do
[root@localhost aletta]#
so is there some way to perhaps copy and paste that library to another path/directory ? all or part of it?
Ran a search and found:
file:///opt/synfig/lib/libgiomm-2.4.so
file:///opt/synfig/lib/libgiomm-2.4.so.1
file:///opt/synfig/lib/libgiomm-2.4.so.1.2.0
in opt/synfig/lib/
Not sure if that helps or just muddies the waters.
ing version lock configuration
Setting up Install Process
Package glib2-2.12.3-4.el5_3.1.i386 already installed and latest version
Nothing to do
[root@localhost aletta]#
and just extract it then locate to the bin folder of it, there is a synfigstudio file in it, double click, the Synfig Studio will run if everything is fine.
good luck!
btw, I will try to download centos 6 to test next week.
Originally I downloaded the build CentOs has on it’s repository, when that one had problems, I followed the suggestion on this thread to try the RPM here: synfig.org/cms/en/download/stable.
I did download the tar.bz2 as you suggested and extracted the files into a temporary directory. I did click on the Synfigstudio file, but no improvement. Is there s directory it should be copied or moved to?
Yes, unless there’s a particular reason you have to have CentOS I recommend Fedora 15 as well. It’s a great release - even my tablet worked without me having to compile the WizardPen driver - and runs Synfig Studio beautifully.
At this point it is strictly a matter of poverty, I haven’t a sous for anything new, and prospects while on disability don’t come along very often. So for no I will have to muddle along. It runs everything else smoothly enough on my Lenovo.
