On 7/21/20 12:16 PM, Aneesh Raghavan via arch-general wrote:

On Tue, Jul 21, 2020 at 8:25 AM Dominik Schrempf via arch-general wrote:

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I tried to provide the videosection library in /usr/lib, but that doesn't work. I don't feel comfortable providing the library in /usr/bin. Do you know an appropriate way to deal with such cases? Is it preferable to install the executable in a separate folder alongside the library? For example, /opt/transcribe?

Hello, Although I don't know much about this package and it's libraries, I believe an ideal way to put the libraries together is to have transcribe in a seperate folder with all of the libraries, while there are symlinks in /usr/bin and /usr/lib to the libraries.I hope this helps

That might *work*, but I would not describe it as *ideal*. Dominik, If this library is indeed a plugin specific to the "transcribe" program, it's traditional for programs to have a special plugins directory e.g. /usr/lib/transcribe/ and attempt to load *.so plugins from there. If it's generally usable by other programs, then it would be appropriate to have it in the general-purpose /usr/lib directory. If it's generally usable by gstreamer, then it would be appropriate to put it in the directory /usr/lib/gstreamer-1.0, as specified by: $ pkg-config gstreamer-1.0 --variable=pluginsdir It's not an option to provide the library in /usr/bin, but a usable workaround would be to symlink the binary in /usr/bin but install it in /opt/transcribe/. Check to see if it correctly picks up the right location, though. ;) You might need to create a wrapper script instead, which invokes it without a symlink. You may wish to clarify with upstream if it can use the more customary location. -- Eli Schwartz Bug Wrangler and Trusted User