I was unable to make screencasts in wmii using Istanbul. So here’s how I installed xvidcap. Unfortunately I cannot come up with a way for wget retrieval of the sourceball, so some manual labour is needed. Retrieve the sourceball and put it in /tmp. Then follow the instructions below. Also see the snippet for an alias for the make command first.

Note that I put the binaries in /usr/local/stow/xvidcap because the package comes from outside package management. I then use xstow to manage the symlinks in /usr/local/bin.

   1  sudo apt-get install libxml-parser-perl libxmu-dev libglade2-dev libgtk2.0-dev
   2  cd /tmp
   3  tar zxvf xvidcap*.tar.gz
   4  cd xvidcap*
   5  ./configure --prefix /usr/local/stow/xvidcap
   6  make
   7  sudo make install
   8  cd /usr/local/stow
   9  sudo xstow xvidcap

To remove xvidcap follow these steps

   1  cd /usr/local/xstow
   2  xstow -D xvidcap
   3  sudo rm -rf /usr/local/stow/xvidcap