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Issue 2364793002: Revert "Uprev libmtp to 1.1.12" (Closed) Base URL: https://chromium.googlesource.com/chromium/deps/libmtp@master
Patch Set: Created 4 years, 3 months ago
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Index: INSTALL
diff --git a/INSTALL b/INSTALL
index 203957d4ebf8e26aedfaae3c1f00698c071caa0d..0ff1ae8d51198668457d8c6f9777c7a7dbbdb6c1 100644
--- a/INSTALL
+++ b/INSTALL
@@ -87,26 +87,16 @@ the same system. When you compile your programs they will typically
bind to the latest version of the shared library. A link to the
latest version is always provided as $PREFIX/lib/libmtp.so.
-libusb support
+libusb Support
--------------
-This package depends on libusb. Get libusb from sourceforge at:
+This package depends on libusb. Get libusb from sourceforge at:
http://www.sourceforge.net/projects/libusb/
-libusb 1.0 and later is preferred for libmtp, but currently also
-older 0.1.x versions of libusb are supported.
-
-
-libgcrypt support
------------------
-
-The MTPZ extension to libmtp requires libgcrypt to be installed.
-
- http://www.gnu.org/software/libgcrypt/
-
-MTPZ support will not be built unless the configure script finds
-libgcrypt.
+On Linux, please use the very latest version you can get, between
+0.1.8 and 0.1.12 a lot of things happened which pertains to
+the udev hotplugging support, see below.
BASIC BUILD PROCEDURE
@@ -214,17 +204,13 @@ If you cannot run hotplugging
If you have a distro without hotplugging enabled try this as root:
- % chmod -R a+w /dev/bus/usb
-
-Or if it's *really* ancient you could try:
-
% chmod -R a+w /proc/bus/usb
You have to do this again every time you unplug/replug your USB cable
or restart the jukebox, every time you quit libnjb and restart it,
etc etc etc an alternative is to run libmtp as root which works just fine.
The problem is to somehow assure that you (ie the current user) always
-has write access to these files.
+has write access on /proc/bus/usb/*
You can find the Linux hotplug project at:
http://linux-hotplug.sourceforge.net/
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