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Latest Updates

The LiVES dynebolic module has been updated with the latest LiVES code

See the downloads page.

LiVES 1.1.6 is out
(15 Nov. 2009)!

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LiVES nominated for an award !

LiVES has been nominated for a Sourceforge Community Choice Award. See the news page for more details.

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This page is for the work-in-progress versions of LiVES. If you are looking for packaged releases (stable or development), please go to the downloads page.

Subversion

As of version 1.0.0, LiVES code was migrated from CVS to Subversion (svn).
There are now two branches of LiVES - the stable version, based on LiVES 1.0.0 with bugfixes, and the development version with the same bugfixes, plus new features added since 1.0.0.

Development version

The development version is the "bleeding edge" for those who like to LiVE dangerously.

The development version can be viewed/downloaded from Sourceforge.

These builds may or may not run or even compile, and if they do they may hang your X server or even worse... mostly it's OK though.

Stable branch

The stable branch is based on the LiVES 1.0.0 code, with any relevant bugfixes backported. It may lack the latest features, but is guaranteed to contain fewer bugs than the development version.
The stable version can be viewed/downloaded from Sourceforge.

LiVES SVN mini HOWTO

For debian/ubuntu users, you will need at least the following packages:
autoconf 2.57 or higher
automake1.9 or higher
libtool
gettext
libgtk2.0-dev
You will also need subversion to check out the code, and CVS is required by the build tools.

Users of other distros will require similar packages


Various other packages are recommended: check the output of "./configure" (below) for more details.

First decide which version you would like to download, development or stable.

Development:
svn checkout http://lives.svn.sourceforge.net/svnroot/lives/trunk/ [dir]

Stable:
svn checkout http://lives.svn.sourceforge.net/svnroot/lives/branches/1.0.0/ [dir]

Replace [dir] here and below with the directory where you would like to download the code to (e.g. lives or lives-stable).

Then:
cd [dir]
./autogen.sh && ./configure --prefix=/usr && make
make install

You probably need to do the "make install" as root (or use sudo). You can replace the "/usr" with wherever you want the subversion version's root to be. For example, /usr/local might be a better choice.

After installing you should run ldconfig, again probably as root, in order to locate the newly installed libraries.

If autogen.sh fails in the development version, try running autogen.sh --verbose

Before running lives, you may need to adjust the values of <prefix_dir> and/or <lib_dir> in ~/.lives if any components are installed in non-standard directories.

Older code

Pre 1.0.0 versions of LiVES can be viewed/downloaded from the CVS repository on Sourceforge. This repository was frozen shortly after the 1.0.0 release.