Re: ffmpeg - can different versions be installed on a system?

>   I built deadbeef on my Slackware 14.0 system but had to do a little tinkering
>   with all the files for it as it's a bit outdated. I also happened to find out
>   that the newest version of it does *not* ffmpeg 0.11 and newer as an option,
>   but that supposedly it supports anything older than 0.11.
>
>   Is it possible to have two different versions of something like that on one's
>   system?
>
>   If so, how doesw one do it? I'll use those instructions and put them in the
>   README file of deadbeef in case anyone but me actually wants to build and use
>   that app, heh.

You can put a different location as the PREFIX
i used this method when installing autoconf 2.69 (default in Slackware
14.0) and 2.59 (needed to compile PHP from GIT)

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