R5u870/Packages

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[edit] OpenSUSE

$ openSUSE10.3 one click install
$ i386 rpm binary rpm
$ x86-64 rpm binary rpm

[edit] Ubuntu

You can grab the packages (for Hardy only!, other versions are old and unsupported) here: http://www.arakhne.org/spip.php?article50

[edit] Debian

Binary packages: you could try either the Ubuntu packages, build from scratch or attempt to make your own packages (see below).

Source packages: Mega-props to Jonny Lamb. Please note that r50 is kinda old. Instructions:

$ sudo apt-get install fakeroot
$ dget -x http://compsoc.dur.ac.uk/~jdl/misc/r5u870-0.0+svn50/r5u870_0.0+svn50-1.dsc
$ cd r5u870-0.0+svn50
$ dpkg-buildpackage -rfakeroot
$ cd ..
$ sudo dpkg -i *.deb
$ sudo modprobe r5u870

For binary packages: possibly steal debian/ directory (and dsc, etc) from http://download.tuxfamily.org/arakhne/pool/ricoh-webcam-r5u870/. Remember to give credit where it's due. :)

[edit] Fedora

Download this Package for Fedora dkms-r5u870-0.11.0-8.noarch.rpm.bz2 , this package compiles on all fedora distributions with linux kernel higher than 2.6.16 (even the latest 2.6.25, Fedora 9)

Installation process

1. Download and extract this file

bunzip2 dkms-r5u870-0.11.0-8.noarch.rpm.bz2 

2. Install this package with yum.

yum install ./dkms-r5u870-0.11.0-8.noarch.rpm --nogpg

3. Start your favorite viewer to see the webcam (ex. tvtime)

tvtime

Package Maintainer for fedora : Naresh <cyan_00391 a@T yahoo d0t co d0t in>

[edit] Gentoo

eBuild and overlay available from: http://code.connectical.com/overlay. Many thanks to Adrian Perez for this. Make sure you use the "contrib" overlay. There is also a probably more up-to-date development branch of the overlay.

[edit] Mandriva

A Mandriva Linux package of this driver is available in the contrib repository as dkms-r5u870.