How to install on Rocky Linux 8

[jmalmsten]

ok. I have tried following the guides here to install makemkv the "correct" way, as in, not via a flatpak through the software manager. And... as usual with linux... I get stuck on step.. 1. Because nothing on this platform is apparently straight forward (sorry, my mind rants in frustration at times).

I am on Rocky Linux 8. If you ask me why, all I can say is that it's the distro sanctioned by Blackmagic Design, So I can't really change it.

The thing is... I can't use apt. At least, I have found no way to use it. I also can't use Zypper, whatever that is, that's used in the post detailing how to install in opensuse.

So... is it possible to download the things needed and install them... and in that case... how?

If there are instructions for Redhat, I can probably use them, as I understand Rocky is supposed to be based on RedHat (ok "based on" is probably the wrong wording, but that's irrelevant).

At the moment I can usually use the flatpak version but I can't get to the makemkvcon file, so I can't patch my drive that's UHD friendly... So that's why I'm trying to get this working without the flatpak.

[gabiel]

Hello again jmalmsten

Rocky 8 is quite old and I believe that it is unsupported now. That said, I was able to compile makemkv on Fedora 42 installing these dependencies:

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dnf install @development-tools openssl-devel expat-devel ffmpeg-free-devel mesa-libGL-devel qt5-qtbase-devel zlib-ng-devel

I don't know if those packages will be available on Rocky 8 but maybe you are lucky there; and remember to use version 1.17.7 as the newer ones seems to be broken on Linux.

[jmalmsten]

ok. I tried that. And I got...

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~/Downloads/makemkv-oss-1.18.1$ sudo dnf install @development-tools openssl-devel expat-devel ffmpeg-free-devel mesa-libGL-devel qt5-qtbase-devel zlib-ng-devel
Updating Subscription Management repositories.
Unable to read consumer identity

This system is not registered with an entitlement server. You can use subscription-manager to register.

Last metadata expiration check: 1:08:43 ago on Wed 10 Sep 2025 14:21:39 CEST.
Module or Group 'development-tools' is not available.
Error: Nothing to do.

I tried to go ahead anyways. I went to the extracted folder and typed out ./configure and got this:

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~/Downloads/makemkv-oss-1.18.1$ ./configure
configure: loading site script /usr/share/config.site
checking build system type... x86_64-pc-linux-gnu
checking host system type... x86_64-pc-linux-gnu
checking target system type... x86_64-pc-linux-gnu
checking how to print strings... printf
checking for gcc... gcc
checking whether the C compiler works... yes
checking for C compiler default output file name... a.out
checking for suffix of executables... 
checking whether we are cross compiling... no
checking for suffix of object files... o
checking whether the compiler supports GNU C... yes
checking whether gcc accepts -g... yes
checking for gcc option to enable C11 features... none needed
checking for a sed that does not truncate output... /usr/bin/sed
checking for grep that handles long lines and -e... /usr/bin/grep
checking for egrep... /usr/bin/grep -E
checking for fgrep... /usr/bin/grep -F
checking for ld used by gcc... /usr/bin/ld
checking if the linker (/usr/bin/ld) is GNU ld... yes
checking for BSD- or MS-compatible name lister (nm)... /usr/bin/nm -B
checking the name lister (/usr/bin/nm -B) interface... BSD nm
checking whether ln -s works... yes
checking the maximum length of command line arguments... 1572864
checking how to convert x86_64-pc-linux-gnu file names to x86_64-pc-linux-gnu format... func_convert_file_noop
checking how to convert x86_64-pc-linux-gnu file names to toolchain format... func_convert_file_noop
checking for /usr/bin/ld option to reload object files... -r
checking for file... file
checking for objdump... objdump
checking how to recognize dependent libraries... pass_all
checking for dlltool... no
checking how to associate runtime and link libraries... printf %s\n
checking for ar... ar
checking for archiver @FILE support... @
checking for strip... strip
checking for ranlib... ranlib
checking for gawk... gawk
checking command to parse /usr/bin/nm -B output from gcc object... ok
checking for sysroot... no
checking for a working dd... /usr/bin/dd
checking how to truncate binary pipes... /usr/bin/dd bs=4096 count=1
checking for mt... no
checking if : is a manifest tool... no
checking for stdio.h... yes
checking for stdlib.h... yes
checking for string.h... yes
checking for inttypes.h... yes
checking for stdint.h... yes
checking for strings.h... yes
checking for sys/stat.h... yes
checking for sys/types.h... yes
checking for unistd.h... yes
checking for dlfcn.h... yes
checking for objdir... .libs
checking if gcc supports -fno-rtti -fno-exceptions... no
checking for gcc option to produce PIC... -fPIC -DPIC
checking if gcc PIC flag -fPIC -DPIC works... yes
checking if gcc static flag -static works... no
checking if gcc supports -c -o file.o... yes
checking if gcc supports -c -o file.o... (cached) yes
checking whether the gcc linker (/usr/bin/ld -m elf_x86_64) supports shared libraries... yes
checking whether -lc should be explicitly linked in... no
checking dynamic linker characteristics... GNU/Linux ld.so
checking how to hardcode library paths into programs... immediate
checking whether stripping libraries is possible... yes
checking if libtool supports shared libraries... yes
checking whether to build shared libraries... yes
checking whether to build static libraries... no
checking for gcc... (cached) gcc
checking whether the compiler supports GNU C... (cached) yes
checking whether gcc accepts -g... (cached) yes
checking for gcc option to enable C11 features... (cached) none needed
checking for g++... g++
checking whether the compiler supports GNU C++... yes
checking whether g++ accepts -g... yes
checking for g++ option to enable C++11 features... none needed
checking how to run the C++ preprocessor... g++ -E
checking for ld used by g++... /usr/bin/ld -m elf_x86_64
checking if the linker (/usr/bin/ld -m elf_x86_64) is GNU ld... yes
checking whether the g++ linker (/usr/bin/ld -m elf_x86_64) supports shared libraries... yes
checking for g++ option to produce PIC... -fPIC -DPIC
checking if g++ PIC flag -fPIC -DPIC works... yes
checking if g++ static flag -static works... no
checking if g++ supports -c -o file.o... yes
checking if g++ supports -c -o file.o... (cached) yes
checking whether the g++ linker (/usr/bin/ld -m elf_x86_64) supports shared libraries... yes
checking dynamic linker characteristics... (cached) GNU/Linux ld.so
checking how to hardcode library paths into programs... immediate
checking for -objcopy... no
checking for objcopy... objcopy
checking for -ld... /usr/bin/ld -m elf_x86_64
checking for a BSD-compatible install... /usr/bin/install -c
checking whether g++ supports C++11 features with -std=c++11... yes
checking for zlib.h... yes
checking for compress2 in -lz... yes
checking for openssl/opensslconf.h... yes
checking for AES_encrypt in -lcrypto... yes
checking for expat.h... yes
checking for XML_ParserCreate in -lexpat... yes
checking for pkg-config... /usr/bin/pkg-config
checking pkg-config is at least version 0.9.0... yes
checking for libavcodec libavutil... no
configure: error: Package 'libavcodec', required by 'virtual:world', not found
Package 'libavutil', required by 'virtual:world', not found.

and when I go and type make I get...

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~/Downloads/makemkv-oss-1.18.1$ make
make: *** No targets specified and no makefile found.  Stop.

Soooo... am I out of luck?

Rocky 8 is quite old and I believe that it is unsupported now. That said, I was able to compile makemkv on Fedora 42 installing these dependencies:

I am questioning why I feeling stuck to Rocky 8 with every single application I try to use outside of DaVinci Resolve... And to tell the truth. Even with Resolve... I have had to do quite a lot of digging to get things to work. Like sound settings are just borked by default, and I couldn't even change the desktop background without going into what I think is the equivalent of the windows registry of Rocky/gnome.

[jmalmsten]

aaand now I saw that there's a section about the installation of libavcodec.... brb

[jmalmsten]

ok. Now I have done the

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./configure --prefix=/tmp/ffmpeg --enable-static --disable-shared --enable-pic

and the

make install

for ffmpeg. Though, I had to add --disable-x86asm the configure because I lacked something called "nasm"?

It seems like It has installed? At least a lot of things flashed by in the terminal. But... when I go to the oss folder... I try typing "make" as in the instruction. I get...

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~/Downloads/makemkv-oss-1.18.1$ make
make: *** No targets specified and no makefile found.  Stop.
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what am I missing here?

when I try to do ./configure, I still get this:

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[jmalmsten@localhost]
~/Downloads/makemkv-oss-1.18.1$ ./configure
configure: loading site script /usr/share/config.site
checking build system type... x86_64-pc-linux-gnu
checking host system type... x86_64-pc-linux-gnu
checking target system type... x86_64-pc-linux-gnu
checking how to print strings... printf
checking for gcc... gcc
checking whether the C compiler works... yes
checking for C compiler default output file name... a.out
checking for suffix of executables... 
checking whether we are cross compiling... no
checking for suffix of object files... o
checking whether the compiler supports GNU C... yes
checking whether gcc accepts -g... yes
checking for gcc option to enable C11 features... none needed
checking for a sed that does not truncate output... /usr/bin/sed
checking for grep that handles long lines and -e... /usr/bin/grep
checking for egrep... /usr/bin/grep -E
checking for fgrep... /usr/bin/grep -F
checking for ld used by gcc... /usr/bin/ld
checking if the linker (/usr/bin/ld) is GNU ld... yes
checking for BSD- or MS-compatible name lister (nm)... /usr/bin/nm -B
checking the name lister (/usr/bin/nm -B) interface... BSD nm
checking whether ln -s works... yes
checking the maximum length of command line arguments... 1572864
checking how to convert x86_64-pc-linux-gnu file names to x86_64-pc-linux-gnu format... func_convert_file_noop
checking how to convert x86_64-pc-linux-gnu file names to toolchain format... func_convert_file_noop
checking for /usr/bin/ld option to reload object files... -r
checking for file... file
checking for objdump... objdump
checking how to recognize dependent libraries... pass_all
checking for dlltool... no
checking how to associate runtime and link libraries... printf %s\n
checking for ar... ar
checking for archiver @FILE support... @
checking for strip... strip
checking for ranlib... ranlib
checking for gawk... gawk
checking command to parse /usr/bin/nm -B output from gcc object... ok
checking for sysroot... no
checking for a working dd... /usr/bin/dd
checking how to truncate binary pipes... /usr/bin/dd bs=4096 count=1
checking for mt... no
checking if : is a manifest tool... no
checking for stdio.h... yes
checking for stdlib.h... yes
checking for string.h... yes
checking for inttypes.h... yes
checking for stdint.h... yes
checking for strings.h... yes
checking for sys/stat.h... yes
checking for sys/types.h... yes
checking for unistd.h... yes
checking for dlfcn.h... yes
checking for objdir... .libs
checking if gcc supports -fno-rtti -fno-exceptions... no
checking for gcc option to produce PIC... -fPIC -DPIC
checking if gcc PIC flag -fPIC -DPIC works... yes
checking if gcc static flag -static works... no
checking if gcc supports -c -o file.o... yes
checking if gcc supports -c -o file.o... (cached) yes
checking whether the gcc linker (/usr/bin/ld -m elf_x86_64) supports shared libraries... yes
checking whether -lc should be explicitly linked in... no
checking dynamic linker characteristics... GNU/Linux ld.so
checking how to hardcode library paths into programs... immediate
checking whether stripping libraries is possible... yes
checking if libtool supports shared libraries... yes
checking whether to build shared libraries... yes
checking whether to build static libraries... no
checking for gcc... (cached) gcc
checking whether the compiler supports GNU C... (cached) yes
checking whether gcc accepts -g... (cached) yes
checking for gcc option to enable C11 features... (cached) none needed
checking for g++... g++
checking whether the compiler supports GNU C++... yes
checking whether g++ accepts -g... yes
checking for g++ option to enable C++11 features... none needed
checking how to run the C++ preprocessor... g++ -E
checking for ld used by g++... /usr/bin/ld -m elf_x86_64
checking if the linker (/usr/bin/ld -m elf_x86_64) is GNU ld... yes
checking whether the g++ linker (/usr/bin/ld -m elf_x86_64) supports shared libraries... yes
checking for g++ option to produce PIC... -fPIC -DPIC
checking if g++ PIC flag -fPIC -DPIC works... yes
checking if g++ static flag -static works... no
checking if g++ supports -c -o file.o... yes
checking if g++ supports -c -o file.o... (cached) yes
checking whether the g++ linker (/usr/bin/ld -m elf_x86_64) supports shared libraries... yes
checking dynamic linker characteristics... (cached) GNU/Linux ld.so
checking how to hardcode library paths into programs... immediate
checking for -objcopy... no
checking for objcopy... objcopy
checking for -ld... /usr/bin/ld -m elf_x86_64
checking for a BSD-compatible install... /usr/bin/install -c
checking whether g++ supports C++11 features with -std=c++11... yes
checking for zlib.h... yes
checking for compress2 in -lz... yes
checking for openssl/opensslconf.h... yes
checking for AES_encrypt in -lcrypto... yes
checking for expat.h... yes
checking for XML_ParserCreate in -lexpat... yes
checking for pkg-config... /usr/bin/pkg-config
checking pkg-config is at least version 0.9.0... yes
checking for libavcodec libavutil... no
configure: error: Package 'libavcodec', required by 'virtual:world', not found
Package 'libavutil', required by 'virtual:world', not found.

So... libavcodec is still not installed?