make instructions don't seem to work on Ubuntu 9.10 - so

[kevincrocker]

I must be doing something wrong - I'm not normally someone who compiles things - so I followed the instructions as set out in the locked admin notice

but, even though all the dependencies were downloaded and appeared to install, the "make -f makefile.linux" command doesn't work - I get all kinds of errors and warnings till finally it dies with an [Error 1] code

so, now what do I do - this sounds like a great program - but, not being able to get past the first step is a bit of a bummer.

Help

[skittle]

Hi, please post the console output
http://paste.debian.net/

[kevincrocker]

Well first I'm getting the following errors just simply installing all the dependencies -with Hash Sum mismatch errors:

http://paste.debian.net/65988

[skittle]

Hi again, this is good news! Likely you dont have dependencies installed because its trying to fetch from the CD and not ubuntu online repo
Please post the output of your APT sources.list, it should be in /etc/apt/sources.list

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cat /etc/apt/sources.list

[kevincrocker]

Here's my sources.list

http://paste.debian.net/65999

[skittle]

comment out cd-rom line with '#' with sudo nano sources.list, or your favorite editor.
then do

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sudo apt-get update
sudo apt-get upgrade

then try to install makemkv dependencies again

[kevincrocker]

this worked great - thanks!

now for a serious question how do I get a nice entry in the Applications menu (Sound and Video preferably)

[skittle]

Awesome, I thought that might be the issue! weird that it was trying to fetch from cdrom though...
also do

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sudo apt-get autoremove

to get rid of unneeded dependencies

menu items depends on the desktop your using, gnome, kde, xfce... if using gnome:
First i think ubuntu has a built in menu editor, but you can create one on manually too:

in this folder:
"/usr/share/applications" create a file <appname>.desktop

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[Desktop Entry]
Name=MakeMKV
Comment=MakeMKV 1.5.2
Type=Application
Exec=/usr/bin/makemkv
Icon=<URI>.png
Terminal=false
Categories=AudioVideo

More information about menus: http://library.gnome.org/devel/menu-spec/

[kevincrocker]

Thanks again - simple question though -I know what URI means, but what does it mean -that I have to put in a web URI or a local file system URI - I'm guessing a local file system URIand, does the icon have to be some predetermined size? I found an icon that was 180px x 180px - that seems large

[skittle]

a local image, you can put it /usr/share/icons or /usr/share/pixmaps or wherever you want
icons will be resized to your desktop settings

[kevincrocker]

Thanks again - all done!

You've been a phenomenal help. Thanks greatly.