www.makemkv.com

Wanted to put this out there to see if this helps ease the building of MakeMKV. Any improvements would be greatly appreciated. The only change you will have to make over time is to update the curr_version variable to something other than 1.6.4 in the future.

This script downloads the gz files, unpacks them, builds makemkv, installs makemkv, deletes the zips and build folders, downloads an icon to /usr/share/pixmaps and then creates a gnome menu entry for makemkv
Copy all of this into the new file
change the permissions to make it executable now run it!

I created a similar script using BASH and posted it here. About the only real difference is that I included the version as a parameter (useful for when I update makemkv, rather than touching the script I just do makemkv-install 1.6.5) and I stop the script if any of the builds go wrong. I did include text for a workaround apparently required under Lucid and a few other systems, but since I'm too lazy to spin up a Lucid VM and test it myself I wasn't comfortable actually implementing the change automatically (a pretty simple sed command).

I do like how you've created a GNOME menu entry, I may have to update my own script to do something similar. If you're running a reasonable version of Ubuntu or otherwise can get PPAs to work, the document I linked shows how to install from a PPA so it will get updated automatically (if you'd like to create a PPA yourself you can check this out).

A more trivial comment, I chose my name intentionally because I'm forgetful. I have a recipe manager (Gourmet) and I wrote a script to process the recipe filenames after I export them to HTML. I called it something like process-recipe, but when I use it once every few months I could never remember what I called it so I had to check ~/bin. I renamed it recipe-process and now I know to type "recipe" and let tab completion figure out if it's really recipe-process, recipe-rename, etc. Similarly since I designed my script to be used on MakeMKV updates, I used makemkv-install so I can tab complete it after typing makemkv (in case I forget if it's -install or -update or -download, etc.).

I am so glad that you have taken an initiative to come up with a script here using BASH. The script from what I can see seems to be very much useful and could serve as a replacement to the above script to build MakeMKV. I think this works since the only difference exists in the latter included as a parameter.