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Posted: **Sat Dec 06, 2025 2:59 am**

I have a new desktop running Debian Trixie, and I can't get MakeMKV to work. If I try to configure makemkv-oss-1.18.2 as a regular user, I get quite a few errors:

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Leslie:/RAID/Server-Main/Downloads/MakeMKV/makemkv-oss-1.18.2$ ./configure 
./configure: line 2494: confdefs.h: Permission denied
./configure: line 2498: confdefs.h: Permission denied
./configure: line 2500: confdefs.h: Permission denied
./configure: line 2502: confdefs.h: Permission denied
./configure: line 2504: confdefs.h: Permission denied
./configure: line 2506: confdefs.h: Permission denied
./configure: line 2508: confdefs.h: Permission denied
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
./configure: line 3935: conftest.err: Permission denied
./configure: line 3935: conftest.err: Permission denied
./configure: line 3935: conftest.err: Permission denied
./configure: line 3935: conftest.err: Permission denied
./configure: line 3935: conftest.err: Permission denied
./configure: line 3948: conftest.c: Permission denied
checking whether the C compiler works... no
sed: can't read conftest.c: No such file or directory
configure: error: in `/RAID/Server-Main/Downloads/MakeMKV/makemkv-oss-1.18.2':
configure: error: C compiler cannot create executables
See `config.log' for more details

If I su to root, configure, make, and make install work without errors in makemkv-oss-1.18.2/ and both make and make install work without errors in makemkv-bin-1.18.2/, but when I run makemkv, it says it says it is scanning the first CD-ROM, and then just hangs. There are two BluRay players and one DVD player on this system.

Posted: **Sat Dec 06, 2025 3:24 pm**

LesRhorer wrote: ↑
Sat Dec 06, 2025 2:59 am
... says it is scanning the first CD-ROM, and then just hangs.

Try the makemkvcon 1.17.6 binary and see if it still hangs: https://makemkv.com/download/old/makemk ... 7.6.tar.gz

Posted: **Sat Dec 13, 2025 7:43 am**

Maybe Leslie has no permission to write that "RAID/Server-Main..." drive?
Sounds to me that only root have permission to write on that drive.

You should first run older version to get firmware file. Bug in MakeMKV.
You could compile that older version first or be lazy like me and just run Appimage to get that firmware file and then keep use that new MakeMKV 1.18.2 version.

https://github.com/uncle-ben-devel/make ... tag/1.17.6

Posted: **Sun Dec 14, 2025 3:25 am**

It certainly compiles and runs just fine on a Pi-5 running Pi OS 6.1, which is essentially just vanilla Debian Trixie with a Pi kernel and a few Pi utilities.

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