Unofficial packaging for Debian available

[mathias]

For quite some time I’ve been packaging MakeMKV for my own use, and recently Ben Westover has been actively working on the ITPs to get the packages into Debian. Ben is now hosting the packages to make them available to a larger audience.

Caveats:

• These are unofficial third party packages for MakeMKV -- neither GuinpinSoft nor Debian have been involved in their creation, so the normal disclaimers apply: use at your own risk, these might break your system, etc. That being said, Ben and I do use the packages on our own machines, so we believe they are of sufficient quality for general use.
• Packages are provided for the “bookworm” (oldstable), "trixie" (stable), "forky" (testing), and sid releases, with amd64, i386, arm64, and armhf builds. I personally run trixie/amd64, so I’ve fully tested those packages -- the other ones should work just fine, but we’d appreciate hearing about any difficulties.
• While these are not official Debian packages, we do try to follow Debian packaging practices as best as we can.
• We plan to release updated builds as newer versions of MakeMKV come out, but we can’t promise how quickly that will happen for a given release.

Installation:
As root:

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wget https://people.debian.org/~bjw/apt/bjw-archive-keyring.gpg -O /usr/share/keyrings/bjw-archive-keyring.gpg
echo "Types: deb
URIs: https://people.debian.org/~bjw/apt
Suites: trixie
Components: non-free
Signed-By: /usr/share/keyrings/bjw-archive-keyring.gpg" | tee /etc/apt/sources.list.d/bjw.sources
apt update
apt install makemkv

(Modify the "Suites" codename to reflect the version of Debian you are running.)

Some more information is available at https://apt.benthetechguy.net/. Git repos for each package are available on Debian's code forge: https://salsa.debian.org/BenTheTechGuy/makemkv-oss and https://salsa.debian.org/BenTheTechGuy/makemkv-bin.

Lastly, if you’ve been using MakeMKV for a while and found it useful, please consider buying a full activation key (https://www.makemkv.com/buy/). It’s only $50, and I know I’ve certainly got my money’s worth from this program!

(Updated 2022-08-27 with the transition to Ben's apt repo, 2024-03-15 to reflect current Debian releases, 2026-07-29 with apt repo updates)

[calamari]

Finally moved my main system from Ubuntu 18.04 to Debian 10 (Buster), and this was super helpful.

Thank you!

[SirFarthingtonSmythe]

@mathias, a huge thank you for this. Compiling it from source was working fine on the 32-bit kernel of Debian Buster, but not the 64-bit kernal. The optical drive is of course on the 64-bit machine, so I was having a heck of a time trying to get things working. Your package worked perfectly on Raspberry Pi Desktop 64-bit.

Once again, a huge thank you.

[mathias]

Glad to hear others are finding my packaging work useful!

[martini2]

Thank you for providing this repo and the debian packages. As my drive is in an headless server without gui, which file do i have to install or download to have only the cli version?

[mathias]

Thank you for providing this repo and the debian packages. As my drive is in an headless server without gui, which file do i have to install or download to have only the cli version?

I believe

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apt install makemkvcon

should be what you need to get just the cli version without the full gui provided by the makemkv package.

[minolein]

Hi, will there be a workaround for Debian bookworm?
I can't get these dependencies resolved:

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Die folgenden Pakete haben unerfüllte Abhängigkeiten:
 libmakemkv1 : Hängt ab von: libavcodec58 (>= 7:4.2) ist aber nicht installierbar
               Hängt ab von: libavutil56 (>= 7:4.0) ist aber nicht installierbar
               Hängt ab von: libssl1.1 (>= 1.1.0) ist aber nicht installierbar

However, have installed newer versions of the required software.

[mathias]

Hi, will there be a workaround for Debian bookworm?
I can't get these dependencies resolved:

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Die folgenden Pakete haben unerfüllte Abhängigkeiten:
 libmakemkv1 : Hängt ab von: libavcodec58 (>= 7:4.2) ist aber nicht installierbar
               Hängt ab von: libavutil56 (>= 7:4.0) ist aber nicht installierbar
               Hängt ab von: libssl1.1 (>= 1.1.0) ist aber nicht installierbar

However, have installed newer versions of the required software.

Double-check that your sources.list for Ben's repo is pointing to the bookworm release, not bullseye. The versions for the missing dependencies of libmakemkv1 in your output match what's in bullseye, not bookworm:

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$ cat /etc/apt/sources.list.d/benthetechguy.list
deb [signed-by=/usr/share/keyrings/benthetechguy-archive-keyring.gpg] https://apt.benthetechguy.net/debian bookworm non-free

[prahal]

Could you provide sid/unstable packages taking into account the 64-bit time_t transition (t64 suffix) in sid/unstable currently in progress?

[BenTheTechGuy]

Could you provide sid/unstable packages taking into account the 64-bit time_t transition (t64 suffix) in sid/unstable currently in progress?

Since these updates won't migrate to testing for a while, I can't provide a package in my testing/sid repo without separating the two. Until something else happens that gives me a reason to do that, here's the one-off packages to manually upgrade to if you're on sid (not testing): https://apt.benthetechguy.net/debian/makemkv-sid-t64/

libdriveio0, libmakemkv1, and makemkvcon are required, makemkv if you're using the GUI, libmmbd0 if you're using MakeMKV libaacs emulation, and dbgsym packages if you're debugging. I can do this build for other architectures if needed.

[odysseus]

Hi,

Trying to install on testing while also using the Debian Multimedia repo (https://www.deb-multimedia.org/) and I get dependency issues:

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The following packages have unmet dependencies:
 libavcodec-extra60 : Depends: libavutil58 (= 7:6.1.1-1) but 10:6.1.1-dmo1 is to be installed
                      Conflicts: libavcodec60

I'm not a debian packaging expert, but I think the issue is that you have libmakemkv1 depending directly on the upstream reversion of libavcodec60 (=7:6.1.1-1) and not a slightly more generic version (>=7:6.1.1), i.e. drop the -1 so that the dmo package -dmo1 can be used, as you have for libavutil58 (>=7:6.0) which it seems to be happy with.

Thanks for your hard work!

[BenTheTechGuy]

Hi,

Trying to install on testing while also using the Debian Multimedia repo (https://www.deb-multimedia.org/) and I get dependency issues:

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The following packages have unmet dependencies:
 libavcodec-extra60 : Depends: libavutil58 (= 7:6.1.1-1) but 10:6.1.1-dmo1 is to be installed
                      Conflicts: libavcodec60

I'm not a debian packaging expert, but I think the issue is that you have libmakemkv1 depending directly on the upstream reversion of libavcodec60 (=7:6.1.1-1) and not a slightly more generic version (>=7:6.1.1), i.e. drop the -1 so that the dmo package -dmo1 can be used, as you have for libavutil58 (>=7:6.0) which it seems to be happy with.

Thanks for your hard work!

I'm not deliberately choosing the strict dependency, that's something decided at build-time. Why libavcodec is the only one it gives a strict dependency, I don't know. I have been investigating this for a while as it causes me many headaches, but I'm pretty busy with life at the moment.

To make it depend on the special dmo package, you have to build with that repo enabled.

[prahal]

Thanks. It turns out I just rebuilt the packages from your sources against the unstable repository and the dependencies were updated accordingly.
Only libssl3t64 dependency has changed so on next upgrade all packages were set back to your repository versions instead of my local builds except libmakemkv1 (which was rebuilt with a libssl3 or libssl3t64 dependency).

But in the meantime, I found that your repository's unstable version is (or at least was) a link to the testing one. I believe this will require to be split or wait until the t64 transition is migrated to testing before importing a rebuilt version of your package against unstable.
(I use cowbuilder to create the builder image for building the package against the unstable distribution, then git-buildpackage ie gbp to build the package (though I have a custom script, I don't know if the building would work with a fresh git-buildpackage/pbuilder install).

Good luck with life. No hurry.

[odysseus]

I'm not deliberately choosing the strict dependency, that's something decided at build-time. Why libavcodec is the only one it gives a strict dependency, I don't know. I have been investigating this for a while as it causes me many headaches, but I'm pretty busy with life at the moment.

To make it depend on the special dmo package, you have to build with that repo enabled.

Ah, no worries then. Hopefully a solution presents itself in time

In the meantime, I've used dpkg-deb to edit the depend to be libavcodec60 (>= 7:6.1.1) and installed the modified deb manually, then everything else installs and runs fine. Well, at least until the next update!

For anyone wanting to do the same:

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apt download libmakemkv1
dpkg-deb -R libmakemkv1_1.17.6+ds-1_amd64.deb libmakemkv
cd libmakemkv
vim DEBIAN/control
# edit the depends to be libavcodec60 (>= 7:6.1.1), then :wq
find . -type f -not -path "./DEBIAN/*" -exec md5sum {} + | sort -k 2 | sed 's/\.\/\(.*\)/\1/' > DEBIAN/md5sums
cd ..
dpkg-deb -b libmakemkv libmakemkv1_1.17.6+ds-1_amd64.deb
sudo dpkg -i libmakemkv1_1.17.6+ds-1_amd64.deb
sudo apt install makemkv

Thanks again!

John.

[prahal]

I'm not a debian packaging expert, but I think the issue is that you have libmakemkv1 depending directly on the upstream reversion of libavcodec60 (=7:6.1.1-1) and not a slightly more generic version (>=7:6.1.1), i.e. drop the -1 so that the dmo package -dmo1 can be used, as you have for libavutil58 (>=7:6.0) which it seems to be happy with.

Thanks for your hard work!

I'm not deliberately choosing the strict dependency, that's something decided at build-time. Why libavcodec is the only one it gives a strict dependency, I don't know. I have been investigating this for a while as it causes me many headaches, but I'm pretty busy with life at the moment.

To make it depend on the special dmo package, you have to build with that repo enabled.

Made the analysis for the strict dependency to a debian version. It is due to libmakemkv1 using a private symbol from libavcodec60 and the libavcodec60:amd64.symbols file definition. That is /var/lib/dpkg/info/libavcodec60\:amd64.symbols starts with:

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libavcodec.so.60 libavcodec60 #MINVER#
| libavcodec60 (= 7:6.1.1-3)
(...)
 avpriv_mpegaudio_decode_header@LIBAVCODEC_60 0 1

and:

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nm out/libmakemkv.so.1 |grep LIBAV
(...)
U avpriv_mpegaudio_decode_header@LIBAVCODEC_60

which means that if this symbol is found (avpriv_mpegaudio_decode_header@LIBAVCODEC_60) the minimum version will be "0" and the deb symbol file id-of-dependency-template will be "1".
The deb symbol file being:

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library-soname main-dependency-template
        [| alternative-dependency-template]
(...)
 symbol minimal-version [id-of-dependency-template]

the id-of-dependency-template points to the first alternative dependency template which is number 1.
thuswhy "| libavcodec60 (= 7:6.1.1-3)" is added to the debian/libmakemkv1.substvars by dpkg-shlibdeps (called by "dh_shlibdeps -a" during the package build) which ends up in libmakemkv1 dependencies.

Seems the only way out is to get rid of the private function call from libmakemkv1:

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libffabi/src/ffabi.c:    err = avpriv_mpegaudio_decode_header(&s, hdr);
libffabi/src/mpegaudiodecheader.h:int avpriv_mpegaudio_decode_header(MPADecodeHeader *s, uint32_t header);

(the "avpriv_mpegaudio_decode_header(&s, hdr);" call is in libffabi/src/ffabi.c in ffm_mpa_decode_header)