New Linux user needs help installing please

[Logansfury]

Hello everyone,

I am very eager to try MakeMKV, but I am a bit confused by the installation instructions on the page from this forum. I see:

Unpack both packages and starting from source package do the following steps:
For makemkv-oss package:

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./configure
make
sudo make install

I am now afraid to proceed because I don't know if this is a single command (the select all seems to suggest it) or if I enter this as three separate commands (which seems more sensical to me)

next step is just as cryptic:

For makemkv-bin package:

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make
sudo make install

The application will be installed as "/usr/bin/makemkv".

Again, I dont know if this is one command in terminal or two.

Also I am brand new to linux I have never unpacked a tar.gz before.

Do I just download, and navigate to the directory it downloaded to in terminal and start performing the above commands or do I have to use a Linux version of window's 7zip to open it first?

I am on Linux Mint 21.2 Victoria | Cinnamon.

Can anyone please help?

Thank you for reading,

Logan

[MrPenguin]

./configure
make
sudo make install

These are three separate commands. Invoking "sudo" ensures that "make install" is executed as "root", because only "root" should be able to write to the /usr/bin etc directories.

Also I am brand new to linux I have never unpacked a tar.gz before.

Try

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$ tar zxvf filename.tar.gz

[PimpDiggler]

This should help you out

https://www.linuxcapable.com/install-ma ... inux-mint/

[Logansfury]

Thank you for the reply

I have successfully installed MakeMKV and used it to rip a DVD. I have also encountered my first problem with a DVD with copywrite protection that cannot be read by the program and will not allow me to back it up.