HOW TO INSTALL MAKEMKV ON UBUNTU FOR PEOPLE NEW TO LINUX

[mrjohn-d-w]

Hello everyone. I'm a total NOOB when it comes to Linux, as I am trying to break free of Windows.

I know there's already a guide for installing MakeMKV on ubuntu, but as I am new to linux, I don't understand the terminology and processes being discussed.

I downloaded MakeMKV, from the ubuntu app center, but the version I installed keeps giving me a message that says that the version I installed is too old and I need to install the newer version.

I've downloaded the two files and extracted them, but I don't know exactly how to proceed forward.

Can anyone help?

[standforme]

The guide has you get two tar.gz files. Open a terminal, in the Downloads directory (in most file managers, it's either a right-click option, or in the toolbar). Depending on terminal, one or all of middle click, ctrl-shift-v, or ctrl-shift-insert should paste (ctrl-shift-v is getting to be the norm, these days). Run the big sudo apt-get line. Then run, for bin and oss files:

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tar xvf makemkv-oss-1.18.2.tar.gz
tar xvf makemkv-bin-1.18.2.tar.gz

Assuming you've avoided command line interfaces for the most part, here's a quick basic tip that will come in handy a lot, when using them. You can use tab, for autocomplete, and they all keep command histories. My actual process for doing the above, if not copying and pasting, would be something like, "tar xvf ma", tab (should fill it up to the first -), "oss", tab (should fill in the rest of the file name), enter, then after it's done, up arrow, swap out, "oss", for "bin", then enter again. Tar is tape archive, like an old zip file tool for *n*xes, but historically coming from reading and writing to tapes, back in the 70s. XVF is eXtract, be Verbose (list the files, so you get feedback that it worked right), and File (specified after the string of parameters). Or, open them in a GUI archive manager, and drag and drop the folders.

Just like in a Windows command prompt, you can then use the cd command to change directory, with .. being the parent, and . being the current directory, but using / instead of \. So:

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./configure
make
sudo make install
...

would be more completely documented as (starting right after untarring the two main files):

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cd makemkv-oss-1.18.2
./configure
make
sudo make install
cd ../makemkv-bin-1.18.2
make
sudo make install

That should be it.

[mrjohn-d-w]

Do I extract the tar.gz files first, because otherwise I don't know how to open them in the terminal.

I tried right clicking on them but I don't see an option to open in terminal.

If I extract them, I can open each folder in the terminal.

If I use the "sudo apt-get install build-essential pkg-config libc6-dev libssl-dev libexpat1-dev libavcodec-dev libgl1-mesa-dev qtbase5-dev zlib1g-dev" command on the bin folder, it seems to work, but not on the oss folder.

[mrjohn-d-w]

Well it looks like by following your instructions I managed to stumble my way to successfully installing it. Thank you very much!

[standforme]

Tar xvf extracts them, from the terminal.

The sudo apt-get install (...) line only needs to be run once, before running configure or make, and can be run anywhere. It's to install the packages MakeMKV (and the building of MakeMKV) depends on. Apt-get is the main Debian (and Ubuntu) software installer/uninstaller, for software packages in the OS repositories (apt = advanced package tool, IIRC).

[georgesgiralt]

Hello,
If you are totally new to Linux, and Ubuntu, my bet is that installing from sources could be too high a step.
You are lucky, though, because some of MakeMkv users have made an Ubuntu repository with packages for you to install using one command line.
See the maker information here : https://launchpad.net/~heyarje/+archive ... kemkv-beta
It says how to install the repository, then install MakeMkv.
Once done, you will have MakeMkv and it will update "automagically" every time a new version comes out.
Enjoy !