MakeMKV not working under Debian Trixie

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LesRhorer
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MakeMKV not working under Debian Trixie

#1 Post by LesRhorer » 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.

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Re: MakeMKV not working under Debian Trixie

#2 Post by flojo » 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

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