HOW TO:Install Handbrake SVN in Ubuntu 9.10

[fenian]

As you may be aware the version of Handbrake that ships with 9.10 does not work.This is a guide for building the SVN (Subversion) Handbrake.

1-Downloadf all the dependencies,open a terminal and enter...

sudo apt-get install subversion yasm build-essential autoconf libtool zlib1g-dev libbz2-dev intltool (gui) libglib2.0-dev libdbus-glib-1-dev libgtk2.0-dev libhal-dev libhal-storage-dev libwebkit-dev libnotify-dev libgstreamer0.10-dev libgstreamer-plugins-base0.10-dev checkinstall

2-Download the SVN source code,in the terminal enter...

svn co svn://svn.handbrake.fr/HandBrake/trunk HandBrake-source

3-Move to the Handbrake-source directoy,in the terminal enter...

cd ./HandBrake-source

4-Configure Handbrake (this will take a while),in the terminal enter...

./configure --launch

5-Move to the build directory,in the terminal enter...

cd ./build

6-Make and install .deb package using checkinstall,in the terminal enter...

sudo checkinstall

Because we used checkinstall rather than make install we can easily remove Handbrake in Synaptic Package Manager if we want to.

[psikohunter]

Been trying to install the SVN for a couple days. But no matter what I do it failes with this output. Any Ideas.

psiko@psikobuntu:~/HandBrake-source/build$ sudo checkinstall

checkinstall 1.6.1, Copyright 2002 Felipe Eduardo Sanchez Diaz Duran
This software is released under the GNU GPL.


The package documentation directory ./doc-pak does not exist.
Should I create a default set of package docs? [y]: n

*****************************************
**** Debian package creation selected ***
*****************************************

This package will be built according to these values:

0 - Maintainer: [ root@psikobuntu ]
1 - Summary: [ Handbrake SVN V2904 ]
2 - Name: [ build ]
3 - Version: [ 20091116 ]
4 - Release: [ 1 ]
5 - License: [ GPL ]
6 - Group: [ checkinstall ]
7 - Architecture: [ amd64 ]
8 - Source location: [ build ]
9 - Alternate source location: [ ]
10 - Requires: [ ]
11 - Provides: [ build ]

Enter a number to change any of them or press ENTER to continue:

Installing with make...Installing with install...

========================= Installation results ===========================
/bin/cp ./HandBrakeCLI /usr/local/bin/HandBrakeCLI
/bin/cp: cannot stat `./HandBrakeCLI': No such file or directory
make: *** [test.install] Error 1

**** Installation failed. Aborting package creation.

Cleaning up...OK

Bye.

[JohnAStebbins]

You can also follow fenian's instructions through step 3, then...

./configure --prefix=/usr
cd build
make
make pkg.create.deb

This creates deb packages that can be found in build/pkg when it's done.
The prefix is important since the deb rules file assumes /usr.

[psikohunter]

Awesome, That worked alot better for me.
Many Thanks.

[Simi23]

Thanks, worked fine for Ubuntu 10.04

[forgewire]

Worked well on Ubuntu 9.10 but needed libgudev-1.0-0