There are just some programs you just can't live without and you got to have it one way or the other. Dvdstyler is one of those programs for me. I love it! Unfortunately, when I did a fresh install of 12.04 in my old computer which I had just put in a new SSD, it simply did not work anymore. It kept crashing. So, I looked into it. The repositories have Dvdstyler 2.1 and the program itself is up to 2.5.2 on it's website. So I downloaded it.... and saw it was a .tar.gz file... and then I went... "oh, crap!"
I'm not a Linux buff. Hardly ever have I bothered to stray beyond the simplest of terminal commands and I strive to install programs either with Synaptic or very simple tutorials where I simply copy and paste said commands. I like Linux, namely Kubuntu, because of it's very stable once you get the bugs out. I can leave my computer alone for days, weeks, months at a time and come back and it'll still works just as good as the day I left, no reboot needed.
Soooo... crap! I was now treading on unfamiliar ground. I don't like unfamiliar ground. You can step into a hole and break an ankle on unfamiliar ground. But alas, I had to have Dvdstyler, so onward I went.
First thing I did was, of course, look up a tutorial. I changed directory of the terminal to the folder containing the extracted contents of the .tar.gz fie, ran "./configure", and.....
... "crap!"
Something about something not being met or some sort of thing. I had no idea. The Terminal said "Stop" or (I forgot exactly what it said). Again, I had no idea. Back to the google I went, looking up the key phrase which killed my "./configure". Come to find out, I didn't have the necessary dependencies installed. I needed something called "Cairo" or whatnot. Of course, this was not to install Dvdstyler, but "wxyzt" or whatever, another dependency of Dvdstyler. Come to find out, "./configure" will tell you what dependencies you lack and then stop. All I had to do as install the dependencies as I went. Once you've installed all the dependencies, "./configure" will finish and make the necessary files.
And so, after googling, downloading some .dev files, installing via synaptic some of the dependencies... finally.... yes!!!... finally!!!.. I typed in "make" and some really funky stuff started to happen. Turns out, that funky stuff was good stuff. All sorts of gibberish I had no hope of understanding was running across my terminal screen! Kinda cool. And, after it was done, I typed "sudo make install" and soon, I had installed everything.
I immediately opened Dvdstyler via terminal and started my project.... and it died while trying to make the menu. Crap!!!!! Turns out, there's a bug in my install, but it's easily fixed by putting in a audio file in the menu. After that, it worked like a charm. Thus, my odyssey with the .tar.gz files was over and Dvdstyler now works like a charm.
Yes, I'm now just a little bit smarter than I was a few days ago. I'm sure I can handle just about anything.....
... oh, crap!!!
I'm not a Linux buff. Hardly ever have I bothered to stray beyond the simplest of terminal commands and I strive to install programs either with Synaptic or very simple tutorials where I simply copy and paste said commands. I like Linux, namely Kubuntu, because of it's very stable once you get the bugs out. I can leave my computer alone for days, weeks, months at a time and come back and it'll still works just as good as the day I left, no reboot needed.
Soooo... crap! I was now treading on unfamiliar ground. I don't like unfamiliar ground. You can step into a hole and break an ankle on unfamiliar ground. But alas, I had to have Dvdstyler, so onward I went.
First thing I did was, of course, look up a tutorial. I changed directory of the terminal to the folder containing the extracted contents of the .tar.gz fie, ran "./configure", and.....
... "crap!"
Something about something not being met or some sort of thing. I had no idea. The Terminal said "Stop" or (I forgot exactly what it said). Again, I had no idea. Back to the google I went, looking up the key phrase which killed my "./configure". Come to find out, I didn't have the necessary dependencies installed. I needed something called "Cairo" or whatnot. Of course, this was not to install Dvdstyler, but "wxyzt" or whatever, another dependency of Dvdstyler. Come to find out, "./configure" will tell you what dependencies you lack and then stop. All I had to do as install the dependencies as I went. Once you've installed all the dependencies, "./configure" will finish and make the necessary files.
And so, after googling, downloading some .dev files, installing via synaptic some of the dependencies... finally.... yes!!!... finally!!!.. I typed in "make" and some really funky stuff started to happen. Turns out, that funky stuff was good stuff. All sorts of gibberish I had no hope of understanding was running across my terminal screen! Kinda cool. And, after it was done, I typed "sudo make install" and soon, I had installed everything.
I immediately opened Dvdstyler via terminal and started my project.... and it died while trying to make the menu. Crap!!!!! Turns out, there's a bug in my install, but it's easily fixed by putting in a audio file in the menu. After that, it worked like a charm. Thus, my odyssey with the .tar.gz files was over and Dvdstyler now works like a charm.
Yes, I'm now just a little bit smarter than I was a few days ago. I'm sure I can handle just about anything.....
... oh, crap!!!
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