Tuesday, February 14, 2012

Handbrake GTK and Debian Squeeze

Handbrake isn't a stable package, you need to edit etc/apt/sources.list to allow testing packages temporarily...as in changing


  ###### Debian Main Repos
deb http://ftp.us.debian.org/debian/ squeeze main contrib non-free 
deb-src http://ftp.us.debian.org/debian/squeeze main contrib non-free


To


  ###### Debian Main Repos
deb http://ftp.us.debian.org/debian/ testing main contrib non-free 
deb-src http://ftp.us.debian.org/debian/testing main contrib non-free


Save, do a sudo apt-get update, followed by a sudo apt-get install handbrake-gtk, and watch those dependencies get met.

Remember, change back to the previous stable area when complete!

It will install a lot...or at least did for me.  But success is reached at the end.  

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