How To: Ubuntu + Rip DVD + Rippedwire (gtkhandbrake) using the handbrake tool
How Tos, Linux, Linux Applications, Open Source Applications, Ubuntu Desktop May 6th, 2008
First off, I want to thank Dan Trevino from the Florida LoCo team for helping me get this working. I was beginning to rip my hair out and cry like a little baby, (F this linux crap, I’m buying a mac) moment. So for a long time I have used “rippedwire” to rip my “legally” purchased DVD’s out to my network so I can stream them. If you haven’t heard of rippedwire, RippedWire is a graphical front end to HandBrake, the open-source, GPL-licensed, multiplatform, multithreaded DVD to MPEG-4 converter.
It works just fine on Ubuntu Gutsy Gibbon 7.10. I was having mono dependency errors however installing it on Hardy Heron 8.04 LTS release. Below are the instructions for installing this (BAMF) application.
First, download rippedwire DEB package to your home directory.
$ sudo apt-get install mono-mcs
$ sudo apt-get install mono-2.0-devel gtk-sharp2
$ cd to your home directory of where the deb package is i.e. cd /home/username
$ sudo dpkg -i –force-overwri
**UPDATED Instructions
The instructions should be modified to be:
1. sudo apt-get install mono-mcs mono-2.0-devel gtk-sharp2
2. sudo dpkg -i monofix_1.0_all.deb
3. sudo dpkg -i handbrakegtk_1.0.1_i386.deb
Download the monofix package here
I should also point out… if you’ve already installed with the ‘old’ instructions you can ‘fix’ your system by doing:
1. sudo apt-get install -f
This will remove handbrakegtk
2. sudo dpkg -i monofix_1.0_all.deb
3. sudo dpkg -i handbrakegtk_1.0.1_i386.deb
Ok, now you are ready to party like a rockstar.
Go to Applications > Sound & Video> HandBrakeGTK
Load a DVD, you click on the source button, select your movie and desired settings, and rip away, like you see below as I’m ripping Snatch!
Thanks again Dan !
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Thanks.. now my problem.. when attempting to install handbrakegtk I get the following error:
dpkg: error processing handbrakegtk_1.0.1_i386.deb (–install):
trying to overwrite `/usr/share/applications/brasero.desktop’, which is also in package brasero
Any idea how to get around this?
Yes… you could unistall BRASERO form add/quit software and then reinstall the handbrakegtk
So… what if you still want to have Brasero installed? Why is Handbrake even checking for Brasero?
Guisep,
This error occurs because whoever packaged HandbrakeGTK is an idiot and somehow managed to name their launcher brasero.desktop
Ugly Hack Workaround:
You can manually edit the handbrakegtk_1.0.1_i386.deb to fix the launcher names. This isn’t really recommended and you’ll have to install using dpkg on the command line since the GUI package manager will notice that the package has been tampered with.
Under data.tar.gz navigate to /./usr/share/applications/ and rename the two files something like handbrakegtk.desktop and handbrakegtk.desktop~
Install with sudo dpkg -i handbrakegtk_1.0.1_i386.deb
Thanks to both the poster and the people making comments – this really helped.
Thanks again, you’ve solved the mono dependency issues I had that I couldn’t find anywhere else…
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I have renamed the file in the tar.gz by extracting it and then compiling it back into a tar.gz. how do i turn the tar.gz files back into a .deb?
[...] Keep in mind you need to also install Mono to meet the dependencies. In the short time, Linux Crypt has the how to for installing HandBrake. The easier way: download the two deb files and open [...]
Right Click on HB with Nautilus, Select Archive Manager, Then use Terminal and type sudo dpkg -i
The monofix deb-file is no longer available through the above link. Where can it be found?
Frederick, I re uploaded that package, sorry for the broken link, it’s now working.
Thanks, with this, it all works smooth and easy!
[...] the dependency in the existing debs. This only applies to hardy. Linuxcrypt has a writeup here, along with the deb. Tagged as: handbrake, hardy, [...]
Also had problem with Brasero and cold not edit .deb to change the .brasero desktop WTF! Even though rw permissions the .deb opens as ro with user or root!?
So I removed Brasero and installed as you directions.
1. sudo apt-get install mono-mcs mono-2.0-devel gtk-sharp2
2. sudo dpkg -i monofix_1.0_all.deb
3. sudo dpkg -i handbrakegtk_1.0.1_i386.deb
BUT now get lotsa GTK sharp errors while trying to run handbrakegtk.and the app does not load
Help!
Using Ubuntu jaunty 2.6.28.11
Ok got it to work on jaunty. The authors instructions worked for intrepid but did NOT work
for jaunty so for jaunty do 1 and 2 and then add to sources.lst:
deb http://ppa.launchpad.net/hunter-kaller/ppa/ubuntu jaunty main
Then install handbrake and yasm using synaptic
Aimersoft DVD Ripper is the most powerful one that I have used before. It has great power to rip DVD to video of all formats. You can free download here:
http://freedvdripper.org/dvdvideoconverter/dvd-ripper-aimersoft.html
Thanks for writing, I very much liked your newest post. I think you should post more frequently, you evidently have natural ability for blogging!
How to rip dvd on mac?here is a step.
OK, followed steps exactly but when executing the final line (handbrake unpack) I get a dependency error:
dpkg: dependency problems prevent configuration of handbrakegtk:
handbrakegtk depends on gtk-sharp2; however:
Package gtk-sharp2 is not installed.
dpkg: error processing handbrakegtk (–install):
dependency problems – leaving unconfigured
Any ideas?