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dvd95 was removed from Vivid (15.04).

Do you know of any alternative as easy to use as that one (or maybe even easier) and that it is native for GTK environments or maybe that can be used via an easy CLI?

k9copy, as suggested below, pulls 126 packages of dependencies, marking it as not a serious alternative.
For example, installing a program for Windows through wine will take a lot less space and need less dependencies than k9copy.

This question was marked as a duplicate of Is there an alternative to DVD-Shrink,[...]?.
I believe that this is not duplicate because of the comment to this answer to that question:

dvd95 does not work like dvdshrink;

I personally do not know DVD-Shrink, since I always used dvd95 and I would like to have an alternative to the latter, not to the first.

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EDIT: dvd95, k9copy and dvd shrink all perform pretty much the same task.

dvd95 explanation can be found on its homepage

k9copy explanation can be found here

DVDShrink explanation can be found here

ALL OF THESE APPLICATIONS ARE USED TO CONVERT DVDS TO FIT TO A 4.7GB DVD

EDIT 2:

I was able to get dvd95 to install into Ubuntu 15.04.

For dvd95 and Ubuntu 15.04 install, add the following lines to /etc/apt/sources.list

deb http://us.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/ trusty multiverse
deb http://us.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/ trusty universe
deb http://us.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/ trusty main

then run 

sudo apt-get update

then run

sudo apt-get install dvd95

After dvd95 is installed, remove the lines above or comment them out like below:

# deb http://us.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/ trusty multiverse
# deb http://us.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/ trusty universe
# deb http://us.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/ trusty main

then run

sudo apt-get update

so the repositories go back to normal so that you don't mess up updates in the future.

K9COPY:

I was able to get k9copy to install into Ubuntu 15.04. It is the closet thing I can think of to dvd95.

I installed it by first downloading the .deb file from here. I downloaded thek9copy_3.0.3-1_vivid_amd64.deb version. Then I tried the install by typing in from the downloaded file location:

sudo dpkg -i k9copy_3.0.3-1_vivid_amd64.deb

which it failed about dependencies. Immediately, I typed in:

sudo apt-get -f install

which then installed all the dependencies for k9copy. Then I reran the dpkg install for k9copy:

sudo dpkg -i k9copy_3.0.3-1_vivid_amd64.deb

Hope this helps!

NOTE: k9copy was written for the K Desktop Environment, that is why it pulls so many packages.

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    126 packages of dependencies (kate, kactivity, plasma libraries, seriously?).

    So, it is NOT a serious alternative to dvd95 (which is a native Gnome application).

     – dadexix86 Jun 03 '15 at 06:37
  • BTW thanks for taking the time to answer. I updated the question stating this clearly, I would like something more native than k9copy for Unity. – dadexix86 Jun 03 '15 at 07:02
  • I had many problems already when mixing DE's stuff that I would not like to risk another reinstallation :) dvd95 did not only shrink, it allowed you to choose what you want in it (audio tracks, subtitles, menus, and so on) and then changed the quality of the output to adjust to these settings. Does DVD shrink do it too? – dadexix86 Jun 03 '15 at 14:28
  • Ok, thanks, I'll try with DVD shrink asap and I'll keep you posted :) – dadexix86 Jun 03 '15 at 14:32
  • @dadexix86 I updated my answer with the installation instructions for installing dvd95 into Ubuntu 15.04. – Terrance Jun 04 '15 at 01:15