Noob Question - How to a make a patch work

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I'm facing problems for ripping Audio CD, and found a patch in a forum than maybe fixes it. But don't know to apply it.

Thanks in advance

You would have to download the source code for cdparanoia, install any necessary libraries required for compilation, apply the patch to the source code, and compile it into a binary. This is over the heads of most beginners; maybe you could try posting your issue with ripping CDs as a question on this site to see if there's a simpler answer. — Nick Weinberg, Sep 08 '16 at 15:55
Thanks for you reply. I already posted the problem days ago, but I get no responses: http://askubuntu.com/questions/821280/morituri-error-ripping-the-last-track-of-any-cd I'm following this instructions and want to test if works: https://github.com/thomasvs/morituri/issues/36 — Roots, Sep 08 '16 at 16:07

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You need to get the source of cdparanoia and apply the patch to cdparanoia.1 file.

I've tried to use the patch and I think it was failing for an absence of newline at the end. I added one and the patch was successful. Get the modified patch from this github gist

cdparanoia uses svn. So, if your patch file is saved as changes.patch and you're in a directory where cdparanoia.1 file resides, you'll do

patch -p0 < changes.patch

How to make and apply SVN patch?

After applying the patch, you need to compile the whole software. There is a README file instructing the process. Basically it is executing these commands sequentially

./configure
make
sudo make install

edited May 23 '17 at 12:39

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answered Sep 08 '16 at 16:01

Anwar

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What did I wrong? That command should be applied to the sorce extracted folder? I downloaded cdparanoia-III-10.2.src.tgz http://pastebin.com/fe0CDZm5 – Roots Sep 08 '16 at 17:35
Where did you downloaded it? – Anwar Sep 08 '16 at 17:39
@rootsandculture Some patches work differently. I saw that cdparanoia use svn. to patch it, you'll do patch -p0 < changes.patch – Anwar Sep 08 '16 at 17:45
I'm completely lost :( I readed the link How to make and apply SVN patch but I can't figure out. Could someone patch it and upload the patched file? :) http://pastebin.com/JRQZ4Z7T – Roots Sep 08 '16 at 18:32
@rootsandculture I got the same result. Make sure you found the patch file genuine and good. – Anwar Sep 08 '16 at 18:33
@rootsandculture I think, I'll try another time. – Anwar Sep 08 '16 at 18:35
@rootsandculture I've fixed the patch according to the instruction of this question. Get it here. http://pastebin.com/GV1mxQQW – Anwar Sep 08 '16 at 18:42
What should I do with that? – Roots Sep 08 '16 at 18:55
Patch the source code again. make sure it's not patched already. extract from the download archive – Anwar Sep 08 '16 at 18:56
I deleted the original folder and extracted the .tgz again and moved your patched file onto that folder. I get this: http://pastebin.com/h1fFV882 – Roots Sep 08 '16 at 19:07
Let us continue this discussion in chat. – Roots Sep 08 '16 at 19:22

Noob Question - How to a make a patch work

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