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I tried installing Avidemux 2.6.20 on my Ubuntu 17.04 Zesty Zapus by following the instructions at TipsOnUbuntu, but the Terminal gives me the following response:

XXXXs@pop-os:~$ sudo apt update && sudo apt install avidemux2.6-qt
Hit:2 http://fi.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu zesty InRelease                      
Get:4 http://fi.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu zesty-updates InRelease [89,2 kB]    
Hit:5 http://ppa.launchpad.net/gezakovacs/ppa/ubuntu zesty InRelease           
Get:6 http://security.ubuntu.com/ubuntu zesty-security InRelease [89,2 kB]     
Hit:1 http://screenshots.getdeb.net zesty-getdeb InRelease                     
Hit:7 http://ppa.launchpad.net/system76-dev/stable/ubuntu zesty InRelease      
Hit:8 https://deb.opera.com/opera-stable stable InRelease                      
Get:3 http://screenshots.getdeb.net xenial-getdeb InRelease [9 604 B]          
Get:9 http://fi.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu zesty-backports InRelease [89,2 kB]  
Hit:10 http://ppa.launchpad.net/system76/pop/ubuntu zesty InRelease            
Get:11 http://screenshots.getdeb.net xenial-getdeb/apps amd64 Packages [66,5 kB]
Hit:12 http://repository.spotify.com stable InRelease                          
Get:13 http://screenshots.getdeb.net xenial-getdeb/apps i386 Packages [67,2 kB]
Get:14 http://fi.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu zesty-proposed InRelease [240 kB]   
Fetched 651 kB in 4s (162 kB/s)     
Reading package lists... Done
Building dependency tree       
Reading state information... Done
All packages are up to date.
Reading package lists... Done
Building dependency tree       
Reading state information... Done
The following additional packages will be installed:
  avidemux2.6-common avidemux2.6-jobs avidemux2.6-plugins-common
  avidemux2.6-plugins-qt lame libaften0 libavidemux2.6 libfaac0
  liblavfile-2.1-0 liblavjpeg-2.1-0 liblavplay-2.1-0 libqt5opengl5
  libquicktime2 mjpegtools mjpegtools-gtk twolame
The following NEW packages will be installed:
  avidemux2.6-common avidemux2.6-jobs avidemux2.6-plugins-common
  avidemux2.6-plugins-qt avidemux2.6-qt lame libaften0 libavidemux2.6 libfaac0
  liblavfile-2.1-0 liblavjpeg-2.1-0 liblavplay-2.1-0 libqt5opengl5
  libquicktime2 mjpegtools mjpegtools-gtk twolame
0 upgraded, 17 newly installed, 0 to remove and 0 not upgraded.
Need to get 5 480 kB/7 525 kB of archives.
After this operation, 27,6 MB of additional disk space will be used.
Do you want to continue? [Y/n] Y
Err:2 http://archive.getdeb.net/ubuntu zesty-getdeb/apps amd64 avidemux2.6-plugins-common amd64 1:2.7.0-1~getdeb2~zesty
  Error reading from server. Remote end closed connection
Get:1 http://ftp.heanet.ie/pub/www.getdeb.net/getdeb/ubuntu zesty-getdeb/apps amd64 libavidemux2.6 amd64 1:2.7.0-1~getdeb2~zesty [3 064 kB]
Get:3 http://ftp.acc.umu.se/mirror/getdeb.net/ubuntu zesty-getdeb/apps amd64 avidemux2.6-qt amd64 1:2.7.0-1~getdeb2~zesty [1 423 kB]
Fetched 4 487 kB in 1min 6s (67,5 kB/s)                                        
E: Failed to fetch http://archive.getdeb.net/ubuntu/pool/apps/a/avidemux2.6/avidemux2.6-plugins-common_2.7.0-1~getdeb2~zesty_amd64.deb  Error reading from server. Remote end closed connection
E: Unable to fetch some archives, maybe run apt-get update or try with --fix-missing?
XXXXs@pop-os:~$

I have no idea why it gives me such error messages. Any ideas how to fix this...? :-(

Jayaguru-Shishya
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2 Answers2

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Besides we hear sometimes that Avidemux is dead, it's possible to install it yet. I like it very much, and I successfully installed it in my 17.04 box right now.

  1. Download the following file: https://sourceforge.net/projects/avidemux/files/avidemux/2.6.20/avidemux_2.6.20.tar.gz/download
  2. sudo tar -zvxf "into a folder of your preference" (I suggest /tmp)

  3. sudo apt install libsqlite3-dev qttools5-dev-tools build-essential cmake pkg-config zlib1g-dev zlib1g-dbg yasm qt4-qmake libqt4-dev

  4. cd /tmp/avidemux_2.6.20

  5. sudo bash bootStrap.bash *** it will delay a bit ****
  6. sudo cp -R install/usr/* /usr/
  7. gedit ~/Desktop/avidemux.desktop (and put this within it):
[Desktop Entry]
Version=2.6.20
Type=Application
Terminal=false
Exec=/usr/bin/avidemux3_qt4
Name=Avidemux3
Comment=<comments>
Icon=icon path here

Finally, 

chmod +r ~/Desktop/avidemux.desktop
Redbob
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    Jayaguru-Shishya, have you tried install Avidemux after my answer? – Redbob Sep 06 '17 at 15:16
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    Hi there, and sorry for my most late response! I downloaded the file avidemux_2.6.20.tar.gz from the link you gave me to ~/Downloads. After that, I tried to run the commands through Terminal, which resulted into the following. First, XXXXs@XXXXs:~$ sudo tar -zvxg "/tmp" tar: Refusing to read archive contents from terminal (missing -f option?) tar: Error is not recoverable: exiting now. – Jayaguru-Shishya Dec 02 '17 at 17:20
  • Second, `XXXXs@XXXXs:~/Downloads$ sudo tar -zvxf "/tmp" tar (child): /tmp: Cannot read: Is a directory tar (child): At beginning of tape, quitting now tar (child): Error is not recoverable: exiting now

    gzip: stdin: unexpected end of file tar: Child returned status 2 tar: Error is not recoverable: exiting now`

    What am I doing wrong...? :-(

     – Jayaguru-Shishya Dec 02 '17 at 17:21
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    You forgot to Target you file. Type sudo tar -zvxf <file name you downloaded> – Redbob Dec 02 '17 at 17:50
  • Thanks for the notice! I've now run the following via Terminal: XXXXs@XXXXs: /tmp$ sudo tar -zvxf "avidemux_2.6.20.tar.gz" avidemux_2.6.20/ avidemux_2.6.20/AUTHORS avidemux_2.6.20/bootStrapHaikuOS.bash [...] Setting up libqt4-dev (4:4.8.7+dfsg-7ubuntu1) ... Setting up libqt4-opengl-dev (4:4.8.7+dfsg-7ubuntu1) ... Processing triggers for libc-bin (2.26-0ubuntu2) ...

    However, running sudo bash BootStrap.bash via Terminal, yields me with this:

    XXXXs@XXXXs: /tmp/avidemux_2.6.20$ sudo bash BootStrap.bash bash: BootStrap.bash: No such file or directory

     – Jayaguru-Shishya Dec 02 '17 at 22:28
  • Any ideas...? :-( – Jayaguru-Shishya Dec 02 '17 at 22:31
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    I had to reinstall avidemux, so I followed my own instructions... The item 5 was not correct (sorry!!). the correct is sudo bash bootStrap.bash (I fixed there yet). It worked very welll!... :-) – Redbob Dec 03 '17 at 00:07
  • Thanks! I've now installed Avidemux successfully on my system, but one stupid question still remains: where can I find it? I've been trying to find Avidemux through Dash, but with no success ever so far. :O – Jayaguru-Shishya Dec 27 '17 at 14:14
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    Try to sudo cp ~/desktop/avidemux.desktop /usr/share/applications, it will be shown in menu, and in dash, too. – Redbob Dec 27 '17 at 18:12
  • I get an error message: cp: cannot stat '/home/XXXXs/desktop/avidemux.desktop': No such file or directory. Hmm, I ran earlier XXXXs@XXXXs: /tmp/avidemux_2.6.20$ sudo bash bootStrap.bash, and I could find the only Avidemux related files from the following location: usr/share/app-install/ What am I ought to copy now, and to which location? And by what command? Thanks a lot, and happy New Year! :-) – Jayaguru-Shishya Jan 02 '18 at 13:28
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    If you followed my tutorial, at point 7 you created a launcher in your desktop. So repeat this command, but type sudo gedit /use/share/applications/avidemux.desktop with same contents of that launcher. Happy New Year! – Redbob Jan 02 '18 at 14:49
  • it works, kind of troublesome, but it seems to be the only option for Ubuntu 17 .... – Yan King Yin Apr 04 '18 at 14:18
  • @Redbob Thanks, I've never got this far installing avidemux_2.7.3 (one and half years have already passed, heh). Anyway, I received a CMake Error concerning Qt5Core. It says that it couldn't find package configuration with any of the following names: Qt5CoreConfig.cmake, or qt5core-config.cmake. At the end, it says that Configuring incomplete, errors occurred! ... ** Failed at cmakeZ** :-O – Jayaguru-Shishya Aug 07 '19 at 15:16
  • @Redbob Yeah, I've followed each one of your steps, including 6), 7), and the chmod +r ~/Desktop/avidemux.desktop one at the end. However, I still can't find Avidemux through Dash or anything. Running sudo cp ~/desktop/avidemux.desktop /usr/share/applications still returns me with the same cp: cannot stat '/home/XXXXs/desktop/avidemux.desktop': No such file or directory., even though I can see the avidemux.desktopfile right on my desktop. Moreover, running sudo gedit /usr/share/applications/avidemux.desktop, copy-pasting the content given at phase 7), and... – Jayaguru-Shishya Aug 07 '19 at 16:15
  • ...saving the file, nothing happens. Well, I get the following four warnings entries in terminal: 1) (org.gnome.gedit:17330): Gtk-WARNING **: 19:12:23.703: Calling org.freedesktop.portal.Inhibit.Inhibit failed: GDBus.Error:org.freedesktop.DBus.Error.UnknownMethod: No such interface “org.freedesktop.portal.Inhibit” on object at path /org/freedesktop/portal/desktop, 2) ** (org.gnome.gedit:17330): WARNING **: 19:12:26.203: Set document metadata failed: Setting attribute metadata::gedit-spell-language not supported, 3) ** (org.gnome.gedit:17330): WARNING **: 19:12:26.205: Set ... – Jayaguru-Shishya Aug 07 '19 at 16:24
  • ... document metadata failed: Setting attribute metadata::gedit-encoding not supported, and 4) * (org.gnome.gedit:17330): WARNING **: 19:12:29.353: Set document metadata failed: Setting attribute metadata::gedit-position not supported. I do have replaced the second line of avidemux.desktop, that is Version=2.6.20, with the actual version, Version=2.7.30. I don't know what to do next. I feel rather stupid and frustrated not even knowing how to RUN a program installed on my system. Ufff, but I still wouldn't want to give up with Linux ... although I such an ever-newbie I am :-P – Jayaguru-Shishya Aug 07 '19 at 16:28
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