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## Re: DVDStyler on Wheezy

Sun Feb 24, 2013 11:14 pm

Thanks for trying above and beyond. I need to check if any debian based distros have it working. Maybe it would be possible to work off one of those? I'll PM stevepusser at FDN and see what he says. Thanks for the suggestion.
PS. Did you try with these sources? Don't get excited about the link to install on Debian. It is outdated and doesn't have anything useful.
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## Re: DVDStyler on Wheezy

Mon Feb 25, 2013 12:03 pm

see if I got time to fiddle more with it today
any certain version of dvdstyler or anything?
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## Re: DVDStyler on Wheezy

Mon Feb 25, 2013 4:08 pm

> meandean wrote:see if I got time to fiddle more with it today
> any certain version of dvdstyler or anything?

Thanks. I'll take any version that works. The one on squeeze worked very well. I PM'd stevepusser but he hasn't seen it yet.
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## Re: DVDStyler on Wheezy

Mon Feb 25, 2013 5:08 pm

DVDstyler is in the repos for SolusOS 1.3 and seems to run OK but I have no idea how to use it
http://www.solusos.com/download
Another way would be to run the windows version in virtualbox, I've got a windows 7 ultimate lite that I exported as a .ova file it's only 608 MB, it's a lot easier importing .ova's than installing OS's, 5 min job.
golinux

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## Re: DVDStyler on Wheezy

Mon Feb 25, 2013 5:34 pm

> ukbrian wrote:DVDstyler is in the repos for SolusOS 1.3 and seems to run OK but I have no idea how to use it
> http://www.solusos.com/download

It runs on squeeze too so that is a lateral option. The question is does it run on SolusOS 2?

> ukbrian wrote:Another way would be to run the windows version in virtualbox, I've got a windows 7 ultimate lite that I exported as a .ova file it's only 608 MB, it's a lot easier importing .ova's than installing OS's, 5 min job.

I will never EVER have windows again on one of my computers. Not EVER!!!!
(Yeah. Real hardass . . .)
Thanks for trying . . .
golinux

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## Re: DVDStyler on Wheezy

Tue Feb 26, 2013 3:40 am

stevepusser said he will have a look at it and since dvdstyler-2.3.4 is in Ubuntu Raring, that will be his first stop to pull source files. He also requested that I start a thread at FDN so head over there to keep track of his progress . . .
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## Re: DVDStyler on Wheezy

Tue Feb 26, 2013 3:50 pm

OK. There seems to be a way to do it. I'll do my best to decipher the process but it's a little much for me to follow. Any assistance would be appreciated. If you could offer this in Refracta, it could bring in new users . . .
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## Re: DVDStyler on Wheezy

Tue Feb 26, 2013 4:46 pm

On a site note: If you don't understand such an answer, there is nothing wrong with asking again. This is not an easy subject, to be understood in an instant (perhaps it can never be understood).
What i understand is this:
1) You download the Ubuntu source. I am not sure from where (you will probably download *dsc and *orig.tar.gz and *diff.gz.
In that directory run "dpkg-source -x *dsc" to create a source directory.
2) In another directory you run
apt-get source libwxgtk2.8-0
Adapt the version number
3) You now got two directories, one with the debian source and one with the ubuntu source.
Inside of each you got:
wxwidgets2.8-2.8.10.1
adapt the version number
change to that directory
4) Inside of that you got the debian/ folder.
What stevepusser said, assuming i understood him correct, is that if you:
- edit debian/control and add the dependencies which are additional in the Ubuntu directory (with the right debian version) and
- copy and paste the extra lines from debian/rules from Ubuntu directory to debian/rules form Debian directory.
That is what i understood.
-----------------------------------
In short:
- download both sources
- focus on two files: debian/control and debian/rules
- add the extra Build-Depends: dependencies mentioned in Ubuntu debian/control to Debian debian/control
- copy and paste the extra steps from Ubuntu debian/rules to Debian debian/rules
- build it
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## Re: DVDStyler on Wheezy

Tue Feb 26, 2013 5:32 pm

Thanks for taking the time to post that. Understanding such is going to be a long-term, non-linear process for me. In the meantime, please see stevepusser's latest post. If he builds a .deb for Mepis, I’ll just get it there . . . and hopefully it will be compatible with refracta and not break other stuff.
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## Re: DVDStyler on Wheezy

Tue Feb 26, 2013 5:48 pm

Yeah, i just read his post.
See: he is experienced and you are in good hands.
I try to squeeze some sense out of what i read and do, but am sure _not_ experienced (so what i say might always contain errors and nonsense).
I explain it more to myself than to you.
And you are right:
This is a long term process.
Just pop it around the head a bit. Let it go. Start again (or let it fully go, nothing wrong with that).
What usually is easy to build is a version from testing for stable (as long it's not a huge package like iceweasel ... often building from testing for stable really is easy. I think that is a good start, while this, libwxgtk, is a tough one, it seems).
As one example:
I wanted to build aircrack for raspberry (arm architecture), as it was not available (i didn't use it, iin the end, but anyway).
I could copy the whole debian/ folder inside of the source directory.
Run "dpkg-buildpackage"
Foo: it worked.
(well: similar to that. What i say is: you often can copy the whole debian/ folder around, also from older versions of debian, and are done).
More a question of organisation (which folder is where? from where to where do i need to copy? ) than a question of being a foo-master of building.
That mainly takes time. The hard packages are for the developers, who can solve tricky problems (usually with patches, with debhelper commands inside of debian/rules and with things i didn't hear of yet)
Let's hope he will succeed.
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