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Hi new MX friends!

For those who may or may not know (or care) AV Linux, a Distribution for Content Creators since 2007 is moving to MX Linux for a base distribution, much of the reason for this is the great MX Community and the phenomenal Snapshot tools which are much better than any 3rd-party solutions out there. Of course for the time being any AV Linux respins based on MX will not be officially supported by MX but I hope in time we can pool our packaging resources and I can bring some Content Creation experience to MX. More info on that here: https://youtu.be/hoLmzybXk54

For this to happen means I need to learn A LOT about how to 'officially' package for the MX Repos and with a full time job and part-time studio to run this will take some time.. There is a big difference between simply 'building Debs' and formatting upstream sources for full and proper inclusion into a Debian repository. In the meantime I'd like to contribute in a small way so I will post a few packages here once in a while that are built on (and for) MX 19.2, these packages should be looked at as temporary until such time as they are built for the MX Repository but they are built from trusted sources (mostly github) and should install and run with proper dependencies but of course as with any 3rd-party Packages... INSTALL AT YOUR OWN RISK!! Please let me know if there are any missing dependencies and I will fix them ASAP..

1. AVIDEMUX 2.7.6... (Source: Sourceforge) If you're new to Linux or unfamiliar with commandline package tools like dpkg and apt you might want to skip this one..

This one is a bit of a PITA as it's Debian Packaging script splinters it into 879 individual packages (OK, I exaggerated...) which makes the order of installing with GDebi very convoluted... First you need libaften which is not available in Debian or MX Repos, It is only packaged by Deb-Multimedia so before doing anything you'll need libaften provided here:

http://bandshed.net/packages/AVL-MXE/libaften/ *NOTE You only need the 'dev' Package if you plan on building Avidemux for yourself in the future...

Once libaften is installed you can get the Avidemux Packages (including a custom launcher) here:

http://bandshed.net/packages/AVL-MXE/avidemux/

I suggest installing all of the Avidemux packages as Root (or sudo) with: after which you will probably get a frightful amount of terminal messages about missing dependencies since dpkg doesn't handle them for you... After dpkg poops on your carpet you should be able to mop up the mess by following up the dpkg command with this (again as Root or sudo): This should fix the missing dependencies..

2. HYDROGEN DRUM MACHINE 1.0.0 (Source: Github)

Unlike Avidemux this will hopefully be a simple Gdebi job, get it here:

http://bandshed.net/packages/AVL-MXE/hydrogen/ *NOTE Unless you want to do some heavy debugging for the Hydrogen developers you don't need the 'dbgsym' package..

3. YOSHIMI (synthesizer) (Source: Github)

Also hopefully a simple install with GDebi, it will provide Yoshimi both as a Standalone and an LV2 Plugin for use in hosts like Ardour or Qtractor, get it here:

http://bandshed.net/packages/AVL-MXE/yoshimi/

4. OLIVE-EDITOR 1.X GIT (Video Editor) (Source Github)

A very lightweight and compact Video Editor in early development but quite usable at this point..

http://bandshed.net/packages/AVL-MXE/ol ... _amd64.deb


This is it for now, more to come in the near future... If you've been brave enough to install please report any installations or runtime dependency issues in this thread, for questions about the apps themselves prolly best to ring up their websites...

AVLinux wrote: Mon Aug 03, 2020 10:58 pm Here are some multimedia packages that I have built while working on merging AV Linux with MX 19.2, these packages will be included in the future ISO release but if there are some MX Users doing Audio or Video Production work maybe they will be useful. AV Linux has it's own repository for it's custom Kernels but there is currently not a Package repository since it is for the most part maintained by one guy (me!) and in years past work has been focused on the annual ISO releases instead of Repositories. You can be assured that these packages are from clean trusted upstream sources but of course as with any 3rd-party Packages... INSTALL AT YOUR OWN RISK!! Please let me know if there are any missing dependencies and I will fix them ASAP..

Glen, I thought we would see a thread like this sooner or later so I might as well derail this thread a bit quick.

Wouldn't it be better to get any updated versions of these into our repos if possible? This would benefit you and all users much better in my opinion. Continue to do what you are doing, I just think we (MX and AVLinux) can kill a few birds with one stone.

I've talked to Stevo about it briefly and was going to wait to talk to you... but I might as well send a PM now.

I could have sworn cool retro term was in our repos, thanks to Stevo , but with the copyrighted music removed.

Did you check the Mx stable and test repos?

Cool Retro Term doesn't have any music, that was the hollywood package. Both are actually in upstream Debian, so we have them in the repos (see repology.org, a cool site for checking stuff like this https://repology.org/project/cool-retro-term/versions ). I actually got the Debian package maintainer to remove the music from hollywood by asking Debian users to file a bug report...

IDK if we have libaften in the MX repo---I don't think so if avidemux is the only package that requires it. We, Debian, and Ubuntu haven't hosted the program in the past because of some patent problems, but maybe those have expired like the mp3 one.

Anyway, you can use Thunar in MX, or Dolphin in the KDE beta, to install multiple debs as once to get around gdebi's lameness, or search the forum for my post on how to use "local-apt-repository" to throw all the debs at once into a folder and have it act like they are in the repos. I use it for testing stuff like Mesa or Nvidia driver updates which actually are a whole mess of debs and require both amd64 and i386 packages be available--too much of a pain to do manually when I can run run a little script to copy the debs into the folder and then do the rebuild command. Then they just magically appear in MX updater after I update apt.

Hi folks,

Hmmm I thought I had done a search for CRT before I grabbed the latest source and came up blank but I have been hopping back and forth incessantly from MX to current AVL 2020 these days so I might have gotten confused... note I don't have your testing repos enabled, lol I'm juggling enough knives already... That 'local-apt-repo' thingie sounds very interesting!

CRT is in the test repo, though it seems we could move it to main...Repology is a nice site for scanning our main and test repos; I use it constantly, or seeing what other distros/upstream Debian have packaged.

It doesn't cover PPAs or the OBS, though.

Stevo wrote: Tue Aug 04, 2020 1:13 am CRT is in the test repo, though it seems we could move it to main...Repology is a nice site for scanning our main and test repos; I use it constantly, or seeing what other distros/upstream Debian have packaged.

It doesn't cover PPAs or the OBS, though.

OK got it, I removed CRT from my post..

AVLinux wrote: Mon Aug 03, 2020 11:56 pm Hi folks,

Hmmm I thought I had done a search for CRT before I grabbed the latest source and came up blank but I have been hopping back and forth incessantly from MX to current AVL 2020 these days so I might have gotten confused... note I don't have your testing repos enabled, lol I'm juggling enough knives already... That 'local-apt-repo' thingie sounds very interesting!

MX Test Repo is not Debian Testing, just to be clear. It's a repo containing upgraded/backported or new packages not found in Debian Stable, which have not been moved to MX's stable repo because the packages have not received enough feedback on whether they work well or have any issues. As such, Test Repo is not permanently enabled by default. That might be why your search did not unearth CRT.

However, the Test Repo can be easily searched and browsed via the Test Repo tab in MX Packageinstaller. MXPI temporarily enables the Test Repo for searches and installation. Once you close MXPI, Test Repo is disabled again.

@asqwerth

OK, I understand that better now, thanks for clarifying, I'm still getting accustomed to MX Tools like MXPI, really no need for Synaptic on an MX System is there..? Synaptic is a bit kludgy for me sometimes on MX..

OK,

After some detailed discussion with @SwampRabbit and @Stevo work will commence on getting some of these apps into the MX Repos but that will take some time and I have too many things on the go right now so it will probably take a few months for my schedule to clear and for the slower winter months to allow me to both finish an Alpha AVL-MXE ISO with complete documentation and then go to proper "Packaging School". In the meantime I will occasionally post some 'local-build' Debs here until such time as I start uploading to the MX Repos..

So... in the first post I have attempted to clarify where things are at, Hydrogen has been updated to it's 1.0.0 full release and Olive-Editor Video Editor has been added..