Shell script to install libdvdcss under Debian GNU Linux to play DVDs that use css for encryption
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#!/bin/sh # Shell script to install libdvdcss under Debian GNU Linux # Many DVDs use css for encryption. To play these discs, a special library # is needed to decode them, libdvdcss. Due to legal problems, Debian and most # Linux distibutions cannot distribute libdvdcss # Use this shell script to install the libdvdcss under DEBIN GNU/Linux # -------------------------------------------------------------------------- # Refer url for more info: # Copyright info - http://www.dtek.chalmers.se/~dvd/ # ------------------------------------------------------------------------- # This script is part of nixCraft shell script collection (NSSC) # Visit http://bash.cyberciti.biz/ for more information. # ------------------------------------------------------------------------- set -e site=http://www.dtek.chalmers.se/groups/dvd/deb/ arch=$(dpkg --print-installation-architecture) soname=2 uversion=1.2.5 #available="alpha hppa i386 ia64 powerpc s390 sparc" available="i386" version=${uversion}-1 if ! type wget > /dev/null ; then echo "Install wget and run this script again" exit 1 fi for a in $available; do if [ "$a" = "$arch" ]; then wget ${site}libdvdcss${soname}_${version}_${arch}.deb -O /tmp/libdvdcss.deb dpkg -i /tmp/libdvdcss.deb exit $? fi done echo "No binary deb available. Will try to build and install it." echo "You need to have debhelper, dpkg-dev and fakeroot installed." echo "If not, interrupt now, install them and rerun this script." echo "" echo "This is higly experimental, look out for what happens below." echo "If you want to stop, interrupt now (control-c), else press" echo "return to proceed" read dum mkdir -p /tmp/dvd cd /tmp/dvd wget ${site}libdvdcss_${uversion}.orig.tar.gz wget ${site}libdvdcss_${version}.diff.gz wget ${site}libdvdcss_${version}.dsc dpkg-source -x libdvdcss_${version}.dsc cd libdvdcss-${uversion} fakeroot ./debian/rules binary echo "Any problems? Interrupt now (control-c) and try to fix" echo "manually, else go on and install (return)." dpkg -i ../libdvdcss${soname}_${version}_${arch}.deb
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Tags: chalmers, control c, deb, debian gnu, dpkg, echo echo, echo return, exit 1, hppa, info copyright, libdvdcss, powerpc, rerun, s390, script collection, shell script, sparc, special library, tar gz, tmp ~ Last updated on: April 9, 2008
There is bug:
Replace
#available=”alpha hppa i386 ia64 powerpc s390 sparc”
available=”i386″
With
available=”alpha amd64 hppa i386 ia64 powerpc s390 sparc”
#available=”i386″
and it works for all architecture including amd64.