by Christian Einfeldt May 1, 2006
How to install Avidemux on Mepis or any Debian system
I have not been able to get Kino to edit .mpg files, and so I wanted to get a lightweight editor for doing some quick video editing under Linux. Also, as I mention in the parent page, I am supporting a public middle school with video editing on old Dell Optiplex GX110 boxes with 800 MHz? chips and 256 MB of RAM. So lightweight was important.
I did the install by becoming root, running apt-get update, and then running ap-get-install --reinstall aalib1 (that last character is a one, not a lower case L). I then went into Synaptic, enabled deb ftp://ftp.nerim.net/debian-marillat/ sarge main and then clicked reload on the repositories. I then clicked on the search button, typed in avidemux, and agreed to the notices that Synaptic gives you. Synaptic then proceeded to neatly install Avidemux, which I was able to launch either from a root prompt at the CLI, or by hitting Alt F2 and then typing Avidemux. Pretty simple, actually. My thanks to the Debian pool maintainers!