How to rip DVDs using K3B in Kubuntu

K3B has DVD ripping disabled in Kubuntu. Fix it like this.

[2010-11-22]

The most help I found on how to do this is from tommcd on Ubuntu Forums. All that were missing were actual instructions on how to do it. And as it turns out, it's not much hassle at all.

We're going to install some libraries for reading and transcoding media, and then we're going to install K3B from its source package. It's simpler than it sounds. Open a terminal, and type the following commands as they appear after the "$" prompt:

$ sudo apt-get install transcode libdvdread-dev apt-src
$ sudo /usr/share/doc/libdvdread4/install-css.sh
$ apt-src update
$ mkdir -p ~/src/k3b
$ cd ~/src/k3b
$ sudo apt-src install -i k3b

The last step may take a little while. It will download all the source packages it requires, and build .deb packages from them. Then the "-i" switch will install them all. You can delete ~/src/k3b when you're done.

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