How to Install Handbrake on Ubuntu 10.04 Lucid Lynx

// August 12th, 2010 // Code, Featured, Video

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HandBrake is an open-source, GPL-licensed, multi-platform, multi-threaded video trans-coder, available for MacOS X, Linux and Windows. In this tutorial I’ll walk you through setting up the latest version of HandBrake on Ubuntu 10.04 Lucid Lynx, it is rather easy.
Unfortunately, however, as of Ubuntu 9.10 they no longer have their latest version of the installer available for Ubuntu on their website — “HandBrake 0.9.4 is no longer available due to compatibility issues with the newer version of gnome”.
No fear my friends, HandBrake can still be installed using their snapshots. According to their site, “These are not stable releases. They are unstable (and undocumented) code which will one day lead to the next stable release of HandBrake. They are only recommended for experienced users and developers”. Well, I’ve installed it following the steps below and it works just fine, I had no issues, so go ahead and feel free to give it a shot. Here’s what we do:

Open a terminal and enter: sudo add-apt-repository ppa:stebbins/handbrake-snapshots

you@yourcomputer:$ sudo add-apt-repository ppa:stebbins/handbrake-snapshots
Executing: gpg --ignore-time-conflict --no-options --no-default-keyring --secret-keyring /etc/apt/secring.gpg --trustdb-name /etc/apt/trustdb.gpg --keyring /etc/apt/trusted.gpg --primary-keyring /etc/apt/trusted.gpg --keyserver keyserver.ubuntu.com --recv 43D3A9F60C58A7169778E6FB8771ADB0816950D8
gpg: requesting key 816950D8 from hkp server keyserver.ubuntu.com
gpg: key 816950D8: public key "Launchpad HandBrake Snapshots" imported
gpg: Total number processed: 1
gpg:               imported: 1  (RSA: 1)
you@yourcomputer:$

Your system will now fetch the PPA’s key. This enables your Ubuntu system to verify that the packages in the PPA have not been interfered with since they were built. Now you should tell your system to pull down the latest list of software from each archive it knows about, including the PPA you just added:

Open a terminal and enter: sudo apt-get update

sudo apt-get update

Now on the same terminal, type: sudo apt-get install handbrake-gtk

sudo apt-get install handbrake-gtk

That’s it, now you should be able to trans-code all your videos, just go to Applications -> Sound & Video -> HandBrake and have fun.
I hope this step by step tutorial has helped you some. Thank you for stopping by and please share with others, after all, code should be free.foscode.com | because code should be free

9 Responses to “How to Install Handbrake on Ubuntu 10.04 Lucid Lynx”

  1. avatar hugster says:
    October 12, 2010 at 15:47

    Hello there… I was braking my head trying to make Handbrake work in my fresh instalation of Ubuntu 10.04 but Thanks so much for the advice… :D it was a lot easy than what I thought… :D I am so happy!!!

  2. avatar Dan says:
    October 17, 2010 at 16:11

    @hugster: Glad the post helped you. I had to look around as well until I found a simpler way of going about it.

  3. avatar Rick says:
    November 8, 2010 at 12:55

    Dan, I used your tutorial to Install Handbrake On Ubuntu 10.10 Maverick Meerkat. It worked flawlessly. Thanks, Rick

  4. avatar Dan says:
    November 16, 2010 at 21:22

    @rick: Thanks for the kind words, glad the tutorial helped.

  5. avatar Mike says:
    February 25, 2011 at 16:42

    Hey, Thanks for the tutorial, very helpful for new linux users such as myself. Much apreciated! Cheers

  6. avatar Dan says:
    March 5, 2011 at 11:03

    @Mike You’re welcome. Thanks for stopping by, I’m glad I was able to help you. We’ve all been there and I wish there were sites like mine years ago when I first started learning linux.

  7. avatar chris says:
    June 12, 2011 at 21:09

    Great job, man. This really helped me out. Quick and easy!

  8. avatar Dan says:
    June 13, 2011 at 07:50

    @Chris Thanks for the nice comments, glad I was able to help you out.

  9. avatar fss says:
    April 29, 2012 at 04:14

    Works for LinuxMint 12 also ! thanks

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