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In this post I will show you how to compile Handbrake for Debian Lenny. Please note that although the Handbrake GUI version does compile on Lenny, it crashes with a segmentation fault like this:

Gtk: gtk_widget_size_allocate(): attempt to allocate widget with width -5 and height 17

(ghb:1053): GStreamer-CRITICAL **: gst_element_set_state: assertion `GST_IS_ELEMENT (element)' failed

(ghb:1053): GStreamer-CRITICAL **: gst_element_set_state: assertion `GST_IS_ELEMENT (element)' failed

(ghb:1053): GLib-GObject-CRITICAL **: g_object_get: assertion `G_IS_OBJECT (object)' failed

Segmentation fault

So this post only describes how to compile the command-line version of Handbrake: HandBrakeCLI.

• Issue the following apt-get commando to install all required libraries and software:

apt-get install subversion yasm build-essential autoconf libtool zlib1g-dev libbz2-dev intltool libglib2.0-dev libpthread-stubs0-dev

1. Download the source code at http://sourceforge.net/projects/handbrake/files/

2. Extract the source code and cd into the new handbrake directory.

3. Compile handbrake like this:

./configure --disable-gtk --launch --force --launch-jobs=2

The --launch-jobs parameter determines how many parallel threads are used for compiling Handbrake, based on the number of CPU cores of your system. If you have a quad-core CPU you should set this value to 4.

The resulting binary is called HandBrakeCLI and can be found in the ./build directory. Issue a 'make install' to install this binary onto your system.

update november 2010: it is reported in the comments that the next release will support these controllers. However, which controllers are supported is not clear. Also, we may have to wait for quite some time before squeeze will be released.

Just a quick note: it seems that the new Dell RAID controllers are not supported by the current stable version of Debian: Lenny. The S300, H200 and H700 controllers as supplied with the R310, R410 and 'higher' systems, are thus not a great choice if you want to keep things 'stock'. You may have to run backported kernels and installer images and I couldn't figure out if these controllers actually work with these latest images.

The Perc 6/i controller is supported by Debian. It seems that it can only be supplied with the R410 and higher systems. If you have any additional information, like actual experience with these controllers, please report this.

I installed VMware ESX 4.1 and installed DEbian Lenny om top of that without problems.

Please note that the network cards of the R410 are still not supported and will cause a headache!

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