Is K9copy available for Mageia 9

I did try
~]# urpmi -y k9copy
No package named k9copy

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On Fri, 1 Aug 2025 16:09:46 +1000, faeychild wrote:

Is K9copy available for Mageia 9

I did try
~]# urpmi -y k9copy
No package named k9copy

A search using mcc Install Software turned up nothing of that sort.
K9 k9 K9copy as search terms all failed.

Cheers!

jim b.



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On 01/08/2025 07:09, faeychild wrote:

Is K9copy available for Mageia 9

I did try
~]# urpmi -y k9copy
No package named k9copy

It appears to be a Mageia 8 package, and nobody ported it to 9.

https://rpmfind.net/linux/rpm2html/search.php?query=k9copy

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Ar wrote:

faeychild wrote:

Is K9copy available for Mageia 9

I did try
~]# urpmi -y k9copy
No package named k9copy

It appears to be a Mageia 8 package, and nobody ported it to 9.

https://rpmfind.net/linux/rpm2html/search.php?query=k9copy

There's some old history in AskUbuntu about k9copy (very long dead) and k9copy-reloaded (less long dead) and an Ub .ppa survived longer.

https://askubuntu.com/questions/1044276/how-to-install-k9copy-on-ubuntu-18-04

https://launchpad.net/%7Etomtomtom/+archive/ubuntu/k9copy

There the compiler said 'failed to build' 132 weeks ago.


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Mike Easter wrote:

faeychild wrote:

Is K9copy available for Mageia 9

There the compiler said 'failed to build' 132 weeks ago.

Does this discussion need to involve dealing w/ copy protection?

That is an important consideration in finding a DVD ripper.

eg HandBrake w/ or w/o libdvdcss
HandBrake isn't in the Mag repo/s

acidrip also needs libdvdcss for that css, acidrip is in the Mag repo/s,
but the lib needs the tainted repos enabled to get css.

I'm not very familiar w/ mageia; I found ways to add tainted repo/s but
I haven't managed to 'see' libdvdcss yet.



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Mike Easter wrote:

I found ways to add tainted repo/s but I haven't managed to 'see'
libdvdcss yet.

One place says that one can get the css at videolan.org, but that's a
404. Support discussions there say that the vlc packages contain the
lib, but the mageia repo discussions of vlc say that libdvdcss is NOT included.

I understand this libdvdcss topic is 'sensitive' or subject to
interpretation. I've seen the same sort of problem in Calibre and
Apprentice Alf's tools for DRM management.

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Mike Easter wrote:

Support discussions there say that the vlc packages contain the lib, but
the mageia repo discussions of vlc say that libdvdcss is NOT included.

For the 'record' my usual distro LM does have libdvdcss2 installed by
default, has HandBrake (and its cli variant) in the repo/s, but not acidrip.


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On Fri, 01 Aug 2025 02:09:46 -0400, faeychild <faeychild@nomail.afraid.org> wrote:

Is K9copy available for Mageia 9

I did try
~]# urpmi -y k9copy
No package named k9copy

No. According to messages from 2022 on the dev ml, there were discussion about dropping it
since k3b is available and there were problems building k9copy due to changes in packages
it depends on.

The package was actually dropped in March 2023.

Regards, Dave Hodgins

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On Fri, 01 Aug 2025 16:02:02 -0400, Mike Easter <MikeE@ster.invalid> wrote:

Mike Easter wrote:

faeychild wrote:

Is K9copy available for Mageia 9

There the compiler said 'failed to build' 132 weeks ago.

Does this discussion need to involve dealing w/ copy protection?

That is an important consideration in finding a DVD ripper.

eg HandBrake w/ or w/o libdvdcss
HandBrake isn't in the Mag repo/s

acidrip also needs libdvdcss for that css, acidrip is in the Mag repo/s,
but the lib needs the tainted repos enabled to get css.

I'm not very familiar w/ mageia; I found ways to add tainted repo/s but
I haven't managed to 'see' libdvdcss yet.

You likely don't have the tainted release repos enabled. http://mirror.math.princeton.edu/pub/mageia/distrib/9/i586/media/tainted/release/libdvdcss2-1.4.3-2.mga9.tainted.i586.rpm
http://mirror.math.princeton.edu/pub/mageia/distrib/9/x86_64/media/tainted/release/lib64dvdcss2-1.4.3-2.mga9.tainted.x86_64.rpm

Regards, Dave Hodgins

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On 2/8/25 03:55, David W. Hodgins wrote:

The package was actually dropped in March 2023.

Regards, Dave Hodgins

Thanks Dave!

I'm not entirely surprised. Optical media is deprecating

If I wasn't asked to burn a 6.5G ISO I would not have noticed either.
I have a tower of single layer DVD-R but no duels and I remembered
K9copy was a shrink program. It had saved me previously

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David W. Hodgins wrote:

You likely don't have the tainted release repos enabled.

Thanks.

In the package manager; you were correct; fixed that, but I still
haven't gotten there yet :-)

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On 2/8/25 03:55, David W. Hodgins wrote:

it depends on.

The package was actually dropped in March 2023.

Regards, Dave Hodgins

A bit of Google saved the day
Handbrake will reduce video file sizes.
Then to Mageia 6 for dvdstyler to author the ISO
Back to Mageia 9 to burn.
We got away with it,!

Regards Dave

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David W. Hodgins wrote:

k3b is available

k3b is very much a KDE-related tool, as it is based on qt5. It also
needs the tainted lib for css biz.

Some XFCE Mageia folks might not like all of those qt5 dependencies.

I don't know if that is a 'silly' attitude or not; I generally try to
stay w/ the toolkits my/a distro/DE 'came with'.

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