The Lightworks video editor becomes available for Linux tomorrow supposedly, but only for Ubuntu according to the developers.
Lightworks is a powerful, cross-platform professional video editor that has been used to cut many big-name movies over the years. It is "sort of" open source, not really at this point. But the point is that this is a really important piece of software for anyone wanting to edit video or even full 4K movies ... current Linux video editors are buggy and unreliable, Lightworks is true professional grade.
So, my question is, assuming that Lightworks is released as some kind of .deb package, how likely is it that it could be converted to .rpm?
I have some basic experience building RPMs and would be up for helping with this task.
Mike Hall
Extract it;
See the "control" file.
Find the correct names of dependencies in Fedora;
Rewrite and done.
Note never touching some deb2rpm tool, they are toys for fun.
Release is imminent according to the website ... On 30 Apr 2013 03:59, "Christopher Meng" cickumqt@gmail.com wrote:
Extract it;
See the "control" file.
Find the correct names of dependencies in Fedora;
Rewrite and done.
Note never touching some deb2rpm tool, they are toys for fun.
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On Mon, 2013-04-29 at 20:50 +0930, Michael Hall wrote:
The Lightworks video editor becomes available for Linux tomorrow supposedly, but only for Ubuntu according to the developers.
Lightworks is a powerful, cross-platform professional video editor that has been used to cut many big-name movies over the years. It is "sort of" open source, not really at this point. But the point is that this is a really important piece of software for anyone wanting to edit video or even full 4K movies ... current Linux video editors are buggy and unreliable, Lightworks is true professional grade.
So, my question is, assuming that Lightworks is released as some kind of .deb package, how likely is it that it could be converted to .rpm?
I have some basic experience building RPMs and would be up for helping with this task.
Mike Hall
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Is that really free software?
Volker Fröhlich
No it is not unfortunately. The developers are still promising to open source the code some time in the future. In the meantime, it is by far the best video editor I have ever seen on Linux. On 6 May 2013 17:49, "Christopher Meng" cickumqt@gmail.com wrote:
Of course not.
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Better try with rpmfusion then! The Fedora packaging list is not an adequate place for software that's not free, neither has source code available.
Volker
On Mon, 2013-05-06 at 19:50 +0930, Michael Hall wrote:
No it is not unfortunately. The developers are still promising to open source the code some time in the future. In the meantime, it is by far the best video editor I have ever seen on Linux.
On 6 May 2013 17:49, "Christopher Meng" cickumqt@gmail.com wrote: Of course not.
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OK well thanks for the help anyway. I hope to build a Fedora RPM of Lightworks from source before too long! On 6 May 2013 19:55, "Volker Fröhlich" volker27@gmx.at wrote:
Better try with rpmfusion then! The Fedora packaging list is not an adequate place for software that's not free, neither has source code available.
Volker
On Mon, 2013-05-06 at 19:50 +0930, Michael Hall wrote:
No it is not unfortunately. The developers are still promising to open source the code some time in the future. In the meantime, it is by far the best video editor I have ever seen on Linux.
On 6 May 2013 17:49, "Christopher Meng" cickumqt@gmail.com wrote: Of course not.
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Did I miss something or aren't we only allowed to package Free software for Fedora?
On Mon, May 6, 2013 at 6:20 PM, Michael Hall mike@mjhall.org wrote:
No it is not unfortunately. The developers are still promising to open source the code some time in the future. In the meantime, it is by far the best video editor I have ever seen on Linux. On 6 May 2013 17:49, "Christopher Meng" cickumqt@gmail.com wrote:
Of course not.
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On 05/06/2013 01:04 PM, Micah Roth wrote:
Did I miss something or aren't we only allowed to package Free software for Fedora?
No. The OP raised questions related issues on repackaging debian binary blobs to allow proper installation on Fedora systems.
This is a completely legitimate use-case outside outside of the Fedora distribution.
Ralf
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