How to install Lives on Debian 8.3

How to install Lives on Debian 8.3

The Lives is a video editing software and VJ tool written in C, Perl, and Python. It mixes real time video performance and non-linear editing in one application. It is compatible with various effects framworks. This tutorial covers the ground on how to install Lives on Debian.

Installation procedure

To start the installation procedure, first add the repo in the target system using the nano command.

root@linuxhelp:~# nano /etc/apt/sources.list

A source file opens, add these two lines in the file. Save and exit from the file.

deb http://ftp.debian.org/debian/ stable main contrib non-free
deb http://ftp.de.debian.org/debian jessie main

Next update the apt source in the system.

root@linuxhelp:~# apt-get update
Get:1 http://ftp.debian.org jessie-updates InRelease [145 kB]
Ign http://ftp.de.debian.org jessie InRelease          
Hit http://ftp.de.debian.org jessie Release.gpg        
Hit http://ftp.de.debian.org jessie Release
Hit http://ftp.de.debian.org jessie/main amd64 Packages  
Ign http://ftp.debian.org stable InRelease                                    
Hit http://ftp.de.debian.org jessie/main Translation-en       
Get:2 http://ftp.debian.org jessie-updates/main Sources [15.5 kB]
Get:3 http://ftp.debian.org jessie-updates/contrib Sources [32 B]
Get:4 http://ftp.debian.org jessie-updates/main amd64 Packages/DiffIndex [7,408 B]
Get:5 http://ftp.debian.org jessie-updates/contrib amd64 Packages [32 B]
Get:6 http://ftp.debian.org jessie-updates/contrib Translation-en [14 B]
Get:7 http://ftp.debian.org jessie-updates/main Translation-en/DiffIndex [2,704 B]
Hit http://ftp.debian.org stable Release.gpg                       
Hit http://ftp.debian.org stable Release          
Hit http://ftp.debian.org stable/main amd64 Packages
Hit http://ftp.debian.org stable/contrib amd64 Packages
Hit http://ftp.debian.org stable/non-free amd64 Packages
Hit http://ftp.debian.org stable/contrib Translation-en
Hit http://ftp.debian.org stable/main Translation-en
Hit http://ftp.debian.org stable/non-free Translation-en
Fetched 171 kB in 4s (36.4 kB/s)            
Reading package lists... Done

Now install the lives package and run the following command.

root@linuxhelp:~# apt-get install lives
Reading package lists... Done
Building dependency tree      
Reading state information... Done
The following extra packages will be installed:
  dvgrab frei0r-plugins icedax libav-tools libavdevice55 libavfilter5
  libboost-filesystem1.55.0 libboost-regex1.55.0 libbs2b0 libebml4 libgavl1
  libglee0d1 libmatroska6 liboil0.3 libopencv-gpu2.4 libopencv-ol2.4
  libopencv-photo2.4 libopencv-stitching2.4 libopencv-superres2.4
  libopencv-ts2.4 libopencv-videostab2.4 libpostproc52 libquicktime2
  libsox-fmt-alsa libsox-fmt-base libsox2 libtheora-bin libunicap2 libweed0
  lives-data lives-plugins mkvtoolnix mplayer2 ogmtools rtmpdump sox
  youtube-dl
Suggested packages:
  opencv-data vorbis-tools cdrkit-doc libsox-fmt-all libunicap-docs libdv-bin
  mjpegtools mkvtoolnix-gui
Recommended packages:
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Setting up icedax (9:1.1.11-3) ...
Setting up liboil0.3 (0.3.17-2) ...
Setting up libpostproc52 (6:0.git20120821-4) ...
Setting up libsox-fmt-alsa:amd64 (14.4.1-5) ...
Setting up libsox-fmt-base:amd64 (14.4.1-5) ..
Setting up libtheora-bin (1.1.1+dfsg.1-6) ...
Setting up libunicap2 (0.9.12-2) ...
Setting up lives-data (2.2.6~ds0-1) ..
Setting up libbs2b0 (3.1.0+dfsg-2.1) ...
Setting up mplayer2 (2.0-728-g2c378c7-4+b1) ...
Setting up ogmtools (1:1.5-3+b1) ...
Setting up sox (14.4.1-5) .
Setting up lives (2.2.6~ds0-1) ...
Setting up mkvtoolnix (7.3.0-1) ...
update-alternatives: using /usr/bin/mkvinfo-text to provide /usr/bin/mkvinfo (mkvinfo) in auto mode
Setting up dvgrab (3.5-2+b2) ...
Setting up rtmpdump (2.4+20150115.gita107cef-1) ...
Setting up youtube-dl (2014.08.05-1+deb8u1) ...
Processing triggers for libc-bin (2.19-18+deb8u2) ...

Next click the activities window and type lives. Click on the icon for the application to run.

The Lives application is running and now you can use for video editing files.

Wasn' t that an easy instllation? Lives support over 50 video and audio file formats like MPEG4, MPEG, H.264, MP4, VCD, etc.