dvd::rip is a DVD ripping GUI application. The nicest thing about dvd::rip in my opinion is that the "Logging" tab give you step by step every command line that was executed to produce the information provided in the GUI.

To get dvd::rip installed, you first have to meet some dependencies.. here is a nice table layout of what you have to have to run dvd:rip and what is suggested along with what functions these dependencies provide.

The official Debian repositories won't have all of the software that we mention today, so you will need to add the following repository to your apt repositories.

deb http://www.debian-multimedia.org main

If you use the GUI to do so, it should be obvious or if you opt to do it from the command line, become root and add that line to the bottom of the file /etc/apt/sources.list and then run

apt-get update

to update your available package list.

Now we can get on to installing dvd::rip with the following command.

apt-get install dvdrip rar vcdimager mjpegtools subtitleripper mplayer libdvdcss2

Now the package dvdrip will require some other packages and suggest some others, but we are just going to go ahead and put the suggested ones that we want right into the same command.

If you want to see the required and suggested packages before you install dvdrip, just run the command

apt-cache show dvdrip

and look at the Depends: and Suggests: lines.