MainActor repackaged to work on Ubuntu

Submitted by esavard on Thu, 08/07/2008 - 07:00.
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You will find here a repackaged .deb archive that includes the missing shared libraries and simlinks necessary for MainActor 5.5 to work on Ubuntu 8.04, 8.10, 9.04 and 9.10 (32/64 bits).

I tried this package on different variant of Ubuntu (Xubuntu, Kubuntu and Ubuntu Studio) and different architecture (32, 64 bits) and it worked.  If you have trouble installing MainActor, drop a line in the comment section.

To install MainActor, open a terminal and follow the steps below.

 

Note: the procedure is slightly different for Ubuntu 9.10 because libstdc++5 is now obsolete and is no more part of the distribution's packages.  So, libstdc++5 has to be installed manually or MainActor will not work on Ubuntu 9.10+.

 

 

Ubuntu 8.04, 8.10 & 9.04:

Download : mainactor-5.5-37.all.ubuntu-8.04.deb
  1. sudo apt-get install libaudio2 libstdc++5
  2. sudo dpkg -i ./mainactor-5.5-37.all.ubuntu-8.04.deb
  3. run MainActor : mactor on the command line or click MainActor icon in the main menu. 
 

Ubuntu 9.10:

Download : mainactor-5.5-37.all.ubuntu-8.04.deb and libstdc++5_3.3.6-17ubuntu1_i386.deb
  1. sudo apt-get install libaudio2
  2. sudo dpkg -i --force-architecture ./libstdc++5_3.3.6-17ubuntu1_i386.deb #(--force-architecture may not be necessary on 32 bits architecture -- not tested)
  3. sudo dpkg -i ./mainactor-5.5-37.all.ubuntu-8.04.deb
  4. run MainActor : mactor on the command line or click the MainActor icon in Ubuntu menu. 
 

Note: you will have a lot of warning messages if you run MainActor from the command line with Ubuntu 9.10 64 bits:

Conflict in /usr/lib/qt3/plugins/inputmethods/libqxim.so:

  Plugin uses incompatible Qt library!

  expected build key "i686 Linux g++-4.* full-config", 
got "x86_64 Linux g++-4.* full-config".

Those messages appear to be harmless, I was able to run MainActor and edit video even with them showing up.

 

Ubuntu 10.04:

This is the end of the road for MainActor repackaged deb archive...  I can't start MainActor anymore even if I use the libstdc++5 trick that was working for 9.10.

I get a Segmentation Fault when I start MainActor.  Apparently, it is caused by the FreeType library.  I don't know how to fix it nor how to work around it.  So, if you have more success than me, let me know what you did.

Until then : RIP MainActor, you will be missed... 

 

 


DISCLAIMER:

  • This is a (fully functional) demo version of MainActor. Unless you have a serial number to unlock MainActor exported video will have a watermark. Don't bother to ask me for a serial number, I will not provide you one.
  • This package is neither produced nor supported by MainConcept.