Objective
The objective is to install xVideothief on Linux Mint with all necessary prerequisites and additional plugins
Operating System and Software Versions
- Operating System: – Linux Mint 19 or higher
- Software: – xVideothief 2.5.1
Requirements
Privileged access to your Linux Mint System as root or via sudo command is required.
Difficulty
EASY
Conventions
- # – requires given linux commands to be executed with root privileges either directly as a root user or by use of
sudocommand - $ – given linux commands to be executed as a regular non-privileged user
Instructions
Install Prerequisites
The fisrt step is to install all necessary prerequisites, codecs and plugins in order to download, install and run the xVideoThief software. Open up terminal and enter the following Linux commands:
$ sudo apt update $ sudo apt install ffmpeg mint-meta-codecs qtscript5-dev qt5-default
Download xVideoThief
The first step is to download the xVideoThief Compressed Package (dynamic version package). Most likely you need to download the 64bit version.
$ wget -O /tmp/xVST.tar.gz http://downloads.sourceforge.net/xviservicethief/xVST_2_5_1_x64-linux-dynamic.tar.gz
Install xVideoThief
The xVideoThief installation package is now located in the /tmp/ directory. Navigate to the /tmp/ directory and execute the following commands:
$ cd /tmp $ tar xf xVST.tar.gz $ ./install
In case this is not your first installation you may see an error message produced by the ./install command which you can simply ignore.
The xVideoThief installation is now complete.
Start xVideoThief Program
Once the installation is completed you can start xVideoThief Program by using the following command:
$ ~/xVideoServiceThief/xvst
Upon a first launch the xVideoThief Program will perform plugin update and exit. To start the xVideoThief simply execute the above command again.
