How to install VapourSynth-Editor on Ubuntu 16.04

To install VapourSynth-Editor on Ubuntu 16.04

VapourSynth-Editor is a simple application used for editing and previewing scripts for VapourSynth. It is simple to install the VapourSynth tool and this article sheds light on the installation process involved with VapourSynth Editor on Ubuntu.

Installing VapourSynth Editor

Before you start with the installation of VapourSynth Editor, make sure you add its repositories to your system with the help of the following command.

root@linuxhelp1:~# add-apt-repository ppa:djcj/hybrid
 Hybrid is a multi platform (Linux/Mac OS X/Windows) Qt based frontend for a bunch of other tools which can convert nearly every input to x264/x265/Xvid/VP9/... + ac3/ogg/mp3/aac/flac inside an mp4/m2ts/mkv/webm/mov/avi container, a Blu-ray or an AVCHD structure.

http://www.selur.de/
http://forum.selur.de/topic612-hybrid-tools-ubuntu-packages.html
 More info: https://launchpad.net/~djcj/+archive/ubuntu/hybrid
Press [ENTER] to continue or ctrl-c to cancel adding it

gpg: keyring `/tmp/tmphieo_php/secring.gpg'  created
gpg: keyring `/tmp/tmphieo_php/pubring.gpg'  created
gpg: requesting key D4B4972B from hkp server keyserver.ubuntu.com
gpg: /tmp/tmphieo_php/trustdb.gpg: trustdb created
gpg: key D4B4972B: public key " Launchpad PPA for djcj"  imported
gpg: Total number processed: 1
gpg:               imported: 1  (RSA: 1)
OK

Once it is done, update the newly added repositories as follows.

root@linuxhelp1:~# apt-get update
Get:1 http://ppa.launchpad.net/djcj/hybrid/ubuntu xenial InRelease [17.5 kB]
Hit:2 http://in.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu xenial InRelease                     
Get:3 http://security.ubuntu.com/ubuntu xenial-security InRelease [102 kB]     
Get:4 http://in.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu xenial-updates InRelease [102 kB]                                          
Get:5 http://ppa.launchpad.net/djcj/hybrid/ubuntu xenial/main amd64 Packages [15.3 kB]        
Get:6 http://ppa.launchpad.net/djcj/hybrid/ubuntu xenial/main i386 Packages [15.3 kB]                            
Get:7 http://ppa.launchpad.net/djcj/hybrid/ubuntu xenial/main Translation-en [9,480 B]       
Get:8 http://in.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu xenial-backports InRelease [102 kB]                    
Get:9 http://in.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu xenial-updates/main amd64 Packages [509 kB]
Get:10 http://in.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu xenial-updates/main i386 Packages [498 kB]                                               
Fetched 1,372 kB in 19s (71.9 kB/s)                                                                                                 
Reading package lists... Done

Once it is done, install the package by invoking the following command.

root@linuxhelp1:~# apt-get install vapoursynth-editor -y
Reading package lists... Done
Building dependency tree       
Reading state information... Done
The following additional packages will be installed:
  i965-va-driver libaacs0 libass5 libavcodec-ffmpeg56 libavformat-ffmpeg56 libavutil-ffmpeg54 libbdplus0 libbluray1 libcrystalhd3
  libgme0 libgsm1 liblept5 libmodplug1 libmp3lame0 libopenjp2-7 libopenjpeg5 libschroedinger-1.0-0 libshine3 libsnappy1v5 libsoxr0
  libssh-gcrypt-4 libswresample-ffmpeg1 libtesseract3 libtwolame0 libva1 libvapoursynth libvapoursynth-script0 libvdpau1
  libx264-148 libx265-79 libxvidcore4 libzimg2 libzvbi-common libzvbi0 mesa-vdpau-drivers va-driver-all vapoursynth-python3
  vdpau-driver-all vdpau-va-driver
Suggested packages:
  libbluray-bdj firmware-crystalhd libfglrx-amdxvba1 libvdpau-va-gl1 nvidia-vdpau-driver nvidia-legacy-340xx-vdpau-driver
The following NEW packages will be installed:
  i965-va-driver libaacs0 libass5 libavcodec-ffmpeg56 libavformat-ffmpeg56 libavutil-ffmpeg54 libbdplus0 libbluray1 libcrystalhd3
  libgme0 libgsm1 liblept5 libmodplug1 libmp3lame0 libopenjp2-7 libopenjpeg5 libschroedinger-1.0-0 libshine3 libsnappy1v5 libsoxr0
  libssh-gcrypt-4 libswresample-ffmpeg1 libtesseract3 libtwolame0 libva1 libvapoursynth libvapoursynth-script0 libvdpau1
  libx264-148 libx265-79 libxvidcore4 libzimg2 libzvbi-common libzvbi0 mesa-vdpau-drivers va-driver-all vapoursynth-editor
  vapoursynth-python3 vdpau-driver-all vdpau-va-driver
0 upgraded, 40 newly installed, 0 to remove and 475 not upgraded.
Need to get 15.4 MB of archives.
After this operation, 70.0 MB of additional disk space will be used.
Get:1 http://in.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu xenial/universe amd64 libcrystalhd3 amd64 1:0.0~git20110715.fdd2f19-11build1 [46.1 kB]
Get:2 http://ppa.launchpad.net/djcj/hybrid/ubuntu xenial/main amd64 libzimg2 amd64 2.4-1~xenial [135 kB]
Get:3 http://in.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu xenial/universe amd64 libgsm1 amd64 1.0.13-4 [27.1 kB]
Get:4 http://in.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu xenial/universe amd64 libschroedinger-1.0-0 amd64 1.0.11-2.1build1 [293 kB]
Get:5 http://ppa.launchpad.net/djcj/hybrid/ubuntu xenial/main amd64 vapoursynth-python3 amd64 36-2~xenial [223 kB]
Get:6 http://in.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu xenial/universe amd64 libaacs0 amd64 0.8.1-1 [47.4 kB]
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Setting up libvdpau1:amd64 (1.1.1-3ubuntu1) ...
Setting up mesa-vdpau-drivers:amd64 (12.0.6-0ubuntu0.16.04.1) ...
Setting up i965-va-driver:amd64 (1.7.0-1) ...
Setting up vdpau-va-driver:amd64 (0.7.4-5) ...
Setting up va-driver-all:amd64 (1.7.0-1) ...
Setting up vdpau-driver-all:amd64 (1.1.1-3ubuntu1) ...
Setting up vapoursynth-python3 (36-2~xenial) ...
Setting up libvapoursynth-script0 (36-2~xenial) ...
Setting up libvapoursynth (36-2~xenial) ...
Setting up vapoursynth-editor (8+ipc-2~xenial) ...
Processing triggers for libc-bin (2.23-0ubuntu3) ...

VapourSynth Editor has been installed. Use your Ubuntu dashboard to find and launch it.

The application resembles the one present in the below image.

You can remove the package by triggering the following command.

root@linuxhelp1:~# apt-get remove vapoursynth-editor -y
Reading package lists... Done
Building dependency tree       
Reading state information... Done
The following packages were automatically installed and are no longer required:
  i965-va-driver libaacs0 libass5 libavcodec-ffmpeg56 libavformat-ffmpeg56 libavutil-ffmpeg54 libbdplus0 libbluray1 libcrystalhd3
  libgme0 libgsm1 liblept5 libmodplug1 libmp3lame0 libopenjp2-7 libopenjpeg5 libschroedinger-1.0-0 libshine3 libsnappy1v5 libsoxr0
  libssh-gcrypt-4 libswresample-ffmpeg1 libtesseract3 libtwolame0 libva1 libvapoursynth libvapoursynth-script0 libvdpau1
  libx264-148 libx265-79 libxvidcore4 libzimg2 libzvbi-common libzvbi0 mesa-vdpau-drivers va-driver-all vapoursynth-python3
  vdpau-driver-all vdpau-va-driver
Use ' sudo apt autoremove'  to remove them.
The following packages will be REMOVED:
  vapoursynth-editor
0 upgraded, 0 newly installed, 1 to remove and 475 not upgraded.
After this operation, 760 kB disk space will be freed.
(Reading database ... 176908 files and directories currently installed.)
Removing vapoursynth-editor (8+ipc-2~xenial) ...
Processing triggers for hicolor-icon-theme (0.15-0ubuntu1) ...
Processing triggers for gnome-menus (3.13.3-6ubuntu3) ...
Processing triggers for desktop-file-utils (0.22-1ubuntu5) ...
Processing triggers for bamfdaemon (0.5.3~bzr0+16.04.20160415-0ubuntu1) ...
Rebuilding /usr/share/applications/bamf-2.index...
Processing triggers for mime-support (3.59ubuntu1) ...

Don' t you agree it was a simple installation? It is also so simple to edit your scripts with VapourSynth Editor.