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This tutorial is not going to be for everybody, but if you have an interest in packaging you may soon find this tool priceless.   A chroot jail is a method by which you can safegaurd you current root filesystem from any changes that may occur during packaging as well as ensure a clean system on which to build your packages everytime.

To use this tutorial you are going to need a couple of packages to get started.

You can find them here, mkchroot and here, ro-chroot2

If the link does not work (just renders the text file) Try this..

wget http://vectorlinux.osuosl.org/Uelsk8s/mkchroot

wget http://vectorlinux.osuosl.org/Uelsk8s/ro-chroot2

Ok, so now the video…

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Kdenlive is considered the best of breed in the Linux Video editing category by many.  If you have covered the dependency tutorials then you are ready for this the final tutorial.  Creating a package of kdenlive for your own system or to contribute to the Vectorlinux repositories. Begin the tutorial here.

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MLT is a multimedia processing and authoring framework and a video playout server for television broadcasting.  This is the backend plugin for kdenlive and Openshot video editor.  It is a big reason why these Linux Video editors can do what they do.   This tutorial will show you how to package mlt so you can install it on your Vectorlinux system.    Begin tutorial here.

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Frei0r is a minimalistic plugin API for video sources and filters.  This library makes it easy for applications such as kdenlive or Openshot Video Editor to do video effects. Follow this tutorial and create a package you can install on to your Vectorlinux box, or even upload to the repositories so everyone can have it.  Begin tutorial here.

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The OpenJPEG library is an open-source JPEG 2000 codec written in C language. It has been developed in order to promote the use of JPEG 2000.  This tutorial will show you how to package this for the Vectorlinux repositories or just for your own system.  This also serves as the 2nd part in a series on installing kdenlive on Vectorlinux.

Begin the tutorial here

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FFmpeg is a complete, cross-platform solution to record, convert and stream audio and video.
It includes libavcodec – the leading audio/video codec library. It is always improving with each new
release, so it pays to upgrade. In this tutorial we are going to achieve 3 things.
1. How to upgrade ffmpeg through 3rd party SlackBuilds.
2. How to edit the SlackBuild to Vectorlinux standards.
3. How to create a package that is worthy of being contributed to the Vectorlinux repository.

Begin the tutorial here…

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I think Vectorlinux needs more people building packages. So instead of just packaging
k9copy myself and uploading it to the repositories, I’m going to show how it is done
and hopefully, I’ll see someone new, upload this as a new Vectorlinux package contributor.

k9copy. Package Building for Vectorlinux by example.

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