DVD Backups

[Ed Fletcher]

Hi All:

I'm wondering what software you use to make . . . um . . . backups of 
DVDs under Ubuntu.  I've tried to install dvdrip with Synaptic.  It's 
under Status > New in repository.  (Haven't seen that classification 
before.)  But it fails and reports that dvdrip depends on transcode, 
which will not be installed.  So I tried to install transcode first, but 
that fails and reports that:

Could not mark all packages for installation or upgrade.  The following 
packages have unresolvable dependencies.  Make sure that all required 
repositories are added and enabled in preferences.

transcode:
  Depends: libavifile-0.7c102 but it is not installable
  Depends: libjasper-1.701-1 but it is not installable
  Depends: libpng12-0 but 1.2.5.0-7ubuntu1 is to be installed
  Depends: libquicktime1 but it is not going to be installed

I have all the standard repositories enabled plus universe and 
ftp://ftp.nerim.net/debian-marillat/   unstable   main

I can find and download all of these but I would prefer to let Synaptic 
handle things if I can tell it where to find them.  Being an old 
Slackware user, I'm unfamiliar with apt-get and dpkg.

Thanks,
Ed
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Ed Fletcher
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