Install CLI Only?

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jbrickley
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Install CLI Only?

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Running Ubuntu 16.04 and have added the official apt-get repository and installed handbrake-cli however there is no executable installed. I wish to run Handbrake on a headless server and use it to re-encode video files without needing to resort to ffmpeg.

Is the GTK GUI required? I do not wish to install hundreds of dependencies along with X-Windows, etc.
jbrickley
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Re: Install CLI Only?

Post by jbrickley »

Oh silly me. Linux is case sensitive and someone thought they would be cute to make the executable "HandBrakeCLI" and not "handbrakecli" which would be expected as camel case isn't the norm for *nix executables. /usr/bin/HandBrakeCLI

BASH / ZSH alias and functions here I come...
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