[PLUG] Vobsub2srt

[John Jason Jordan]

On Mon, 12 Sep 2022 15:01:14 -0500
Bill Barry <wabarry at gmail.com> dijo:

>The instructions for installing in in Ubuntu 12.1 are given in this
>github repository
> https://github.com/ruediger/VobSub2SRT

Doesn't work on 22.04.

I had a PPA for vobsub2srt, but it was removed by the upgrade from
20.04 to 22.04. I re-enabled it, and now when I run sudo apt update I
get an Atlanta warning for 185.125.190.52 443, because that's what's
encoded in the PPA, and now Ubuntu needs . . . 53.

I decided to continue trying to build vobsub2srt from source, starting
by removing the snap package. 'Sudo snap remove vobsub2srt' exited
without error, but also without removing vobsub2srt. That is to say,
'vobsub2srt filename' still tries to execute and the man page is still
installed. Apparently installing a snap package is forever.

I remember when I first installed Ubuntu in 2005. At that time the
repos had packages for just about everything, but in case you needed
something that was available only in RPM, Ubuntu came with 'alien,'
which could convert an RPM to a DEB. I used alien half a dozen times,
and it always worked perfectly.

Note to Ubuntu: If you don't like Debian and apt, that's fine with me,
but give me an 'alien' so I can convert DEBs to snaps, or flatpacks, or
appimages, or whatever you think is God's gift to mankind. Don't
convert half the packages and leave the rest flopping around and
incompatible with everything else. Do it all the way or not at all.