I am absolutely baffled by the absence of any sort of installation guide (or wiki as it’s usually said). This is very frustrating for newbies like me. I downloaded the tarball, extracted it but I have no idea how to run/install the thing. I looked up the website 4-5 times and there is no sign of any instruction whatsoever! So please! Tell me how to install this. I loved Motionbox when I tried it on windows the other day but on Linux I am unable to start the thing.
Summary:
Problem: Unable to get stated with installtion
Package name & arch: MotionBox-1.6.0-linux32 (Yes, I want to install the 32bit package, so please include this in your instruction)
My System: KUbuntu 19.10 64 bit
Greetings @idotman,
On Linux you have to run the start.sh script from the terminal. Hopefully I can come up with something more elegant in the future but that’s how it works currently.
I’m currently focused on the development, and unfortunately, have no time for documentation.
EDIT: There seems to be an issue with access rights on the Linux archive, I’ll keep you posted.
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Hi,
to solve the access right problem, you have to run these two commands in the MotionBox folder:
chmod +x ./start.sh
chmod +x ./MotionBox
@bunjee I can write a basic install&run documentation for major Linux distributions if needed.
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Okay brother, I understand you. No worries. I installed it fine through latest wine. It was just as convenient as it was on Windows. https://imgur.com/a/OtymJhK
Thank you so much for your work on this amazing software!
soot@soot-kubuntu:~/Downloads/Compressed/MotionBox-1.6.0$ chmod +x ./start.sh
soot@soot-kubuntu:~/Downloads/Compressed/MotionBox-1.6.0$ chmod +x ./MotionBox
soot@soot-kubuntu:~/Downloads/Compressed/MotionBox-1.6.0$
soot@soot-kubuntu:~/Downloads/Compressed/MotionBox-1.6.0$ sudo ./start.sh
[sudo] password for soot:
Starting MotionBox…
/home/soot/Downloads/Compressed/MotionBox-1.6.0/MotionBox: error while loading shared libraries: libvlc.so.5: cannot open shared object file: No such file or directory
soot@soot-kubuntu:~/Downloads/Compressed/MotionBox-1.6.0$ ./start.sh
Starting MotionBox…
/home/soot/Downloads/Compressed/MotionBox-1.6.0/MotionBox: error while loading shared libraries: libvlc.so.5: cannot open shared object file: No such file or directory
How do I install the dependencies?
That’s interesting I didn’t know MotionBox would run in Wine.
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Well currently you are supposed to install VLC first: sudo apt-get install vlc
When I made the Arch PKGBUILD file (which needed to generate Arch installer packages) I ran into this problem and I immediately added the chmod lines to the install script, but in progress I forgot to report it to you, so it’s my fault.
But at least it is not an issue on Arch. 
@idotman You don’t need sudo to run MotionBox, just type ./start.sh and Wine also not needed.
I’m working on the next revision that will have the proper permissions, VLC and libdouble-conversion.so.1 included.
I successfully made it run with just the ffmpeg dependency this afternoon \o/ !
I already have that package! It comes preinstalled on Kubuntu!
I tried without sudo too. Still unable to launch!
Could you try this build artifact: https://dev.azure.com/bunjee/MotionBox/_build/results?buildId=910&view=artifacts&type=publishedArtifacts
You only need to chmod +x MotionBox and then you should be good to go.
Well it’s just the download page for generated artifacts.
But that doesn’t matter because I pushed MotionBox 1.6.0-2 yesterday so you can get the latest archive from here: http://omega.gg/MotionBox/get
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@GPL, @idotman, I’m looking for someone to maintain an Ubuntu repository for MB if you are motivated or know someone 
@bunjee I am not using Ubuntu actively, but I will think about the possibility to maintain a Launchpad repo for it.
1.6.0-2… But the download page still downloads 1.6.0! Could you please build an appimage? That would be truly a blessing!
Hello, folks!
I was looking for reliable youtube client and I think I found it
But there is little interception while trying to build… The script ./3rdparty.sh linux says:
cp: cannot stat ‘/usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libQtWebKit.so.4.10.2’: No such file or directory
$ sudo apt-file search libQtWebKit.so.4
libqtwebkit4: /usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libQtWebKit.so.4
libqtwebkit4: /usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libQtWebKit.so.4.10
libqtwebkit4: /usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libQtWebKit.so.4.10.4
$ lsb_release -a
No LSB modules are available.
Distributor ID: Ubuntu
Description: Ubuntu 19.10
Release: 19.10
Codename: eoan
So, I tried to reinstall libQtWebKit.so.4 with Synaptic. Didn’t help.