How to install simplescreenrecorder on old version of Debian?

Hi All,

My Maho 400E is still running an old version of Debian, with XFCE, that would have been the live CD back in about 2019. For my videos, I need to install simplescreenrecorder, as pointing a camera at the screen is lame.

I have tried:
sudo apt-add-repository ppa:maarten-baert/simplescreenrecorder
sudo apt update
This fails with "unable to locate simplescreenrecorder."

Please help with this. I seem to forget all linux knowledge the instant whatever I was trying to do gets done
Cheers,
Mark

 

No idea, but you can always use OBS-Studio
sudo apt install obs-studio

I could but that is a pretty huge overhead on a old pc. 

Well you could try upgrading to Trixie which has linuxcnc 2.95 and simplescreen recorder as standards. 2.97 is included in testing so you can use APT pinning to get 2.9.7 

packages.debian.org/search?keywords=simp...e=trixie§ion=all

I am sticking with LCNC 2.7, as it will be a risk to update to 2.9, given the switch to joints, and the gearbox comp I have working. 

I really just want simpescreenrecorder. I use this on both my lathes. I just have little clue of how to get the repository working.

I also tried this method, but it also failed.

 

Hi,

maybe a silly idea. but you could install Teamviewer and record the screen on your Cutter-PC.

i use Teamviewer all the time on my machines and i cant note any lag.


Greetings
Tom

A bit left field but if this is for your YouTube channel, I use a video switcher and send the Linuxcnc monitor to one input on the switcher ( I had to buy a VGA to HDMI adapter for one machine). The video and audio (from a seperate microphone) gets recorded to SD card on the switcher and I can do picture in picture etc when recording.
I use a MovMagic switcher but a similar one is a Black magic ATEM mni

Thanks Rod, I have an Atem mini Pro Iso, which I use for my live streams, but having it set up for a simple task like screen recording is overkill. For the times I need the screen recorded on the Schaublin I 
just use simplescreenrecorder and drop the files onto a thumb drive. 

Why it is so hard to install a simple program on Linux, which I have installed easily on two other flavours of linux.?

Choose a mirror near you, download, double click.
packages.debian.org/sid/amd64/simplescreenrecorder/download
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If it complains:
sudo apt install gdebi
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P.S.
did you do a
sudo apt update
before trying to install? Sorry for asking, but way to often this gets left out.

What exact version of Debian are you using ?
When you do an apt update it will list the repos and the version, wheezy or bullseye or whatever.
If it's bullseye or up it's available in the repos, if not you may have to install from source, which brings along a whole manner of other issues. And to make whatters worse there does appear to be some issues with wheezy.
From my understanding Sid is the "unstable"branch, so I doubt that anything from Sid would help.