Howto Install “lame” mp3 ripper on Debian Linux using apt-get

Lame wont come with your Debian Distro because some GPL licencing issues, however it is possible to get it to install manually by compiling it or with a bit of fiddling to add lame with APT-GET since i dont feel comfortable compiling stuff I opted for the later method and here is how step by step. I am assuming you have root access and basic console knowledge. if you find problems with this Tutorial post a comment and i will do my best to help you.
First you need to add the source so apt-get knows where to look.
To do so: add in your: “/etc/apt/sources.list”
nano /etc/apt/sources.list
deb http://www.debian-multimedia.org testing main
Then you need to tell apt-get to reload the list:
apt-get update
This will return an error and a key that looks like this (don’t panic):
GPG error: ftp://www.debian-multimedia.org Somthing Release:
The following signatures couldn’t be verified because the public key is not available: NO_PUBKEY 07DC563D1F41B907
Just run from the console:
gpg --keyserver pgpkeys.mit.edu --recv-key 07DC563D1F41B907
gpg -a --export 07DC563D1F41B907 | apt-key add -
This will get rid of the NO_PUBKEY error; now you need to run again:
apt-get update
Then apt-get will be happily updated and you are ready to install your lame; run this:
apt-get install lame
apt-get install libmp3lame0 libmp3lame-dev
And voila now lame is installed in your system.
