Installing mediainfo on Ubuntu

There's no single ready made package for mediainfo as far as I can see, so no apt-get install, but the required .deb packages are available and so can be installed using dpkg.

Pick the appropriate packages for your system from the mediainfo sourceforge download page, then install in the correct order using dpkg -i.

To install the CLI version on my fit-pc Ubuntu 8.10 server, I did

$ wget http://downloads.sourceforge.net/mediainfo/mediainfo_0.7.11-1_i386.Debian_5.0.deb
$ wget http://downloads.sourceforge.net/mediainfo/libmediainfo0_0.7.11-1_i386.Debian_5.0.deb
$ wget http://downloads.sourceforge.net/zenlib/libzen0_0.3.8-1_i386.Debian_5.0.deb
$ sudo dpkg -i libzen0_0.3.8-1_i386.Debian_5.0.deb
$ sudo dpkg -i libmediainfo0_0.7.11-1_i386.Debian_5.0.deb
$ sudo dpkg -i mediainfo_0.7.11-1_i386.Debian_5.0.deb

Then it's good to go.