Achieved Handbrake on Ubuntu 12.04 Precise Pangolin

I upgraded to Ubuntu's newest version 12.04 Precise Pangolin earlier this week and ran into a problem with Handbrake working.  The website offers a ppa repository that unfortunately does not have an updated binary package or repository for the new version of Ubuntu.

Being from old school Debian :) I knew that there was some ~easy way to install Handbrake through the deb-src of the older version of the source repository.  Add this to your /etc/apt/source.list or /etc/apt/source.list.d/stebbins-handbrake-releases-precise.list

deb-src http://ppa.launchpad.net/stebbins/handbrake-releases/ubuntu oneiric main

 Then run 'sudo apt-get update' or 'sudo aptitude update' to update the local software database.

Follow these steps that I got from Debian's Manual:

Now, first get the source package:

     apt-get source foo

and change to the source tree:

     cd foo-*

Then install needed build-dependencies (if any):

     sudo apt-get build-dep foo

Then create a dedicated version of your own build (so that you won't get confused later when Debian itself releases a new version)

     dch -l local 'Blah blah blah'

And finally build your package

     debuild -us -uc

If everything worked out fine, you should now be able to install your package by running

     sudo dpkg -i ../*.deb