Knowledge Base

If you want to run a program with a special restriction, such as without network access, you can do that with the unshare(1) utility.

unshare -r -n makemkv

I had noticed that makemkv makes some unwanted network traffic, and I was too lazy to insert my network proxy from the past. So a quick Internet search later, and I learned about unshare.

Unshare -n usually needs -r so the application will run. Read the man page for details.