[nflug] Ubuntu question

[Josh Johnson]

I can't find mplayer.  What would you guys recomment for a dvd player?
Totem doesnt work.
----- Original Message -----
From: pirrone <pirrone at localnet.com>
To: nflug at nflug.org
Subject: Re: [nflug] Ubuntu question
Date: Tue, 10 Jan 2006 23:05:44 -0500

> 
> Josh Johnson wrote:
> > I just installed Ubuntu to check out what all the fuss is about. 
> > It's pretty nice, but how doesn the package management system 
> > worked? I thought that it had a system that figured dependencies. 
> > Like if I said "Install Mplayer" then it would install all of the 
> > the library dependencies for it and then install mplayer and add 
> > it to the menu. As of yet I haven't figured this out. I see it 
> > has apt-get. But "apt-get install mplayer" yields
> >
> > Reading package lists... Done
> > Building dependency tree... Done
> > E: Couldn't find package mplayer
> >
> > I can find the package on their website, but I'm not certain 
> > where to put it. And would I have to do that for every 
> > dependency? Googling hasn't been much help. And I figured that 
> > the graphic interface (Synaptic) could do it. But I seem to be 
> > graphically challenged with this. What is the secret?
> >
> > -Josh
> >
> >
> Josh,
> 
> The problem is the /etc/apt/sources.list file.  Uncomment the 
> reserved and multiverse or whatever they're called archives to 
> access the full 16,000+ packages indexed.  This config file serves 
> both apt and its graphical skin - synaptic.
> 
> Frank
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