[nflug] Ubuntu question

[vlok stone]

Josh, It doesn't come as just mplayer. 
$apt-cache search mplayer
mplayer-386 - The Ultimate Movie Player For Linux
mplayer-586 - The Ultimate Movie Player For Linux
mplayer-686 - transitional dummy package which can be
safely removed
mplayer-custom - The Ultimate Movie Player For Linux
mplayer-doc - Documentation for mplayer
mplayer-fonts - Fonts for mplayer
mplayer-k6 - The Ultimate Movie Player For Linux
mplayer-k7 - transitional dummy package which can be
safely removed
mplayer-nogui - The Ultimate Movie Player For Linux
xmms-xmmplayer - XMMS plugin that uses MPlayer to play
video files
w32codecs - win32 dlls codecs for MPlayer (installer)

like a previous post said it's good to enable
multiverse repositories for the non-free stuff. Don't
forget the w32codecs and libdvd stuff. 

--- Josh Johnson <joshj at linuxmail.org> wrote:

> 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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