[nflug] Ubuntu question (Video)

JJ Neff jjneff at yahoo.com
Wed Jan 11 08:24:35 EST 2006


I use Xine now that VLC is no longer in favor.  Mplayer plugin is great for
online video clips intended for windows media players but Xine is my DVD viewer
of choice.

(Debian Testing)
--- 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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