[nflug] Ubuntu question

[Josh Johnson]

----- Original Message -----
From: "vlok stone" <vlokstone at yahoo.com>
To: nflug at nflug.org
Subject: Re: [nflug] Ubuntu question
Date: Wed, 11 Jan 2006 05:22:32 -0800 (PST)

> 
> 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.

Yeah. That was my problem though. i couldn't even get a list. I finally went in to /etc/apt/contact.list and uncommented every line. After that a search for 'mplayer' would would bring up 'mozilla-mplayer' but that (of course) depended on some mplayer package (586,686,-custom,etc) which it couldn't find. A did a google search and came up with a site that gave me a couple of urls to add to contact.list that containted mplayer and its dependencies and it works now. And mplayer works beautifully!

I'm a little disapointed that this couldn't be done through the gui. Or more correctly, that I couldn't figure out how to do it through the GUI. Because I'm sure it can be done. See, I set this up on my buddy's laptop. I wanted to find a distro that he could upgrade and install packages by himself in the future. Editing the config files by hand isn't a problem for myself. But it would be a bit confusing for a first time user. So i'm guessing that there is some other way around this? I figured that with ubuntu I could search for a package to install and it would merrily hunt down and install dependencies. I'm not dissin ubuntu. I think I missed something along the way. Are some packages (like mplayer) not part of the 'stable' (or whatever ubuntu calls it) branch because it is a new distro and it hasn't been extensively tested?

> 
> --- 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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