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hoggme1ster

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January 29th, 2009 08:00

Dell Mini 9 Ubuntu 8.04 LTS

Hi

Iam unable to install the w32 codecs, i have added the mediaubuntu software source and added the key but when i try to install i get the following error;

Package w32codecs is not available, but is referred to by another package.
This may mean that the package is missing, has been obsoleted, or
is only available from another source
E: Package w32codecs has no installation candidate

I have also tried updating the software sources to include the multiuniverce packages but these return 404 errors.

Any ideas how to solve these issues...

James2423

28 Posts

February 4th, 2009 06:00

Try removing the repository you have added

Open a terminal:

sudo wget http://www.medibuntu.org/sources.list.d/hardy.list -O /etc/apt/sources.list.d/medibuntu.list

sudo apt-get update

sudo apt-get install medibuntu-keyring

sudo apt-get update

 

For i386 Users install Codecs using the following command

sudo apt-get install w32codecs ubuntu-restricted-extras libdvdcss2

For amd64 Users install Codecs using the following command

sudo apt-get install w64codecs ubuntu-restricted-extras libdvdcss2

 

James2423

28 Posts

February 5th, 2009 05:00

You can always try to get the package "manually"

For i386, the package is called w32codecs: 

wget -c http://packages.medibuntu.org/pool/non-free/w/w32codecs
/w32codecs_20071007-0medibuntu2_i386.deb

sudo dpkg -i w32codecs_20071007-0medibuntu2_i386.deb


For amd64, the package is called w64codecs:

wget -c http://packages.medibuntu.org/pool/non-free/w/w64codecs
/w64codecs_20071007-0medibuntu1_amd64.deb

sudo dpkg -i w64codecs_20071007-0medibuntu1_amd64.deb

David Prentice

9 Posts

February 10th, 2009 22:00

If you're using the stock lpia Dell version of Ubuntu, it comes with Fluendo's codec package. No need for the w32 codecs.

hoggme1ster

3 Posts

February 11th, 2009 06:00

If you're using the stock lpia Dell version of Ubuntu, it comes with Fluendo's codec package. No need for the w32 codecs.

 

 

Cheers for that, there was I trying to do things the hardway when it was simple all along

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