Please see this article for hardy repositories and procedure, thanks :)
The non-free codecs distributed by Medibuntu now come to a single metapackage: non-free-codecs. The proper package matching the architecture will be installed (please see the Launchpad bug report below).
Just add Medibuntu repository to your sources.list:
# Medibuntu. deb http://packages.medibuntu.org/ gutsy free non-free
Add the key to your keyring, reload the sources.list file and install the package:
wget -q http://packages.medibuntu.org/medibuntu-key.gpg -O- | sudo apt-key add - && sudo apt-get update
sudo apt-get install non-free-codecs
Note1: I use aptitude. Please either use apt-get or aptitude, but do not mix the two. I’m giving here the code recommended in the Ubuntu doc, aptitude users will find their way around.
Note2: Once I install a package of interest from a third party repository, I comment the repository line in the sources.list file, and do not perform regular updates/upgrades with it.
~ $ sudo aptitude show non-free-codecs Package: non-free-codecs New: yes State: installed Automatically installed: yes Version: 1.1 Priority: extra Section: non-free/metapackages Maintainer: Medibuntu Packaging Team <admin@lists.medibuntu.org> Uncompressed Size: 32.8k Depends: w32codecs Description: Non-free codecs This package depends on the binaries codecs package matching your architecture (w32codecs for i386, w64codecs for amd64 and ppc-codecs for powerpc systems). It can be safely removed.
I suppose the Medibuntu doc page will be updated when gutsy is out ;)
Reference
LP bug
Edit: adding a link to mr_pouit’s blog post
b-initials 
http://ubuntu-tutorials.com/2007/08/17/ubuntu-restricted-extras-all-that-extra-stuff-all-in-one-place/
Doesn’t the included “ubuntu-restricted-extras” package take care of most of these already?
Thanks,
Tristan
Hello Tristan,
Not the w(xx)- or ppc-codecs, as far as I know :)
libdvdcss comes in a different package too (also available via medibuntu).
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There’s a small error in the installation line above.
You’ve said “install non-free codecs” instead of “install non-free-codecs”.
Ooops.. Yes, thanks very much, It’s fixed.
very nice…
thank you and peek up with the good job.
and one more error:
wget -q http://packages.medibuntu.org/medibuntu-key.gpg -O- | sudo apt-key add – && sudo apt-get update
should be
wget -q http://packages.medibuntu.org/medibuntu-key.gpg -O- | sudo apt-key add – && sudo apt-get update
Not sure I see what you mean..
sorry :”> … & -> &
Okay, I see what you mean. It had to do with the [sourcecode] tag in wordpress. I’ll look into this further, some wysiwyg editor interpret the “&”. Many thanks!
http://en.forums.wordpress.com/topic.php?id=15241
So here is the reason..
amperstand is just one of the elements not correctly displayed with the [sourcecode] tags. So I went back to plain code tags for this line for now.
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Hi,
After doing the sudo install stuff I get the following error:
The following packages have unmet dependencies:
non-free-codecs: Depends: w32codecs but it is not going to be installed
E: Broken packages
I am following this HOWTO in the hopes of getting w32codecs libdvdcss installed so I can install Mplayer. I have gutsy.
Please help
Zara, btw cute bee
Hello Zara, you need to enable the universe/multiverse repositories too:
https://help.ubuntu.com/community/Repositories/Ubuntu
ty..all working now.
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