Running EasyUbuntu on Edbuntu

Gavin McCullagh gmccullagh at gmail.com
Wed Sep 13 12:50:16 BST 2006


On Wed, 13 Sep 2006, andrew bayliss wrote:

> I have just installed Edbuntu on my daughters standalone PC, with the aim 
> that she would be able to use the Educational software provided.  She would 
> also like to play music and music videos on it as well.    As the necessary 
> codecs are not supplied by default, I have tried to install the programme 
> EasyUbuntu.

I wouldn't recommend this.  If she needs extra codecs, then the first thing
to try is to add the Ubuntu dapper multiverse repository and install the
packages gstreamer0.10-plugins-bad, gstreamer0.10-plugins-ugly-multiverse
and w32codecs.  This should allow totem and mplayer to play most things.

Gavin




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