Libdvdcss2 on Dapper

[Ian Rose]

Wafa Hakim wrote:
> Hi,
>
> So I finally upgraded from Breezy to Dapper flight 7 today. Mostly 
> hitch-free, except for 1 big problem -- how do I install libdvdcss2 
> (to watch dvd's with Xine) on Dapper? I remember it being a fairly 
> straightforward process on Breezy, but when I try it using apt-get, i 
> get the following error:
>
> Package libdvdcss2 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 libdvdcss2 has no installation candidate
>
>
> When I download the source & try to compile it, this is what I get:
>
> wafa at mindfield:~/libdvdcss-1.2.9$ sudo ./configure --prefix=/usr
> Password:
> checking build system type... i686-pc-linux-gnulibc1
> checking host system type... i686-pc-linux-gnulibc1
> checking target system type... i686-pc-linux-gnulibc1
> checking for a BSD-compatible install... /usr/bin/install -c
> checking whether build environment is sane... yes
> checking for gawk... no
> checking for mawk... mawk
> checking whether make sets $(MAKE)... no
> checking for gcc... gcc
> checking for C compiler default output file name... configure: error: 
> C compiler cannot create executables
> See `config.log' for more details.
>
>
> Config.log turns out to have no more details than what's in the 
> standard output anyway. I thought my lack of kernel header files might 
> be the problem, but installing those didn't help either -- identical 
> error message.
>
> I'm not very comfortably with dpkg so when I tried that the fact that 
> it didn't work is no surprise; I'm sure I was doing something wrong:
>
> wafa$ sudo dpkg -b /home/wafa/libdvdcss-1.2.9/ libdvdcss-1.2.9.deb
> dpkg-deb: parse error, in file 
> `/home/wafa/libdvdcss-1.2.9//DEBIAN/control' near line 7:
>  missing package name
>
> But I checked the control file, & it looks like the package name is 
> there.
>
>
> There doesn't seem to be a PLF Dapper repository yet. Any ideas?
>
> Thanks in advance,
> Wafa.
>
You can get libdvdcss2 by:

sudo apt-get install dvdread3
sudo /usr/share/doc/libdvdread3/examples/install-css.sh

(taken from the Restricted Formats section of wiki.ubuntu.com)

-- 
Ian