how to get libdvdcss and w32codecs through apt

[Daniel Robitaille]

On 11/17/06, Evan Leibovitch <evan at telly.org> wrote:
> Andrew Hunter wrote:
> >>>> Then again, I was under the impression that packages from even the
> >>>> universe and multiverse sections of the "official" repos were also
> >>>> unsupported.
> >>>>
> >>> Only unsupported for commercial support from Canonical.
> >>>
> >> Sorry, I can't parse this. Please explain.
> >>
> >
> > Canonical, the company behind Ubuntu, aims to make money through selling
> > support subscriptions. They will only _fully_ support packages in the Main
> > and Restricted repos. As Jamion said, they are not totally unsupported, but
> > only by the maintainers and the community at large.
> >
> Does there exist, somewhere, a chart that details the characteristics of
> the various names of repo "types":
> - which are supported by Canonical?
> - which are non-free?
> - which are packaged by the community?
> - what draws the line between what is merely non-free, and that which is
> unavailable at Ubunbtu servers?
>
> This information appears to exist, but it's scattered and inconsistent
> and sometimes hidden from view.

This official page is probably  a good starting point to answer some
of these questions:
http://www.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/components


-- 
Daniel Robitaille