Newbie trying to see VDC and DVD with Totem.

[Jon Dixon]

Hi Brian

These are metapackages which list a group of other packages, and that
is only really useful during an initial install.

That's why everyone is advising you not to worry.

When your system is installed, updating the package list and doing a
dist-upgrade is sufficient to keep your system in order.

Regards,

Jon

On Tue, 15 Feb 2005 19:20:25 +0700, Brian Durant
<globetrotterdk at gmail.com> wrote:
> Yeah, I have heard that as well, but it would be much better if I
> could get a dummy package. This is one area that Ubuntu could really
> improve. Either provide us with an Ubuntu version of these common
> programs that should be, but are not included or provide us with some
> dummies so that we can install these programs from universe without
> making later mistakes - like forgetting to reinstall ubuntu-desktop
> when upgrading.
> 
> Cheers,
> 
> Brian
> 
> On Tue, 15 Feb 2005 04:26:51 +0100, ulrich steffens
> <ulrich at barfuss-jerusalem.org> wrote:
> > as far as i remember its safe to remove ubuntu-desktop.
> > i had totem-xine in warty up and running and had no problems removing
> > ubuntu-desktop. BUT if youre going to upgrad to hoary one day, you
> > should install it again.
> >
> > --
> > - ulrich
> > ---------------------------------------------------------------
> > rule 3: It is OK to put all bad people in a giant meat grinder.
> >
> >
> > On Di, 2005-02-15 at 09:58 +0700, Brian Durant wrote:
> > >Synaptic wants to remove totem-gstreamer and ubuntu-desktop. Can't the
> > >two live side by side? If not, is there a totem-gstreamer dummy out
> > >there so that I can keep the ubuntu-desktop? I had to do this once
> > >before with OOo as I have Star Office 7 installed. Unfortunately, I
> > >can't remember the instructions for creating a dummy.
> > >
> > >Cheers,
> > >
> > >Brian
> > >
> > >On Tue, 15 Feb 2005 09:27:08 +1100, Lex Hider <Lex.Hider at gmail.com> wrote:
> > >> I can't comment on VCDs, but you should be able to watch DVDs if you use
> > >> totem-xine instead of totem-gstreamer. totem-gstreamer will play hardly
> > >> anything in comparison to totem-xine.
> > >>
> > >> totem-xine can be found in the universe repositories.
> > >> You may also need the libdvdcss2 package to get around the CSS copy
> > >> protection stuff on some CDs.
> > >>
> > >>
> > >> On Mon, 2005-02-14 at 16:27 +0700, Brian Durant wrote:
> > >> >Hi again,
> > >> >
> > >> >I am trying to get Totem to behave so that I can watch VCDs and DVDs.
> > >> >I have skimmed through the various HowTos, FAQs, etc. and I believe
> > >> >that I have all of the codecs downloaded properly from the alternative
> > >> >repositories. Totem just doesn't seem to be able to do anything. I
> > >> >have looked at the add proprietary plug-ins section of Totem prefs and
> > >> >don't find anything in there. Do I have to symlink or navigate to the
> > >> >win32 codecs, gstreamer et.al. or is there another way to do this? I
> > >> >know someone is going to post with the suggestion that I try Mplayer,
> > >> >but I don't have a virgin system, I don't want to upgrade to Hoary yet
> > >> >and after the debacle I have had with trying different CD burners to
> > >> >burn an audio CD and none of them as of yet being able to do anything,
> > >> >I would prefer to start slowly with Totem and try to get that to work
> > >> >before moving on to anything else.
> > >
> >
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> >
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