help with wn 32 codecs

[John L Fjellstad]

"Noah Dain" <noahdain at gmail.com> writes:

>> Says who?  If you install a deb package, it should never go into
>> /usr/local
>
> says the mplayer readme file.  Also, says my experience from some time
> ago when codecs in/usr/lib/win32 stopped working, so I did some
> reading.  Also, I'm not aware of any .deb containing the w32codecs.  I
> just grab them from mplayer's site.

You missed the part about the deb file.  As to the w32codecs debian package:

john at minerva:~$ apt-cache policy w32codecs
w32codecs:
  Installed: 20050412-0unofficialubuntu3
  Candidate: 20050412-0unofficialubuntu3
  Version table:
 *** 20050412-0unofficialubuntu3 0
        500 ftp://cipherfunk.org dapper/main Packages
        100 /var/lib/dpkg/status

>From the Debian Policy Manual

9.1.2 Site-specific programs

As mandated by the FHS, packages must not place any files in /usr/local,
either by putting them in the file system archive to be unpacked by dpkg
or by manipulating them in their maintainer scripts.

If you are installing a deb package, it should never install anything
into /usr/local

-- 
John L. Fjellstad
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