help with wn 32 codecs

[Peter Garrett]

On Wed, 19 Jul 2006 21:00:39 -0400
"Noah Dain" <noahdain at gmail.com> wrote:

> On 7/19/06, John L Fjellstad <john-ubuntu at fjellstad.org> wrote:
> > "Noah Dain" <noahdain at gmail.com> writes:

[snip]

Noah, note John's output below:

>> 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
                       ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^     

 [snip]
> well, i have universe enabled, and have no w32codecs available.
> 
> $ apt-cache search w32
> mingw32 - Minimalist GNU win32 (cross) compiler
> mingw32-binutils - Minimalist GNU win32 (cross) binutils
> mingw32-runtime - Minimalist GNU win32 (cross) runtime
> 

If you had actually *read* the post , you would have seen that w32codecs is
*not* in universe, and that, in John's case, it came from

ftp://cipherfunk.org dapper/main Packages

There are several unofficial repos that supply w32codecs.

Peter