Playing a DVD

[Jaime Davila]

yonas abraham wrote:
> On 6/29/06, OldZack <ulist at gs1.ubuntuforums.org> wrote:
>>
>> I can't even load xine:
>>
>>
>>
>> garth at garth-desktop:~$ sudo apt-get xine
>>
>> E: Invalid operation xine
>>
>>
>>
>> Admittedly I'm new to Ubuntu so maybe I'm making some drastic
>> fundamental mistake? When I try to load a DVD in Totem I'm told I need
>> to load plugins but when I go to preferences as indicated in the help
>> files that option isn't there!
>>
>>
>>
>> Any help very welcome.
>>
>>
>>
>> Zack
>>
>>
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>> OldZack
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> 
> 
> to install xine for the fisrt time do sudo apt-get install xine
> 
> 

That is, you missed the 'install' part between 'apt-get' and 'xine'.

Welcome to Ubuntu. This will become second nature in a little while.


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