Playing a DVD

[Peter Garrett]

On Thu, 29 Jun 2006 11:30:30 -0500
"Cybe R. Wizard" <cybe_r_wizard at earthlink.net> wrote:

> In the Great Book it has Been Written that on Thu, 29 Jun 2006 15:41:52
> +0100 OldZack <ulist at gs1.ubuntuforums.org> didst appear within my
> Magick Viewing Screen and, being somewhat pleasantly supplicatory, did
> polemicize thusly:
> 
> > 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?
> 
> Not drastic but fundamental.  You've failed to tell apt-get what to do;
> apt-get install xine
> You can't let apt-get decide what to do all on its own.  It can't make
> up its mind.

*cough*

$ apt-cache show xine
$

$sudo apt-get install xine
[snip]
$ E: Package xine has no installation candidate

The package is called * xine-ui *
apt-cache search xine is instructive....

Peter