mplayer

[Jaime Davila]

Thanks a lot! That did the trick.

Peter Garrett wrote:
> On Tue, 07 Mar 2006 22:52:20 -0500
> Jaime Davila <jdavila at hampshire.edu> wrote:
> 
> 
>>Hi all,
>>
>>I just moved from fedora to Ubuntu into a new IBM thinkpad. I'm trying 
>>to get applications installed. I can't seem to find mplayer in any 
>>repository. I've read that apt-getting mplayer-386 should get it done, 
>>but I get  Couldn't find package mplayer-386. Similar thing with mplayer 
>>and mplayer-suite, and mozilla-mplayer. Any ideas? here's my sources.list:
> 
> 
> [snipped sources.list]
> 
> Add the word multiverse to your universe lines  you have only backports
> multiverse as far as I can see from a quick look art your sources - for
> example add on the end
> 
> deb http://us.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu breezy universe multiverse
> deb-src http://us.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu breezy universe multiverse
> deb http://ca.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu breezy universe multiverse
> deb-src http://ca.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu breezy universe multiverse
> 
> (By the way, us.archive and ca.archive*  are the same machine (IP
> 216.165.129.138  according to the "host" command) , so you don't gain
> anything by using both. You can safely delete one or the other,
> orsubstitute a plain "archive.ubuntu.com" for one - or any other mirror
> really )
> 
> Then run 
> 
> sudo apt-get update
> apt-cache search mplayer
> 
> Install the appropriate one for your architecture. The command
> 
> uname -m
> 
> will tell you your architecture, if in doubt.
> 
> Peter
> 
> 
> 


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