tweaking a new install

[maxim wexler]

--- Daniel Robitaille <robitaille at gmail.com> wrote:

> On 5/21/06, maxim wexler <blissfix at yahoo.com> wrote:
> > > >
> > > If you want to listen to mp3, you'll be happier
> with
> > > something else.
> > > Rythmbox is a default app.
> >
> > Doesn't support mp3 without plugin, but...
> >
> > booyah at ubuntu:~$ sudo apt-get install
> > gstreamer0.8-plugins
> > Password:
> > Reading package lists... Done
> > Building dependency tree... Done
> > Package gstreamer0.8-plugins is not available, but
> is
> > referred to by another package.
> > This may mean that the package is missing, has
> been
> > obsoleted, or
> > is only available from another source
> > E: Package gstreamer0.8-plugins has no
> installation
> > candidate
> > booyah at ubuntu:~$
> >
> > Anybody else had to deal with this?
> 
> In Breezy you need to install gstreamer0.8-mad to
> get mp3 in Rythmbox:
> 
> 
> Check this wiki page for more details:
> https://wiki.ubuntu.com/RestrictedFormats

Tried two ways, both failed:

booyah at ubuntu:~$ sudo apt-get install gstreamer0.8-mad
Reading package lists... Done
Building dependency tree... Done
E: Couldn't find package gstreamer0.8-mad

booyah at ubuntu:~$ sudo aptitude install
gstreamer0.8-mad
Reading package lists... Done
Building dependency tree... Done
Reading extended state information
Initializing package states... Done
Couldn't find any package whose name or description
matched "gstreamer0.8-mad"
No packages will be installed, upgraded, or removed.
0 packages upgraded, 0 newly installed, 0 to remove
and 0 not upgraded.
Need to get 0B of archives. After unpacking 0B will be
used.
Writing extended state information... Done
Reading package lists... Done
Building dependency tree... Done
Reading extended state information
Initializing package states... Done


-Maxim


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