Playing Divx and MP3

[Brian McKee]

On Fri, Jun 13, 2008 at 5:25 AM, ZEBWALYA DARIOUS <darbwa at msn.com> wrote:
> At the school there is no internet connectivity and I wish to play MP3 and
> DIVX file formats.I thought of using apt-on-cd package to create repository
> of packages but no any other person has ubuntu OS in my locality but most of
> them use Windows.

OK - this page tells you what you need -
https://help.ubuntu.com/community/RestrictedFormats
The package is ubuntu-restricted-extras, which is actually a
'metapackage' - just a pointer to a bunch of other packages.
This page - http://packages.ubuntu.com/gutsy/ubuntu-restricted-extras
shows you what packages that metapackage points to.
Unfortunately for you, each of those packages has 'dependencies' that
it requires before it will work.  That's the magic of apt - it sorts
out what all you need for you.   You could generate a list of packages
that you need by hand, but it would be pretty labour intensive and
error-prone I think.  Then download those by hand from the
repositories.

Hmmm - slickest way to do this would be take a stock gutsy box and run
aptitude install ubuntu-restricted-extras on it, then just copy the
contents of /var/cache/apt onto a cd.  Looks like apt-on-cd basically
does that (no updates to that project since 2006 - wonder if it's
dead)

Anybody on this list got a machine they can fire up a virgin Gutsy
virtual machine on and install ubuntu-restricted-extras ?
I've got webspace where you could upload the results to and this
gentleman could retrieve it from there....

Or other suggestions?   I've got nothing but hardy and etch boxes
handy right now.  It would be at least a couple of days before I could
do it.

Brian