libdvdcss

Jim Smith jim at oz.net
Fri May 30 03:20:47 UTC 2008


Karl Larsen wrote:
>     Alas the effort to get this new Ubuntu to show movies has been for 
> not. I have a lot of good things downloaded like java but not the 
> important library libdvdcss .
>
>     When I tried to d/l libdvdcss I got:
>
> karl at karl-desktop:~$ sudo apt-get install libdvdcss
> [sudo] password for karl:
> Reading package lists... Done
> Building dependency tree      
> Reading state information... Done
> Package libdvdcss 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 libdvdcss has no installation candidate
> karl at karl-desktop:~$
>
> So what do I do now?
>
> Karl
>
>   
Its in the Medibuntu repository. Go to the medibuntu website and read
the instructions for adding them as a repository. Then sudo apt-get
install will work for you.

YMMV

Jim




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