another interesting video problem VLC won't play dvd

[Mario Vukelic]

On Sat, 2008-05-31 at 12:43 -0400, Gary Kirkpatrick wrote:
> To finish, I typed 
> sudo apt-get install build-essential
> 
> 
> then it said  E Couldn't find package build. 

Are you _sure_ that you typed "apt-get install build-essential"
correctly? The error message, "Couldn't find package build", would
suggest that you might have made a typo in your command line.

In your first reply you wrote that "some installations were
performed",. You don't happen to know the output of these, do you.
Because it would be really helpful to know it.

For me, this is what happens:

mario at chronic: ~ $ sudo apt-get install build-essential
[sudo] password for mario: 
Reading package lists... Done
Building dependency tree       
Reading state information... Done
The following extra packages will be installed:
  g++ g++-4.2 libstdc++6-4.2-dev
Suggested packages:
  g++-multilib g++-4.2-multilib gcc-4.2-doc libstdc++6-4.2-dbg libstdc
++6-4.2-doc
The following NEW packages will be installed:
  build-essential g++ g++-4.2 libstdc++6-4.2-dev
0 upgraded, 4 newly installed, 0 to remove and 0 not upgraded.
Need to get 3979kB of archives.
After this operation, 15.0MB of additional disk space will be used.
Do you want to continue [Y/n]?


When I confirm with [Enter], the installation finishes without error:


Get:1 http://de.archive.ubuntu.com hardy/main libstdc++6-4.2-dev
4.2.3-2ubuntu7 [1187kB]
Get:2 http://de.archive.ubuntu.com hardy/main g++-4.2 4.2.3-2ubuntu7
[2784kB]
Get:3 http://de.archive.ubuntu.com hardy-updates/main g++
4:4.2.3-1ubuntu5
[1448B]                                                                          
Get:4 http://de.archive.ubuntu.com hardy/main build-essential
11.3ubuntu1
[7066B]                                                                           
Fetched 3979kB in 6s
(652kB/s)                                                                                                                              
Selecting previously deselected package libstdc++6-4.2-dev.
(Reading database ... 187304 files and directories currently installed.)
Unpacking libstdc++6-4.2-dev (from .../libstdc
++6-4.2-dev_4.2.3-2ubuntu7_i386.deb) ...
Selecting previously deselected package g++-4.2.
Unpacking g++-4.2 (from .../g++-4.2_4.2.3-2ubuntu7_i386.deb) ...
Selecting previously deselected package g++.
Unpacking g++ (from .../g++_4%3a4.2.3-1ubuntu5_i386.deb) ...
Selecting previously deselected package build-essential.
Unpacking build-essential
(from .../build-essential_11.3ubuntu1_i386.deb) ...
Setting up libstdc++6-4.2-dev (4.2.3-2ubuntu7) ...
Setting up g++-4.2 (4.2.3-2ubuntu7) ...
Setting up g++ (4:4.2.3-1ubuntu5) ...
Setting up build-essential (11.3ubuntu1) ...
mario at chronic: ~ $


> Everything else seemed normal.  I have not tried to run a dvd yet.

Did you attempt the second part of the instructions? That is,
"sudo /usr/share/doc/libdvdread3/install-css.sh"?

If so, what where the results?