another interesting video problem VLC won't play dvd- resolved.

[Gary Kirkpatrick]

I did the process again and this resolved the problem.  Thanks.  Now if I
can get the video to play on my external monitor.

G

On Sat, May 31, 2008 at 12:59 PM, Mario Vukelic <mario.vukelic at dantian.org>
wrote:

> 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?
>
>
>
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