installing codecs

[Gary Kirkpatrick]

On Fri, Apr 9, 2010 at 6:58 PM, NoOp <glgxg at sbcglobal.net> wrote:
> On 04/09/2010 01:35 PM, Gary Kirkpatrick wrote:
>> I am doing some volunteer work at a school in Panama.  There are 15
>> donated desktop computers.  12 have XP and the rest Vista.  I will
>> install Edubuntu to dual boot.  There is no internet access for these
>> computers.  I need to install codecs so that we can play videos and
>> music.  I will be installing using a dvd I made from a download.  Can
>> I somehow add the codecs to the DVD?  Or how else should I do this?
>>
>>
>> thanks
>>
>> gary
>>
>
> This might be of interest; Ritesh posted it last month:
> http://permalink.gmane.org/gmane.linux.ubuntu.user/212128
> [ANNOUNCE] apt-offline 0.9.7 released
>
> Might be worth looking into. Added info is here:
> <http://www.debian-administration.org/article/Offline_Package_Management_for_APT>
>
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Thanks, looks interesting.  Two questions 1) I want to just enable
codecs for video and music so an entire update may not be necessary.

2) would I have to do each of 16 machines separately?  Don't they all
need the same codecs?

gary