installing codecs

[Henry Dubb]

I''d second Mint as ready to go out of the box. Another option is AptonCD in
which you create your own Ubuntu. Include the programs / codecs you want and
leave the rest out. Played with it and it looks promising. But mint would be
the easiest route.

On Fri, Apr 9, 2010 at 9:54 PM, NoOp <glgxg at sbcglobal.net> wrote:

> On 04/09/2010 07:14 PM, Gary Kirkpatrick wrote:
> > 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
> >
> ...
> > 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
> >
>
> To be honest, I've no idea. Never tried it & put it on the project list
> :-) And yes, I think you'd need to do each machine unless you set your
> machine up as an apt repository.
>
> In the interim, it may be possible to just download the necessary .debs
> and sneaker-net them to the machines. You most likely will want to review:
>
> https://help.ubuntu.com/community/RestrictedFormats
> https://help.ubuntu.com/community/RestrictedFormats/PlayingDVDs
> https://help.ubuntu.com/community/FreeFormats
> https://help.ubuntu.com/community/Medibuntu
>  http://packages.medibuntu.org/
>  http://packages.medibuntu.org/karmic/index.html
>
> Or, shudder... I hear that linuxmint has all of the codecs already
> included (never used it, so google). Other alternatives:
> https://wiki.ubuntu.com/DerivativeTeam/Derivatives
>
>
>
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