Video codecs for 20.04 LTS?

[Colin Watson]

On Wed, Dec 08, 2021 at 03:35:41PM +0100, Ralf Mardorf via ubuntu-users wrote:
> On Wed, 8 Dec 2021 14:10:15 +0000, Colin Watson wrote:
> >This particular point about apt-get can easily be verified to be
> >untrue. I tested as far back as xenial:
[...]
> I suspected another mistake, in particular I suspected that I
> didn't remember correctly and "apt-get install ./local_package.deb"
> doesn't work at all. However, not that long ago dpkg -i + apt-get -f or
> alternatively gdebi needed to be used. Some day apt install replaced the
> dpkg -i + apt-get -f/gdebi approach.
> Much likely "apt-get install ./local_package.deb" to resolve
> dependencies by repos is relatively new to apt-get.

Support for passing a local .deb to "apt-get install" was added in
versions 1.1~exp1 and 1.1~exp2 of apt (that should be enough for you to
find it in the changelog), so in Ubuntu 16.04.

"apt" and "apt-get" are mostly the same code with just a slightly
different frontend.  As far as I can see, this facility was added to
both "apt install" and "apt-get install" at the same time.

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Colin Watson (he/him)                              [cjwatson at ubuntu.com]