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. <div class="gmail_quote">On Fri, Apr 9, 2010 at 9:54 PM, NoOp <<a href="mailto:glgxg@sbcglobal.net">glgxg@sbcglobal.net</a>> wrote: <blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex;"> <div class="im">On 04/09/2010 07:14 PM, Gary Kirkpatrick wrote: > On Fri, Apr 9, 2010 at 6:58 PM, NoOp <<a href="mailto:glgxg@sbcglobal.net">glgxg@sbcglobal.net</a>> 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: >> <a href="http://permalink.gmane.org/gmane.linux.ubuntu.user/212128" target="_blank">http://permalink.gmane.org/gmane.linux.ubuntu.user/212128</a> >> [ANNOUNCE] apt-offline 0.9.7 released >> >> Might be worth looking into. Added info is here: >> <<a href="http://www.debian-administration.org/article/Offline_Package_Management_for_APT" target="_blank">http://www.debian-administration.org/article/Offline_Package_Management_for_APT</a>> </div>... <div class="im">> 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 > </div>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: <a href="https://help.ubuntu.com/community/RestrictedFormats" target="_blank">https://help.ubuntu.com/community/RestrictedFormats</a> <a href="https://help.ubuntu.com/community/RestrictedFormats/PlayingDVDs" target="_blank">https://help.ubuntu.com/community/RestrictedFormats/PlayingDVDs</a> <a href="https://help.ubuntu.com/community/FreeFormats" target="_blank">https://help.ubuntu.com/community/FreeFormats</a> <a href="https://help.ubuntu.com/community/Medibuntu" target="_blank">https://help.ubuntu.com/community/Medibuntu</a> <a href="http://packages.medibuntu.org/" target="_blank">http://packages.medibuntu.org/</a> <a href="http://packages.medibuntu.org/karmic/index.html" target="_blank">http://packages.medibuntu.org/karmic/index.html</a> Or, shudder... I hear that linuxmint has all of the codecs already included (never used it, so google). Other alternatives: <a href="https://wiki.ubuntu.com/DerivativeTeam/Derivatives" target="_blank">https://wiki.ubuntu.com/DerivativeTeam/Derivatives</a> -- <div><div></div><div class="h5">ubuntu-users mailing list <a href="mailto:ubuntu-users@lists.ubuntu.com">ubuntu-users@lists.ubuntu.com</a> Modify settings or unsubscribe at: <a href="https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-users" target="_blank">https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-users</a> </div></div></blockquote></div>