What happened to Mplayer, Win32 codecs and Acroread?

[Blob]

Newbie has followed the ubuntuguide.org to the letter and I can't get the above noted programs installed using apt-get. I'm able to download and install almost everything else that I want.

Apparently these packages are no longer there. Have these programs been discontinued?

thanks

[Professor X]

Did you enable the extra repositories? Did you remember to type

sudo apt-get update

?

[Blob]

Yes, I did uncomment all the reposotories as per the guide, perhaps, I did not do it right? I will try to do it again.

Am I right in assuming that Mplayer is a program and not just a reference to any multiplayer?

Thanks.

[Blob]

This is what I typed in and this is what I got. I checked the repositories and they are uncommented as per the guide instructions:




bob@ubuntu:~$ sudo apt-get -t hoary install mplayer-386
Reading package lists... Done
Building dependency tree... Done
E: Couldn't find package mplayer-386

[Leif]

It's not just uncommenting, you also need to add the marillat repositories. Have you done this ?

[mendicant]

Use aptitude in preference to apt-get.
Make sure you have multiverse in /etc/apt/sources.list:

% grep multiverse /etc/apt/sources.list | grep -v " *#"

Make sure you've updated your list of packages:

% sudo aptitude update
% aptitude search mplayer ## results in something like the following:
v   mplayer                         -
v   mplayer-386                     -
i   mplayer-586                     - The Ultimate Movie Player For Linux
v   mplayer-686                     -
v   mplayer-custom                  -
v   mplayer-doc                     -
i A mplayer-fonts                   - Fonts for mplayer
v   mplayer-k6                      -
v   mplayer-k7                      -
v   mplayer-nogui                   -

Now:

% sudo aptitude install mplayer-386

should work.

[mendicant]

Oh, and the grep should return you at least one line indicating that you've got multiverse in your sources.list.

[Blob]

Hi Mendicant, I inserted the line below in a terminal window and nothing happened:

grep multiverse /etc/apt/sources.list | grep -v " *#"

I then did sudo aptitude update and got this:

bob@ubuntu:~$ sudo aptitude update
Password:
Reading package lists... Done
Building dependency tree
Reading extended state information
Initializing package states... Done
Get:1 http://ca.archive.ubuntu.com hoary Release.gpg [189B]
Get:2 http://security.ubuntu.com hoary-security Release.gpg [189B]
Get:3 http://ca.archive.ubuntu.com hoary-updates Release.gpg [189B]
Get:4 http://security.ubuntu.com hoary-security Release [16.9kB]
Hit http://ca.archive.ubuntu.com hoary Release
Get:5 http://ca.archive.ubuntu.com hoary-updates Release [16.8kB]
Hit http://security.ubuntu.com hoary-security/main Packages
Hit http://ca.archive.ubuntu.com hoary/main Packages
Hit http://security.ubuntu.com hoary-security/restricted Packages
Hit http://security.ubuntu.com hoary-security/main Sources
Hit http://security.ubuntu.com hoary-security/restricted Sources
Hit http://ca.archive.ubuntu.com hoary/restricted Packages
Hit http://security.ubuntu.com hoary-security/universe Packages
Hit http://security.ubuntu.com hoary-security/universe Sources
Hit http://ca.archive.ubuntu.com hoary/main Sources
Hit http://ca.archive.ubuntu.com hoary/restricted Sources
Hit http://ca.archive.ubuntu.com hoary/universe Packages
Hit http://ca.archive.ubuntu.com hoary/universe Sources
Hit http://ca.archive.ubuntu.com hoary-updates/main Packages
Hit http://ca.archive.ubuntu.com hoary-updates/restricted Packages
Hit http://ca.archive.ubuntu.com hoary-updates/main Sources
Hit http://ca.archive.ubuntu.com hoary-updates/restricted Sources
Fetched 34.1kB in 3s (10.3kB/s)
Reading package lists... Done
Building dependency tree
Reading extended state information
Initializing package states... Done
bob@ubuntu:~$ aptitude search mplayer
E: /home/bob/.aptitude/config - Unable to open %s for writing (13 Permission denied)
bob@ubuntu:~$


Can you let me know what to type exactly the way they do it in the unbunguguide.org? I'm too new to linux, so nothing is obvious.
Thanks,

[Blob]

It's not just uncommenting, you also need to add the marillat repositories. Have you done this ?

How do you add the marillat repositories?

Thanks,

[Leif]

Please follow these instructions : http://ubuntuguide.org/#extrarepositories