Comprehensive Multimedia & Video Howto

[Mor_Rioghain]

Hello there, thank you so much for this How-To guide, it's helped a lot.

I'm a bit new to Ubuntu and I'm working hard to learn all that's necessary to become a better computer user in general. I've had some issues with flash, though, and whilst working in the terminal I had some errors.

In part 1/5 I received this:
"Package faac is not available, but is referred to by another package.
This may mean that the package is missing, has been obsoleted, or
is only available from another source
E: Package faac has no installation candidate"

I've tried uninstalling and then reinstalling, but it doesn't seem to do anything.

In part 2/5 I received:
"E: Couldn't find package mozilla-mplayer"
And:
"E: Couldn't find package gnome-mplayer"

It's starting to get frustrating, but I'm hanging in there.

Whilst visiting the Apple trailers, I could play everything there just fine, but anything involving flash says that I need to install flash on my computer, though I've done so many times. (In many different ways) Java seems to work as I visited a site to test your Java.

If you need more information, please let me know. I'm not sure what sorts of things are necessary to help fix this.

[daevyd]

I'm having a heck of a time installing the sun-java6-plugin. I'm getting this error message when I tried to follow this threads instructions:

Package gnash is not installed, so not removed
Package gnash-common is not installed, so not removed
Package icedtea-gcjwebplugin is not installed, so not removed
Package libflash-mozplugin is not installed, so not removed
Package libflashsupport is not installed, so not removed
Package mozilla-plugin-gnash is not installed, so not removed
Package openjdk-6-jre is not installed, so not removed
Package openjdk-6-jre-headless is not installed, so not removed
Package openjdk-6-jre-lib is not installed, so not removed
Package swfdec-mozilla is not installed, so not removed
You might want to run `apt-get -f install' to correct these:
The following packages have unmet dependencies:
sun-java6-jre: Depends: sun-java6-bin (= 6-06-0ubuntu1) but it is not going to be installed or
ia32-sun-java6-bin (= 6-06-0ubuntu1) but it is not installable
sun-java6-plugin: Depends: sun-java6-bin (= 6-06-0ubuntu1) but it is not going to be installed
E: Unmet dependencies. Try 'apt-get -f install' with no packages (or specify a solution).


I'm at a loss with this.

[daevyd]

Okay, I got it fixed but now my sound is weird and the video is choppy. Hmm...

[daevyd]

I'm sorry, I forgot to tell how I fixed my first issue about the sun java plug-in. I had both Terminal and Synaptic Package Manager open. When I closed them and reopened Package Manager the update took magnificently. I suppose having them both open at the same time just doesn't work. Duh on my part, huh?

[ubuntu-freak]

I'm having a heck of a time installing the sun-java6-plugin. I'm getting this error message when I tried to follow this threads instructions:

Package gnash is not installed, so not removed
Package gnash-common is not installed, so not removed
Package icedtea-gcjwebplugin is not installed, so not removed
Package libflash-mozplugin is not installed, so not removed
Package libflashsupport is not installed, so not removed
Package mozilla-plugin-gnash is not installed, so not removed
Package openjdk-6-jre is not installed, so not removed
Package openjdk-6-jre-headless is not installed, so not removed
Package openjdk-6-jre-lib is not installed, so not removed
Package swfdec-mozilla is not installed, so not removed
You might want to run `apt-get -f install' to correct these:
The following packages have unmet dependencies:
sun-java6-jre: Depends: sun-java6-bin (= 6-06-0ubuntu1) but it is not going to be installed or
ia32-sun-java6-bin (= 6-06-0ubuntu1) but it is not installable
sun-java6-plugin: Depends: sun-java6-bin (= 6-06-0ubuntu1) but it is not going to be installed
E: Unmet dependencies. Try 'apt-get -f install' with no packages (or specify a solution).


I'm at a loss with this.

Did you try "sudo apt-get -f install" as it suggested? There is also a section in part 1 which has useful commands for getting passed errors.

[shortylonglegs]

It appears the medibuntu package has moved? I even went to medibuntu.org in Firefox and get a 404. Did it move or cease to exist; or did I miss something?

[daevyd]

Did you try "sudo apt-get -f install" as it suggested? There is also a section in part 1 which has useful commands for getting passed errors.

I did try "sudo apt-get -f install" and the error message you see is what I got... until I closed Terminal and closed then reopened the Synaptic Package Manager. After that all went well. Now I have choppy video and Max Headroom-like sound.

[ubuntu-freak]

It appears the medibuntu package has moved? I even went to medibuntu.org in Firefox and get a 404. Did it move or cease to exist; or did I miss something?

Not sure what's going on there. Which package? Maybe you could try changing your sources from http to ftp, instructions for that are in part 1 my how-to.

[shortylonglegs]

Its working now. I have no idea what I was doing wrong.

[ubuntu-freak]

Its working now. I have no idea what I was doing wrong.

Must have been an issue with the server, not anything you did or didn't do.