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nosmadar
March 1st, 2014, 05:40 PM
https://help.ubuntu.com/community/Medibuntu

This might be easier than I think, but I don't want hose my system.
I've been unable to get a complete package update list for about 150 days now.
The problem is that I installed a number of multi-media packages from the 'medibuntu' repository,

http://packages.medibuntu.org/precise free non-free
which can no longer be located.
Because apparantly it's been shut down (see link at top of this post).

How can I update my software sources and installed packages to reflect the new location of the repository and get a complete package list.

nosmadar
March 1st, 2014, 05:56 PM
Sorry for the Duplicate! Didn't realize that editing the Title to fix 'to" to be "do" would create an entirely new post.
Hopefully a Moderator can get rid of this one please?

Frogs Hair
March 1st, 2014, 06:12 PM
In order to remove the source open the update manger and proceed to settings other software and remove all instances of medibuntu. many of the codecs are obsolete or now included with the ubuntu-restricted-extras package which is updated via the update manager.

oldfred
March 1st, 2014, 07:18 PM
Some more links:

Media howto:
http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=2179777
Older Ubuntu versions may not have new install-css.sh
https://help.ubuntu.com/community/RestrictedFormats/
(make sure to install/upgrade the libdvdread4 package first)
sudo apt-get install libdvdread4
new libdvdread 4 is already in 13.10
The new libdvdread4 has an updated install-css.sh that will install libdvdcss2 from a videolan repo
https://launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/libdvdread
Medibuntu discontinued April 2013
https://launchpad.net/medibuntu/+announcement/11219
http://gauvain.pocentek.net/node/61

monkeybrain20122
March 2nd, 2014, 02:49 AM
After installing ubuntu-restricted-extras the only additional thing that you would need is libdvdcss2 for playing dvds. Run in the terminal


sudo apt-get install libdvdread4
sudo /usr/share/doc/libdvdread4/install-css.sh

nosmadar
March 2nd, 2014, 03:26 AM
Thanks everyone!