Comments on: Install Mplayer and Multimedia Codecs (libdvdcss2,w32codecs) in Ubuntu 7.10 (Gutsy Gibbon)

By: Domain

Domain — Fri, 11 Jun 2010 12:59:38 +0000

I’m using Mplayer before on my ubunto 7.10, but now I shifted to VLC player. This is way better I think than the Mplayer (that is based on my experience.:) )

By: KillmySelf

KillmySelf — Fri, 07 Nov 2008 00:18:16 +0000

So sorry to tell you this, but all these are scrap, It didn’t help most newbies of linux out there, and one of that newbies is me. I want to install all this application, but I didn’t have any network connection here at my home. So, all I can do is by downloading the sources packages one by one, but I didn’t have deep knowledge about this. Can you help on these please?
I want to install all the codecs such as win32 and libdvdXXX like that, since I have a lot of .avi movie files and Divx movie too.
I’m using ubuntu 8.04 and running on intel core duo 2.0

By: akash

akash — Thu, 02 Oct 2008 15:33:51 +0000

i am using totem player
when i am playing a sound file no sound is cuming but its running..
plz help me i am a new user to ubuntu 8.04

By: ginger

ginger — Sat, 21 Jun 2008 20:05:42 +0000

I get the following error when trying to install the codecs. Please help me out.
$ sudo apt-get install w32codecs libdvdcss2
Reading package lists… Done
Building dependency tree
Reading state information… Done
Package w32codecs 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 w32codecs has no installation candidate

By: coolfusion

coolfusion — Tue, 20 May 2008 03:34:59 +0000

thanks man its working !

By: thatgeekguy

thatgeekguy — Sun, 04 May 2008 11:10:45 +0000

wow!!

it works perfectly fine and plays real media files flawlessly
no need for real player

By: Rajiv

Rajiv — Thu, 28 Feb 2008 04:59:07 +0000

I have the same issue as Sam. I did a
sudo apt-get -f install but that didn’t help either. I get:

Reading package lists… Done
Building dependency tree
Reading state information… Done
0 upgraded, 0 newly installed, 0 to remove and 0 not upgraded.

By: Culex

Culex — Wed, 27 Feb 2008 17:03:35 +0000

He meant without mplayer at the end.

Running the command:

sudo apt-get -f install

Will run through the packages and check for any breakage, hopefully prompting you to fix it on the way.

By: stevec

stevec — Tue, 26 Feb 2008 12:34:16 +0000

Sorry my admin mate, I tried that command (I assume you meant to add “mplayer” on the end), and get exactly the same errors??
any thoughts?

By: admin

admin — Sat, 09 Feb 2008 22:31:14 +0000

@sam

try to run the following command this should fix the errors

sudo apt-get -f install

By: Sam

Sam — Sat, 09 Feb 2008 18:48:59 +0000

Somehow I got the following error with sudo apt-get install mplayer

The following packages have unmet dependencies:
mplayer: Depends: libartsc0 (>= 1.5.0-1) but it is not installable
Depends: libaudio2 but it is not installable
Depends: libmad0 (>= 0.15.1b) but it is not installable
Depends: libmpcdec3 but it is not installable
Depends: libungif4g (>= 4.1.4) but it is not installable
Depends: libxvmc1 but it is not installable
E: Broken packages

By: knuwe1

knuwe1 — Fri, 25 Jan 2008 07:40:59 +0000

louisburger - please try “sudo su” + userpassword. That should grant you root permissions.

By: tuxman

tuxman — Thu, 17 Jan 2008 15:23:13 +0000

louisburger- make sure you don’t have package manager running when you do a dpkg or apt-get. package managers lock the file mentioned

By: louisburger

louisburger — Thu, 10 Jan 2008 17:04:31 +0000

Hi Folks. Have used this info to try to install the codecs . All goes well until I get to

Install Codecs using the following command
sudo apt-get install w32codecs libdvdcss2

Then the following message comes up in my terminal:

E: Could not open lock file /var/lib/dpkg/lock - open (13 Permission denied)
E: Unable to lock the administration directory (/var/lib/dpkg/), are you root?

I am logged in to my installation account { I haven’t set up another user account yet as I am trying to get this system up and running , so I presume I must be root user). Any clues? I am a relative newbie at using command terminal. Finally figured out why my password didnt show up in it . Now I am working on this project.
Any help would be appreciated.
P.S. WINDOZE sucks..lol

By: Kik

Kik — Fri, 28 Dec 2007 23:23:43 +0000

Yes, you can also view RealMedia files with it .
Thanks to this tut I’m able again to watch anime ^^.

By: amit

amit — Fri, 21 Dec 2007 15:57:11 +0000

thanx for the info.

By: Meneer R

Meneer R — Mon, 17 Dec 2007 21:02:17 +0000

You claim this also supports RealMedia files.

But that seems broken with Medibuntu/Gutsy.
I’m not sure why.

Have you tested it? Or did you just assume it still worked?