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October 24, 2007
admin
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Making Ubuntu 7.10 / Ubuntu Studio Useful

Ubuntu 7.10 is an amazing thing. But they can't do some things "legally". But you can... if you don't mind having things on your computer you theoretically should not have.

Let's start with the basics that are legal, but "not free open source programs" and then add the Microsoft specific codecs for some DVD and other media playback and lets do this all as root, type 'sudo -s' and become root. It saves some typing. and if you mess up you can always re-install.

If you feel lucky, cut and paste this into a file and run it as root:
apt-get install ubuntu-restricted-extras
echo deb http://packages.medibuntu.org/ gutsy free non-free >>/etc/apt/sources.list
wget -q http://packages.medibuntu.org/medibuntu-key.gpg -O- | apt-key add -
apt-get update
apt-get install libdvdcss2
apt-get install w32codecs

jacko
2007-10-26

Thanks, that was easy. I also checked out medibuntu.org, while their instructions had variations for other versions, I liked the way you did it "all at once".

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