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Originally Posted by XavierP
If you're on Kubuntu, check out EasyUbuntu and Automatix - they both automate installing these types of packages.
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Yeah, install automatx and easyubuntu, that is unless you want a system that actually works. Automatix is the worst offender here, so I'll focus on that.
Automatix (and Automatix2) are scripts that are used to install unofficial packages and often breaks. Sometimes it's easier to reinstall than to fix these errors. Kubuntu (and for that matter *buntu) do NOT recommend or support it.
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Originally Posted by rastavideo
That brings up a question on repositories ... how do you get Adept to show a usable multiverse? I couldn't install it using Adept because it wouldn't show the me the right packages; that's why I downloaded and installed manually.
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There is a guide to enabling universe/multiverse on kubuntu with adept here
https://help.ubuntu.com/community/Repositories/Kubuntu
However, the codecs you want (to play wmv) wouldn't be in there. There is a separate package for them (
See this page)
Basically all you need to do is:
Code:
wget -c http://www.debian-multimedia.org/pool/main/w/w32codecs/w32codecs_20061022-0.0_i386.deb
sudo dpkg -i w32codecs_20061022-0.0_i386.deb