Hello Gentlemen/Women

I have "ninja-installed" Ubuntu 6.06 on my sisters old (AMD 800Mhz) machine after I got tired of cleaning Windows spyware/virus on it. (apparently the machine sent spam, had a goddamned SMTPserver on port 25 etc.. :/)

Mostly shes happy with this Linux release, things works like the use to in windows, most things work etc, so cool beans..

But..there´s one big problem, I just cant get the damned .mp3 files to start working..(.ogg .wav etc works good)

I understand that this is due to a lack of a codec, but I cant find the codec anywhere to install. (Well, actually I found the lame codec on sourceforge but couldnt install it, with the ./configure Make thinga-majigs it kept saying it couldnt find a C compiler in the $PATH etc..)

CHecked on the ubuntuguide.org and it mentions to update/change repositories and then install a lot of codecs, but that didnt work either, says something about that the packages I try to isntall is "missing or outdated" and nothing is installed.

Dont know if I should try the newer 7.04 version instead, but Im a bit worried that the old machine, an 800Mhz AMD Athlon, 768Mb SDRAM, 32mb Geforce2, wont run the newer versions all that good(?)

Anyway, what I wanted to ask was: anyone have an idea on how to fix so that I can run .mp3 files on 6.06?

You may want to try Automatix

http://www.getautomatix.com/

And that system should run 7.04 with no problems.

Thanks man, I am going to try that Automatix, as soon as Im done installing 7.04 :P (installing as I type )

I know if you use Amarok in Feisty and try and play and mp3 it will automatically retreave the codec. It should work the same on Dapper as long as you use the latest verion of Amarok.

When I try playing mp3s in Amarok, Amarok just crashes. Any suggestions?

Hello !

Indeed, this system will run Feisty with no problem ...

If you install Feisty, please don't use automatix right away : at least try with the normal way before : just double click some MP3 and it will tell you what to do ...

If you want, you can also add Medibuntu repo for more multimedia possibilities.

Regards,
Biniou