April 19, 2007 by keith
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Non-free packages, such as Macromedia Flash and Sun's Java packages, are not installed as defaults in most UK tags Linux systems. In the release of latest version of Ubuntu (codenamed Feisty Fawn), you might have noticed that all these packages are not installed as these are restricted by copyright. However, there is a VERY easy way out to install them, with just a single command line.
The following packages will be installed automatically:
- gstreamer0.10-plugins-ugly
- gstreamer0.10-plugins-ugly-multiverse
- msttcorefonts
- flashplugin-nonfree
- sun-java6-plugin
Note, this only works in Ubuntu 7.04 Feisty Fawn version.
To install these non-free packages, simply execute the command line under root privilege:
sudo apt-get install ubuntu-restricted-extras
Simple, isn't it? Don't you just love Ubuntu?
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Cool. I was still manually
Submitted by Guest (not verified) on Wed, 2007-04-25 04:25.
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Cool. I was still manually installing the individual packages. Thanks for the info.
No problem, I'm glad that it
Submitted by keith on Wed, 2007-04-25 09:31.
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No problem, I'm glad that it helps.
Not exactly
Submitted by Maj (not verified) on Mon, 2008-07-07 20:43.
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$ sudo apt-get install ubuntu-restricted-extrasReading package lists... Done
Building dependency tree
Reading state information... Done
E: Couldn't find package ubuntu-restricted-extras
Simple, isn't it? Don't you just love incomplete documentation that makes false assumptions?
Repository
Submitted by keith on Tue, 2008-07-08 09:55.
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Hi Maj,
I have to admit this is a very straight forward procedure, and thus documentation will not exist.
It depends very much from where your repository is. It may be inevitable that some repositories do not have the full list of packages.
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