Enable Medibuntu in Ubuntu 8.10

Medibuntu if you don’t already know is the Ubuntu repository for non-free packages which can’t be bundled with Ubuntu for regal reasons. Acrobat reader, quick time player, windows specific video/audio codecs, DVD support and the list goes on.

Adding the Medibuntu repository into your Ubuntu 8.10 is easy.

1. Fire up your terminal and run,

sudo wget http://www.medibuntu.org/sources.list.d/intrepid.list --output-document=/etc/apt/sources.list.d/medibuntu.list

2. Install the GPG keys. While still in the terminal run,

sudo apt-get update && sudo apt-get install medibuntu-keyring && sudo apt-get update

3. Install support for Windows codecs.

sudo apt-get install w32codecs

Sources: Medibuntu | Launchpad

3 Responses to “Enable Medibuntu in Ubuntu 8.10”

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1. daniel says:

   April 14, 2009 at 2:52 pm

   your line about windows codecs is NOT working on my pc. It’s telling me that it’s an invalid operation! Otherwise it worked smoothly. Thanks for you help.

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2. Sarge says:

   May 2, 2009 at 5:34 am

   @daniel

   line should read:

   sudo apt-get install w32codecs

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3. adigi says:

   June 23, 2009 at 8:49 pm

   I saw the error line on the w32codecs too. I was familiar enough to fix for myself but I’m glad the correction was here too.
   Thank you very much for the info on enabling mediabuntu!

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