Re: installing codecs

I''d second Mint as ready to go out of the box. Another option is AptonCD in
which you create your own Ubuntu. Include the programs / codecs you want and
leave the rest out. Played with it and it looks promising. But mint would be
the easiest route.

On Fri, Apr 9, 2010 at 9:54 PM, NoOp <glgxg@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

On 04/09/2010 07:14 PM, Gary Kirkpatrick wrote:
On Fri, Apr 9, 2010 at 6:58 PM, NoOp <glgxg@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
On 04/09/2010 01:35 PM, Gary Kirkpatrick wrote:
I am doing some volunteer work at a school in Panama. There are 15
donated desktop computers. 12 have XP and the rest Vista. I will
install Edubuntu to dual boot. There is no internet access for these
computers. I need to install codecs so that we can play videos and
music. I will be installing using a dvd I made from a download. Can
I somehow add the codecs to the DVD? Or how else should I do this?


thanks

gary


This might be of interest; Ritesh posted it last month:
http://permalink.gmane.org/gmane.linux.ubuntu.user/212128
[ANNOUNCE] apt-offline 0.9.7 released

Might be worth looking into. Added info is here:
<
http://www.debian-administration.org/article/Offline_Package_Management_for_APT

...
Thanks, looks interesting. Two questions 1) I want to just enable
codecs for video and music so an entire update may not be necessary.

2) would I have to do each of 16 machines separately? Don't they all
need the same codecs?

gary


To be honest, I've no idea. Never tried it & put it on the project list
:-) And yes, I think you'd need to do each machine unless you set your
machine up as an apt repository.

In the interim, it may be possible to just download the necessary .debs
and sneaker-net them to the machines. You most likely will want to review:

https://help.ubuntu.com/community/RestrictedFormats
https://help.ubuntu.com/community/RestrictedFormats/PlayingDVDs
https://help.ubuntu.com/community/FreeFormats
https://help.ubuntu.com/community/Medibuntu
http://packages.medibuntu.org/
http://packages.medibuntu.org/karmic/index.html

Or, shudder... I hear that linuxmint has all of the codecs already
included (never used it, so google). Other alternatives:
https://wiki.ubuntu.com/DerivativeTeam/Derivatives




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