Medibuntu

how do I install the medibuntu packages

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How do I install the medibuntu packages. I am very new to linx and i need help.

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Stephen Seplowitz (sep1318) said : 		#1

The Medibuntu website itself has a very quick and clean intruction manual for do so, located here: http://www.medibuntu.org/repository.php
Those instructions will add the repositories to your list, and then (after you update) you can add programs just like any other through your favorite package manager.

Hope that helps, and welcome to the world of Linux and Ubuntu!

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Patrick Brewer (josephbrwr) said : 		#2

On the repository how2 I ran the two commands but this still does not tell me how to install the packages. the one I am trying to download is the libdvdss2 b/c my dvd player isn't working. Is there a easier way to get my dvd player to work. this is alot tougher then windows. I need a beginners step by step solution for my issue. thanks

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Adam McGreggor (adam-amyl) said : 		#3

https://help.ubuntu.com/community/Medibuntu has some instructions.

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Patrick Brewer (josephbrwr) said : 		#4

Thanks you. It took a few more steps and wasn't as easy as installing a driver in windows. Again I am a beginner to Linux. But once I got the proper instruction it was pretty easy.
Thanks for your help.

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atoms (adtoms) said : 		#5

I tried to install the medibuntu package, and got the following -now my APT/Synaptic will not work at all, and I am newbie enough not to know how to un-do this;

root@atoms-desktop:/home/atoms# wget -q http://packages.medibuntu.org/medibuntu-key.gpg -O- | sudo apt-key add -
OK
root@atoms-desktop:/home/atoms# sudo wget http://www.medibuntu.org/sources.list.d/dapper.list -O /etc/apt/sources.list.d/medibuntu.list
--23:03:55-- http://www.medibuntu.org/sources.list.d/dapper.list
           => `/etc/apt/sources.list.d/medibuntu.list'
Resolving www.medibuntu.org... 87.98.242.10
Connecting to www.medibuntu.org|87.98.242.10|:80... connected.
HTTP request sent, awaiting response... 200 OK
Length: 238 [text/plain]

100%[===========================================================>] 238 --.--K/s

23:03:55 (10.32 MB/s) - `/etc/apt/sources.list.d/medibuntu.list' saved [238/238]

root@atoms-desktop:/home/atoms# sudo apt-get update
E: Type 'medibuntu' is not known on line 26 in source list /etc/apt/sources.list
root@atoms-desktop:/home/atoms#