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Multi problems June13,10

Asked by Bobbynavigate

I screwed up the partiton on my Dell latitude e5500 for the oriagal Windows operaing system and didnt have an installation disk for Windows so i downloaded Ubunto. I cant watch movies but can listen to cds. This model laptop has a built in bluetooth and WiFi but says, it does not exist. Any time I try to open a file on a cd or flash drive or play a game cd an error messages says the Archive Manger has an issue. Do I need dell latitiude drivers disk? But like I said how can I use the disk when the Archive Manger has an issue?
  When I create the disk do I need to write it ISO format?

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actionparsnip (andrew-woodhead666) said : 		#1

sudo apt-get install ubuntu-restricted-extras

The OS is called UBUNTU, not Ubunto.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ubuntu_(operating_system)

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marcobra (Marco Braida) (marcobra) said : 		#2

Open a Terminal from the menu Applications->Accessories->Terminal

Tip: right click with mouse on the terminal title caption and select the item "Always on Top" doing this you will force the terminal window to stay on top of the other windows and you will find very easy to copy single row from this web page into the terminal...
Something more about using the terminal https://help.ubuntu.com/community/UsingTheTerminal

Then type or better copy and paste a row a time then press enter:
(Tip: select the single row to copy then right click into the terminal and to quick paste click with middle button of mouse )

sudo apt-get install ubuntu-restricted-extras

give your user password when requested, you don't see nothing when you type it, then press enter.

Hope this helps

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