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I am unable to see videos or listen to music, need drivers ?

Asked by paul m burridge

I have NO drivers installed I need to know where to get them from and how to instal them, I am unable to see videos or listen to music

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Marc Stewart (marc.stewart) said : 		#1

Drivers are for hardware problems. What you need are codecs. Install VLC—it'll install a bunch of them along with it. You might also want the Medibuntu ubuntu-restricted-extras package.

Open a terminal and type this:
sudo apt-get install vlc
sudo wget --output-document=/etc/apt/sources.list.d/medibuntu.list http://www.medibuntu.org/sources.list.d/$(lsb_release -cs).list
sudo apt-get update
sudo apt-get --allow-unauthenticated install medibuntu-keyring
sudo apt-get update
sudo apt-get install app-install-data-medibuntu apport-hooks-medibuntu ubuntu-restricted-extras

That's six lines—the second is quite long.

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

New to Ubuntu: read the Ubuntu Manual, it's very informative: http://ubuntu-manual.org/
Click on the "download Button" to download the latest PDF version.
The online help https://help.ubuntu.com/10.04/index.html

Relax and fun:
http://planet.ubuntu.com/ and Full Circle Magazine http://fullcirclemagazine.org/

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