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gnome-media package

Installing Flash Plug-In

Asked by tyler

I am a newby, and I am having some trouble installing Flash and other codecs like mpeg/mp3 to play media from my new Linux machine. Can anyone help out in learning how to install simple things like Flash and Mp3 codecs?

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tyler (tyler-tylersparks) said : 		#1

Installing XMMS

getting this error..

tyler@Stumpy:~/Desktop$ cd xmms-1.2.10
tyler@Stumpy:~/Desktop/xmms-1.2.10$ ./configure
checking build system type... i686-pc-linux-gnuoldld
checking host system type... i686-pc-linux-gnuoldld
checking for a BSD-compatible install... /usr/bin/install -c
checking whether build environment is sane... yes
checking for gawk... no
checking for mawk... mawk
checking whether make sets $(MAKE)... no
checking for prefix by checking for xmms... no
checking for gcc... no
checking for cc... no
checking for cc... no
checking for cl... no
configure: error: no acceptable C compiler found in $PATH
See `config.log' for more details.

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Luca Falavigna (dktrkranz) said : 		#2

If you want to build XMMS from source code, you have to install build-essential metapackage, but you will probably install XMMS via apt-get/Synaptic.
In order to get MP3 and other non-free codecs, see page https://help.ubuntu.com/community/RestrictedFormats.

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Jonathan Anderson (jonathan-anderson) said : 		#3

Is there a particular reason that you're installing xmms from source?
"sudo aptitude install xmms" should work just fine...

Anyway, if you do mean to install from source, but you haven't installed
a compiler, run "sudo aptitude install g++".

#!/jon

tyler wrote:
> Support request #1919 on Ubuntu changed:
> https://launchpad.net/distros/ubuntu/+ticket/1919
>
> Comment:
> Installing XMMS
>
> getting this error..
>
> tyler@Stumpy:~/Desktop$ cd xmms-1.2.10
> tyler@Stumpy:~/Desktop/xmms-1.2.10$ ./configure
> checking build system type... i686-pc-linux-gnuoldld
> checking host system type... i686-pc-linux-gnuoldld
> checking for a BSD-compatible install... /usr/bin/install -c
> checking whether build environment is sane... yes
> checking for gawk... no
> checking for mawk... mawk
> checking whether make sets $(MAKE)... no
> checking for prefix by checking for xmms... no
> checking for gcc... no
> checking for cc... no
> checking for cc... no
> checking for cl... no
> configure: error: no acceptable C compiler found in $PATH
> See `config.log' for more details.
>
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Jonathan Anderson (jonathan-anderson) said : 		#4

Anyway, to get things like Flash and MP3s working, see https://wiki.ubuntu.com/RestrictedFormats. You'll have to enable some extra repositories and install a couple of extra packages (using Synaptic, Adept, aptitude, etc.).

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tyler (tyler-tylersparks) said : 		#5

Thank you for the help, i got it working now and i am very excited!

+++Tyler +++

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Luca Falavigna (dktrkranz) said : 		#6

When ready, please close this ticket. Thank you.

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tyler (tyler-tylersparks) said : 		#7

thnks