Computer help needed again ~!!!!

[Brian d marge]

Does anyone out there use Linux ubuntu, straight from the box its has everything, works a treat , Just doesnt support MP3 ,,,, you can set it up but ,,,How

Stephen

[MOTOXXX]

u want to talk to limbimtimwim

im sure that there is an option you can select on the install.

or there will be a patch - google it and youll find something

[dhunt]

Does anyone out there use Linux ubuntu, straight from the box its has everything, works a treat , Just doesnt support MP3 ,,,, you can set it up but ,,,How

Stephen

What do you mean by that? You have a media player and it can't play mp3 or you can't find anything to play it?

Try

xmms
mplayer <-- command line
xine
totem
mpg123 <-- command line

All these programs should work.

[Lias]

Talk to MT.. He runs ubuntu on one of his boxen.

[phaedrus]

if you haven't already, check out automatix and easy ubuntu i don't use ubuntu myself, so i don't know if mp3 capability is included by default.

[Brian d marge]

Firstly Linux isnt distributed with win32 or drivers such as that as theu are copy writed
It does come completly packaged with some excellent gear,,,its all yhere simple and easy to use

BUT

it dont play me music!

I have been down the easy ubuntu and automatx ,,,one killed the screen the othere is...well I couldnt get it to go

Now I am not edumacated in computers,,, it is straight forward to use \\

but I just want to install mp3 drivers ,,,without going back to university !!!!!!

MT ...who dat ???

Thanks for the responses
Stephen

the version is dapper the latest one V6.6 I think
on a old pentium 3

[dhunt]

Firstly Linux isnt distributed with win32 or drivers such as that as theu are copy writed
It does come completly packaged with some excellent gear,,,its all yhere simple and easy to use

BUT

it dont play me music!

I have been down the easy ubuntu and automatx ,,,one killed the screen the othere is...well I couldnt get it to go

Now I am not edumacated in computers,,, it is straight forward to use \\

but I just want to install mp3 drivers ,,,without going back to university !!!!!!

MT ...who dat ???

Thanks for the responses
Stephen

Haha - I'm not sure any one needs to go back to uni with what you can find on internet forums and google these days

I think what you need to do install stuff from the command line
apt-get install packages....

This website basically tells how to do it without using the flash installers https://help.ubuntu.com/community/RestrictedFormats

Have a look at this website and see if you can follow it through. If not post back here. Would be nice to know what flavour and version of ubuntu you are running. And where exactly you are getting to - more specifically what program you are would like to get playing your mp3s.

ie.

# apt-get install mpg321
$ mpg321 somemp3.mp3 <-- this should play your mp3 from commandline

I presume you have sound all working?

[Brian d marge]

Have read that restrcted format paget till I am blue in the face . Have written the thing out ... I wanted to get totem xine , to work ,,,( or ANY DAMN THING ...did install realplayer but it to needed codecs ) so that I can play me mp3 amd Mpeg files ,,,

I have downloaded totem-xine
gine , libxine etra codecs Myplayer The trouble is I am not entirely sure if I have4 the right files ,,, * the tarz* or compressed files have all been extracted to a folder called mediap in the home directory , then in the terminal I did sudo su mkdir /usr/local/lib/codecs

this happened ok , but I cant copy the files from the folder mediap in home , because I dont have permission ..
and dont know the command line to copy

my next wild idea is to mkdir in home called media2 then drag and drop all files into that then , from the terminal type sudo su apt-get install xine-ui


after that

I give up


Stephen

its a nice GUI , but if I have to spend 3 days to install things ...I ll go back on bended knee to Mr Gates

[phaedrus]

could you post your "/etc/apt/sources.list" file it would be helpful.

[Brian d marge]

Ive just found an CD which aparantly update it all ,,,,just downloading now so will try that first

then I will copy the sources

Stephen

[dhunt]

Have read that restrcted format paget till I am blue in the face . Have written the thing out ... I wanted to get totem xine , to work ,,,( or ANY DAMN THING ...did install realplayer but it to needed codecs ) so that I can play me mp3 amd Mpeg files ,,,

I have downloaded totem-xine
gine , libxine etra codecs Myplayer The trouble is I am not entirely sure if I have4 the right files ,,, * the tarz* or compressed files have all been extracted to a folder called mediap in the home directory , then in the terminal I did sudo su mkdir /usr/local/lib/codecs

this happened ok , but I cant copy the files from the folder mediap in home , because I dont have permission ..
and dont know the command line to copy

my next wild idea is to mkdir in home called media2 then drag and drop all files into that then , from the terminal type sudo su apt-get install xine-ui


after that

I give up


Stephen

its a nice GUI , but if I have to spend 3 days to install things ...I ll go back on bended knee to Mr Gates

Ok. You shouldn't need the win32codecs package - that is only necessary for playing stuff like WMV not mp3.

To copy stuff places as root. The easiest way is probably

$ sudo su <-- Turns you into root
You are now root until you logout. Not just for one command
# cp source destination <-- how to copy a file
# cp -r sourcedir destdir <-- how to copy a directory

But you shouldn't need to do this

As root user what does this command do? Can you post the results
# apt-get install totem

I don't suppose you could give someone a SSH login to your computer so they could help you remotely?

Lastly you don't install tar balls (*.tar.gz or *.tar.bz2) using apt-get. You only install stuff with apt-get that end in *.deb.

Hope this helps.

[Brian d marge]

As root user what does this command do? Can you post the results
# apt-get install totem

Hope this helps.

says couldnt find package totem. I installed Xubuntu which was suggested by the help desk Emailed sales , got a nasty reply ...but some info

I joined the forums of ubuntu, downloaded a cd called ubuntu add on, followed the instuctions and my CD wouldnt recognise the Cd when I tried get cd in software properties

/etc/apt/sources.list comes back with permission denied

and finally I managed to get the internet working on this laptop but , now when I downloaded real player , its a .bin file , Ubuntu double click on file and it opened , Xubunu wont recognise the .bin ,,,#$$$%%^&&*

all I want to do is play the music .......

If this was a car and I had to shag round like this in order to drive it ..there would be no cars on the road

There is a lifetimes supply of green bling in it for anyone ..who can help

P.s no redirecting to help file . useless

or forums

Just open terminal and type .............

I dont see what else I can do ......

If I havent solved this by Monday ...ill go ouyt and purchase a legal copy of window ..........

Then with Linux voodoo dolly in hand ,,,,cause major PAIN to all those programmers of even thought of using a unix code ( dont know what that means but it sounded technical !!)

Kind Regards

Stephen

[dhunt]

and finally I managed to get the internet working on this laptop but , now when I downloaded real player , its a .bin file , Ubuntu double click on file and it opened , Xubunu wont recognise the .bin ,,,#$$$%%^&&*

all I want to do is play the music .......

If this was a car and I had to shag round like this in order to drive it ..there would be no cars on the road

There is a lifetimes supply of green bling in it for anyone ..who can help

P.s no redirecting to help file . useless

or forums

Just open terminal and type .............

I dont see what else I can do ......

If I havent solved this by Monday ...ill go ouyt and purchase a legal copy of window ..........

No what ever you don't get Windoze!!! You will regret it.

ok first start with your permission problems. You will probably need to be root to do much of this stuff.
sudo su
Should leave you with a login as root.

To confirm this type
whoami
Which should come back with root.

then try
cat /etc/apt/sources.list

You need to have a could lines like these in them. Amoung other lines.

## PLF REPOSITORY (Unsupported. May contain illegal packages. Use at own risk.)
deb http://packages.freecontrib.org/ubuntu/plf dapper free non-free
deb-src http://packages.freecontrib.org/ubuntu/plf dapper free non-free

The important thing here is the non-free keyword. Your sources may have a different mirror.

Also if there are any lines starting with # deb remove the #

then do a
apt-get update

apt-get install win32codecs totem-xine

It's called totem-xine in ubuntu not totem on the debian box I was looking at Sorry.

or apt-get install realplay <-- This is for realplayer

David

[dhunt]

Here's somebodies sources.list file with all the stuff in it you would need.

## Add comments (##) in front of any line to remove it from being checked.
## Use the following sources.list at your own risk.

deb http://archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu dapper main restricted universe multiverse
deb-src http://archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu dapper main restricted universe multiverse

## MAJOR BUG FIX UPDATES produced after the final release
deb http://archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu dapper-updates main restricted universe multiverse
deb-src http://archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu dapper-updates main restricted universe multiverse

## UBUNTU SECURITY UPDATES
deb http://security.ubuntu.com/ubuntu dapper-security main restricted universe multiverse
deb-src http://security.ubuntu.com/ubuntu dapper-security main restricted universe multiverse

## BACKPORTS REPOSITORY (Unsupported. May contain illegal packages. Use at own risk.)
deb http://archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu dapper-backports main restricted universe multiverse
deb-src http://archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu dapper-backports main restricted universe multiverse

## PLF REPOSITORY (Unsupported. May contain illegal packages. Use at own risk.)
deb http://packages.freecontrib.org/ubuntu/plf dapper free non-free
deb-src http://packages.freecontrib.org/ubuntu/plf dapper free non-free 

[Brian d marge]

Ok we have sound and access to the repository !!! ( from the grassy knoll)

Yes you are right it does handle files very well ,,, I can see me staying with Linux ...

There are a few more things .. but I can do them later ..Realplayer is a .bin file so needs to be a deb file

winamp is a Rpm file so needs to be a deb file

Other than that its working a treat ... I like evolution mail ..it sync with my pda a treat true plug and play ...no more hotsync issues

Big Bling heading your way fella

Stephen
I can live without me Maiden .... and fixing bikes is S&**( without AC/DC