Medibuntu to the rescue

The first thing new users realised after installing Ubuntu is that they cannot play most of the songs and videos and this is because Ubuntu by default do not include this pakages (codecs etc) due to legal reasons (copyright, license, patent, etc).

Here is where we need Medibuntu

Medibuntu is a packaging project dedicated to distributing software that cannot be included in Ubuntu for various reasons, related to geographical variations in legislation regarding intellectual property, security and other issues:

• patentability of software, algorithms, formats and other abstract creation
• legal restrictions on freedom of speech or communication
• restrictions on the use of certain types of technical solution, such as cryptography
• legal restrictions on imports of software technology, requiring for example specific permissions
• etc.
  

Medibuntu has free and non-free components.

Disclaimer: Patent and copyright laws operate differently depending on which country you are in. Please obtain legal advice if you are unsure whether a particular patent or restriction applies to a media format you wish to use in your country.

See Ubuntu's Free Software Philosophy and the FreeFormats page for a more comprehensive discussion of these issues.

Adding the Repositories

Add Medibuntu to your sources.list, as well as its GPG key to your keyring. Make sure to use the correct sources.list that corresponds to your current distribution.

Go to the Terminal and type the below commands based on your version of Ubuntu OS.

Ubuntu 6.06 "Dapper Drake":

sudo wget http://www.medibuntu.org/sources.list.d/dapper.list -O /etc/apt/sources.list.d/medibuntu.list

Ubuntu 6.10 "Edgy Eft":

sudo wget http://www.medibuntu.org/sources.list.d/edgy.list -O /etc/apt/sources.list.d/medibuntu.list

Ubuntu 7.04 "Feisty Fawn":

sudo wget http://www.medibuntu.org/sources.list.d/feisty.list -O /etc/apt/sources.list.d/medibuntu.list

Ubuntu 7.10 "Gutsy Gibbon":

sudo wget http://www.medibuntu.org/sources.list.d/gutsy.list -O /etc/apt/sources.list.d/medibuntu.list

Ubuntu 8.04 "Hardy Heron":

sudo wget http://www.medibuntu.org/sources.list.d/hardy.list -O /etc/apt/sources.list.d/medibuntu.list

Then, add the GPG Key:

sudo apt-get update && sudo apt-get install medibuntu-keyring && sudo apt-get update

And you are done.

If you are confused on what is repositories then you should gain more
knowledge on this by Clicking Here.

Now you can install pakages like

libdvdcss2
w32codecs
w64codecs
ppc-codecs

And many more pakages from Synaptic Pakage Manager.

Have Fun!

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