Adept Universe/Multiverse?

[xerostar33]

Hi everyone,
This is my first time I've ever used Linux, and the installation went very smoothly. My problem now is that I can't play MP3s, and after looking through the FAQs it says to download the libxine-extracodecs from the Multiverse repository. I looked at a bunch of websites and I think I made the proper changes so that those repositories are available, but I still can't find that package. What should I do? Attached is what my sources.list file looks like.

# 
# deb cdrom:[Kubuntu 6.06 _Dapper Drake_ - Release i386 (20060531)]/ dapper main restricted 


deb cdrom:[Kubuntu 6.06 _Dapper Drake_ - Release i386 (20060531)]/ dapper main restricted 

deb [url]http://ca.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/[/url] dapper main restricted 
deb-src [url]http://ca.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/[/url] dapper main restricted 

## Major bug fix updates produced after the final release of the
## distribution.
deb [url]http://ca.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/[/url] dapper-updates main restricted 
deb-src [url]http://ca.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/[/url] dapper-updates main restricted 

## Uncomment the following two lines to add software from the 'universe'
## repository.
## N.B. software from this repository is ENTIRELY UNSUPPORTED by the Ubuntu
## team, and may not be under a free licence. Please satisfy yourself as to
## your rights to use the software. Also, please note that software in
## universe WILL NOT receive any review or updates from the Ubuntu security
## team.
deb [url]http://ca.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/[/url] dapper universe 
deb-src [url]http://ca.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/[/url] dapper universe 

## Uncomment the following two lines to add software from the 'backports'
## repository.
## N.B. software from this repository may not have been tested as
## extensively as that contained in the main release, although it includes
## newer versions of some applications which may provide useful features.
## Also, please note that software in backports WILL NOT receive any review
## or updates from the Ubuntu security team.
deb [url]http://ca.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/[/url] dapper-backports main restricted universe multiverse 
deb-src [url]http://ca.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/[/url] dapper-backports main restricted universe multiverse 


deb [url]http://security.ubuntu.com/ubuntu[/url] dapper-security main restricted 
deb-src [url]http://security.ubuntu.com/ubuntu[/url] dapper-security main restricted 
deb [url]http://security.ubuntu.com/ubuntu[/url] dapper-security universe 
deb-src [url]http://security.ubuntu.com/ubuntu[/url] dapper-security universe

[nixternal]

Re: Adept Universe/Multiverse?

here is mine, as yours seems pretty close...get rid of cdrom though...# it out...

## All officially supported packages, including security- and other updates
deb [url]http://archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu[/url] dapper main restricted
deb [url]http://security.ubuntu.com/ubuntu[/url] dapper-security main restricted
deb [url]http://archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu[/url] dapper-updates main restricted

## The source packages (only needed to recompile existing packages)
#deb-src [url]http://archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu[/url] dapper main restricted
#deb-src [url]http://security.ubuntu.com/ubuntu[/url] dapper-security main restricted
#deb-src [url]http://archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu[/url] dapper-updates main restricted

## All community supported packages, including security- and other updates
deb [url]http://archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu[/url] dapper universe multiverse
deb [url]http://security.ubuntu.com/ubuntu[/url] dapper-security universe multiverse
deb [url]http://archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu[/url] dapper-updates universe multiverse

## The source packages (only needed to recompile existing packages)
#deb-src [url]http://archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu[/url] dapper universe multiverse
#deb-src [url]http://security.ubuntu.com/ubuntu[/url] dapper-security universe multiverse
#deb-src [url]http://archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu[/url] dapper-updates universe multiverse

## All extra packages
deb [url]http://kubuntu.org/packages/amarok-14[/url] dapper main
deb [url]http://kubuntu.org/packages/kde-353[/url] dapper main

## All temporary packages
# debian.scribus.net - Primary repository
#deb [url]http://debian.scribus.net/debian[/url] breezy main restricted
#deb-src [url]http://debian.scribus.net/debian[/url] breezy main restricted

# musicbrainz
deb [url]http://users.musicbrainz.org/~luks/ubuntu[/url] dapper main

The last 3 packages #All extra packages, #All temporary packages, and #musicbrainz, you don't need. If you have it setup this same way..then it will work..also...make sure you refresh Adept after making changes...I don't use Adept as I am used to the command line.

sudo apt-get update

that will update ept and every package available will now show. enjoy!!!

[xerostar33]

Re: Adept Universe/Multiverse?

I wanted to copy just this section of the code into my sources.list file, but it won't let me save it! It looks like I'm locked out of a lot of folders (I'm guessing these are important ones ) and it tells me that I don't have the permission to open up some of those folders. What do I do?

Thanks in advance.

[MoonRise]

Re: Adept Universe/Multiverse?

You can modify those files if you open Kate as Root. Be carful though, make a backup of those files first. I don't know the exact command to make the backup, I've seen it here in this forum though. I'm relatively new myself to Linux and have learned a lot, but I rely on this Forum a good bit too.

[Fenyx]

Re: Adept Universe/Multiverse?

the sources.list is a file owned by root (the administrator) so you need to run it as root. I would teach you two methods. You choose which one you like better.

Method A: Using Adept
1. Run Adept
2. Click on the Adept menu at the top and choose "Manage Repositories"
3. Click the line containing "deb http://it.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/ dapper universe"
4. Now, click on the word "universe" near the end of the line. Add the word multiverse and press Enter. Make sure that "universe" wasn't deleted. That part should now read "universe multiverse"
5. Do the same for the line containing "deb-src http://it.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/ dapper universe". Again, the last part of the line should read "universe multiverse"
6. Now click on the "Apply" button at the bottom, and then Close.
7. Click on "Fetch Updates" at the top.

This will refresh your repositories and you will be able to find libxine-extracodecs.

Method B: Manually editing sources.list
1. Press Alt+F2, this will launch a Run command dialog box.
2. Type

kdesu kate /etc/apt/sources.list

to run kate as root, and open the sources.list. It will ask for a password. I suppose you know what enter here.
3. edit the lines that I told you.
4. Save the file and close Kate
5. Open up Adept and click on Fetch Updates at once.

Hope that helps!

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Btw, I'd just like to point out a nifty feature in KDE (not sure if it also exists in GNOME). Once you edit a file, whether it be a text file, document, image, etc, using any of KDE's apps, it automatically creates a backup copy with a "~" at the end of the filename. For example, if you edited and saved sources.list, Kate will automatically make a copy of the previous version of the file and name it sources.list~. If you'd like to restore that previous version, just delete the newer one and rename the backup version by removing the "~".

[xerostar33]

Re: Adept Universe/Multiverse?

That worked perfectly.

Thanks a lot for the help everyone! 8)