Here’s how to install the restricted extras in Ubuntu Linux 11.04 ‘Natty Narwhal’:
1. Issue the following command at the terminal –
sudo apt-get update
2. After the package list has been updated, issue the following command at the terminal –
sudo apt-get upgrade
3. After the packages have been upgraded, issue the following command at the terminal –
sudo apt-get install ubuntu-restricted-extras
Enter ‘y’ when prompted.
4. After the packages have been downloaded, you’ll need to accept the license agreement for installation of Microsoft Core Fonts.
5. Now just wait for the installation to complete.
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You are welcome Lucy.
Cheers.
Hello,
I did the following
$ sudo apt-get install update && sudo apt-get install upgrade
$ sudo apt-get install ubuntu-restricted-extras
Reading package lists… Done
Building dependency tree
Reading state information… Done
E: Unable to locate package ubuntu-restricted-extras
I am at Ubuntu11.04. Any ideas would be appreciated.
Dale
Hello Dale,
This may be a temporary problem at the server end as we were able to successfully install ‘ubuntu-restricted-extras’ in Linux Mint 11 (which is based on Ubuntu 11.04) in out test environment.
Please try to run the commands again and let us know how it goes.
Regards,
admins
I appreciate you getting back to me. I had to edit the /etc/apt/sources.list to use the multiverse repository. After that I did a the ‘apt-get update’ and ‘apt-get upgrade’ and it pulled everything down. Took me a couple of days to figure this out though I am now a happy camper. Thanks again
Thank you! 😀