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Medibuntu repositories available for Ubuntu 13.04 Raring Ringtail | PPA

Written by M. Zinoune on . Posted in Linux Mint, Linux tutorials, Ubuntu

Updated: 19-04-2013 : 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, some examples of packages included in Medibuntu we find libdvdcss package from VideoLAN, FFMpeg codecs not supported in multiverse, and the external binary codecs package (commonly known as w32codecs) used by MPlayer and xine.

Medibuntu repositories are available for Ubuntu, Kubuntu, Xubuntu, Lubuntu and LinuxMint for both 32 and 64 bit.

Install Medibuntu on Ubuntu 13.04 Raring Ringtail,12.04 and 12.10:

Open terminal and enter the following commands:

sudo -E wget --output-document=/etc/apt/sources.list.d/medibuntu.list http://www.medibuntu.org/sources.list.d/$(lsb_release -cs).list && sudo apt-get --quiet update && sudo apt-get --yes --quiet --allow-unauthenticated install medibuntu-keyring && sudo apt-get --quiet update

Medibuntu’s repository get deactivated when upgrading to a newer Ubuntu release, so if you had Medibuntu installed On ubuntu 11.10 before, you should use the commands above to install it  again in Ubuntu 12.04 LTS.

Now if you want to add medibuntu packages to Ubuntu software center, you need to enter the command bellow:

  •  The first (APP-INSTALL-DATA-MEDIBUNTU) will cause many apps from the Medibuntu repository to appear in Ubuntu Software Center (Ubuntu 9.10+).

  •  The second will allow users to generate crash reports against Medibuntu packages and submit them to the Medibuntu bugtracker
 sudo apt-get install app-install-data-medibuntu apport-hooks-medibuntu

For installation instructions in details via GUI and for previous released of Ubuntu, please check our previous post.

For questions please refer to our Q/A forum at : http://ask.unixmen.com

  • Rodney Jackson

    Well, that just messed everything up. Now, when I apt-get update the terminal I get

     E: Type ‘<!DOCTYPE' is not known on line 1 in source list /etc/apt/sources.list.d/medibuntu.list
    E: The list of sources could not be read.

    Update-manager won't open now and software center crashes before opening.

    • phearce

      check if you have a ‘space’ before the ‘sudo’ command

  • jimv2000

    There’s a space after medibuntu.org that’s messing up the command.

    • zinovsky

      I removed the space after medibuntu.org. Thanks 

  • dakira

    Why on earth are people adding this repository. There is nothing in it that you could possibly need. If you need codecs ubuntu-restricted-extras has everything in existence. And if you need libdvdcss you can just installl it through the script that comes with libdvdread4:

    sudo apt-get install ubuntu-restricted-extras
    sudo /usr/share/doc/libdvdread4/install-css.sh

    You can thank me later ;)

  • wandersw

    I think there’s something missing here:

    “Now if you want to add medibuntu packages to Ubuntu software center, you need to enter the command bellow: The first (APP-INSTALL-DATA-MEDIBUNTU) will cause many apps from the Medibuntu repository to appear in Ubuntu Software Center (Ubuntu 9.10+)…..”What exactly is the command?

    • Phill Erasmus

      Compare the line below with the statement:

      sudo apt-get install app-install-data-medibuntu apport-hooks-medibuntu

  • callme

    If Ubuntu Restricted Extras covers covers it, how do I back out the above Medibuntu changes and simply use the restricted extras?
     

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