how to get libdvdcss and w32codecs through apt

[Andrew Hunter]

On Friday 17 November 2006 02:14, Evan Leibovitch wrote:
> Andrew Hunter wrote:
> > On Thursday 16 November 2006 21:03, Timothy Webster wrote:
> >> I find ubuntu planet is a good source of this sort of triva. I seen this
> >> a couple days ago. There is others, but this works for me.
> >>
> >> deb http://mirror2.ubuntulinux.nl/ edgy-seveas all
> >> deb-src http://mirror2.ubuntulinux.nl/ edgy-seveas all
>
> I heartily recommend the Penguin Liberation Front, which has been
> packaging "litigious" (cute term) and non-free packages for many years.
> They do both RPM packages (for Mandriva) and DEB packages (for Ubuntu),
> document well what they do, and actually give some support to the packages.
>
> http://doc.ubuntu-fr.org/doc/plf
> http://packages.freecontrib.org/plf/
>
> They even use Launchpad for bug reporting:
> https://launchpad.net/products/plf/+bugs
>
> > Just to make a note, those are 3rd party repos (even though they are
> > maintained by a Ubuntu developer), and as such are not  supported except
> > by  the maintainer.
>
> I think the fact that you can't find it from the Ubuntu.com website is a
> good clue of that. :-)
>
> Then again, I was under the impression that packages from even the
> universe and multiverse sections of the "official" repos were also
> unsupported.
>

Only unsupported for commercial support from Canonical.

> - Evan

-- 
"First, God created idiots. But that was just for practise, then he made 
school boards."
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