installing codecs

[NoOp]

On 04/09/2010 07:14 PM, Gary Kirkpatrick wrote:
> On Fri, Apr 9, 2010 at 6:58 PM, NoOp <glgxg at sbcglobal.net> wrote:
>> On 04/09/2010 01:35 PM, Gary Kirkpatrick wrote:
>>> I am doing some volunteer work at a school in Panama.  There are 15
>>> donated desktop computers.  12 have XP and the rest Vista.  I will
>>> install Edubuntu to dual boot.  There is no internet access for these
>>> computers.  I need to install codecs so that we can play videos and
>>> music.  I will be installing using a dvd I made from a download.  Can
>>> I somehow add the codecs to the DVD?  Or how else should I do this?
>>>
>>>
>>> thanks
>>>
>>> gary
>>>
>>
>> This might be of interest; Ritesh posted it last month:
>> http://permalink.gmane.org/gmane.linux.ubuntu.user/212128
>> [ANNOUNCE] apt-offline 0.9.7 released
>>
>> Might be worth looking into. Added info is here:
>> <http://www.debian-administration.org/article/Offline_Package_Management_for_APT>
...
> Thanks, looks interesting.  Two questions 1) I want to just enable
> codecs for video and music so an entire update may not be necessary.
> 
> 2) would I have to do each of 16 machines separately?  Don't they all
> need the same codecs?
> 
> gary
> 

To be honest, I've no idea. Never tried it & put it on the project list
:-) And yes, I think you'd need to do each machine unless you set your
machine up as an apt repository.

In the interim, it may be possible to just download the necessary .debs
and sneaker-net them to the machines. You most likely will want to review:

https://help.ubuntu.com/community/RestrictedFormats
https://help.ubuntu.com/community/RestrictedFormats/PlayingDVDs
https://help.ubuntu.com/community/FreeFormats
https://help.ubuntu.com/community/Medibuntu
 http://packages.medibuntu.org/
  http://packages.medibuntu.org/karmic/index.html

Or, shudder... I hear that linuxmint has all of the codecs already
included (never used it, so google). Other alternatives:
https://wiki.ubuntu.com/DerivativeTeam/Derivatives