[RndTbl] Ubuntu newbie question
Mike Pfaiffer
high.res.mike at gmail.com
Wed Nov 1 21:37:03 CST 2006
Scott Balneaves wrote:
> On Wed, Nov 01, 2006 at 08:55:43PM -0600, Mike Pfaiffer wrote:
>> OK. I shot myself in the foot with this one... I'll admit it up front.
>>
>> I did the upgrade from Dapper to Edgy. It went better than most.
>> Suffice it to say I got the GUI back as well as a number of other things
>> which messed up. While tracking down one problem (something wasn't
>> finding files for verification I burned onto a DVD - source or copy I
>> don't know) I figured the problem might have been a library
>> (libdvdread1). I thought I'd uninstall and reinstall. The problem is it
>> took out mplayer. Again I figured an uninstall and reinstall may do the
>> trick. Well now I can't reinstall it or vlc because both depend on this
>> library and the library is unavailable.
>
> Have you re-enabled the universe and multiverse repositories?
Actually I didn't. I just turned them on. Simple fix I didn't know about.
> System -> Administration -> Software Sources.
Works in KDE too. The path is System -> Software Source.
> Scott
>
Thanks.
Later
Mike
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