On Sunday 01 November 2009 18:33:46 Saad M Niamatullah wrote: > If the uec codec pack is not maintained anymore, all is not lost. > Ubuntu provides a package (well actually a meta-package), called > ubuntu-restricted-extras. You can download it, then go to the > /var/cache/apt/archives/ folder to get the downloaded .deb packages. > Then you can copy it to a flash disk(commonly known as a "pen drive"). > Then distribute it to the pc's which are not connected to the > internet.
This is what UEC is, a collection package of codecs... Since people individually downloads and copies them to different pc, a common package with some script was created so it would be double click and voila situation. Packaged were shared in one place so not everyone has to download or copy those codecs individually. -- Ubuntu Bangladesh | http://ubuntu-bd.org ubuntu-bd@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-bd
