Media player for Linux Lite

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Howdy folks,

A mate of mine purchased an Acer Aspire 1 (netbook) which came with Linux Lite v1.0.9.E

He is looking for a media player that can play his AVI, mpegs, mp4 etc.

I have never used Linux (Yes, tear me apart for my ignorance :o )

Could someone please point me in the right direction as to where I may obtain a media player and codecs to help him run his movies, iPod stuff etc.

Thanks,
J
 
May I suggest that he does backup of Linux Lite v1.0.9.E (just in case) and switches to Ubuntu. That is what http://onelinux.org/ suggests - switch to Ubuntu or Fedora

https://help.ubuntu.com/community/AspireOne
https://help.ubuntu.com/community/AspireOne110L

Once when it runs media players for anything are on medibuntu. How to add medibuntu repository is explained here:

https://help.ubuntu.com/community/Medibuntu

Now missing players and codecses may be installed using Synaptec.
I never had Aspire One and I never installed Ubuntu on it, but according to help files should be possible.
 
Thanks for the response.

The problem is that this poor chap has zero, nada, zip skills on any OS (His computer literacy extends to basic excel and lotus notes for mailing purposes)
 
Jase said:
Thanks for the response.

The problem is that this poor chap has zero, nada, zip skills on any OS (His computer literacy extends to basic excel and lotus notes for mailing purposes)
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I installed VLC on mine and it's been playing pretty much everything I've thrown at it so far.

EDIT - and I had major hassles with Ubuntu on it - ended up going back to the original OS.
 
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tell him to type

sudo apt-get install vlc

Not sure if linux lite uses apt-get.. but it should. If it doesnt download VLC off their website.
 
Thanks! Got VLC lying around somewhere, just couldn't get it to install. Will try the link you posted.
 
You can use either VLC or Xine. Both are really good and play just about anything.
 
Jase said:
Thanks! Got VLC lying around somewhere, just couldn't get it to install. Will try the link you posted.
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In case you don't know (I didn't) to get to the terminal press alt+f2 and enter terminal into the field.

They didn't go out of their way to make it easy to do much.
 
Okay, a small problem. We cannot connect the netbook to the internet (we are at work for the next 27odd days). Is there a way I can download the required files, copy them onto the netbook and run them from there?

Soz for all the questions but as far as Linux goes we are clueless...
 
Dependancy hell beckons.
You could ask another aspire linux lite user to install VLC and then find the local repo cache files, copy those to disk and then add disk as instalation source. You might have to force the installation, it might work.
This method workes very well on *ubuntu, if you need to update many PC's that are not net connected from one PC that is.
 
trenton said:
Dependancy hell beckons.
You could ask another aspire linux lite user to install VLC and then find the local repo cache files, copy those to disk and then add disk as instalation source. You might have to force the installation, it might work.
This method workes very well on *ubuntu, if you need to update many PC's that are not net connected from one PC that is.
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That is correct, yes. To install it you do as follows:
1) copy file(s) to hard drive
2) Double click (for Gnome) or click (KDE) and open with Adept installer (I think it's called that, not going to check now). Password popup comes up, type in sudo password. Install.
 
Jase said:
Okay, a small problem. We cannot connect the netbook to the internet (we are at work for the next 27odd days). Is there a way I can download the required files, copy them onto the netbook and run them from there?

Soz for all the questions but as far as Linux goes we are clueless...
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This shows which files are required. unfortunately as the netbook is not connected to the net the actual site will nto be able to help you determine which files you have. This then leaves the long route where in a terminal you will need to type:

# locate <required file>

eg

# locate libstdc++.so.6(GLIBCXX_3.4)

if the file is on the system, locate will return its location. if the file is not on the system then locate will return nothing. Then you will have to do sudo yum provides <required file> to find out which package you will need to get to get the required file.
 
Eish! :eek: Way too confusing and a lot of work. Going to see if we can get the netbook connected to the net somehow. :o
 
Jase said:
Eish! :eek: Way too confusing and a lot of work. Going to see if we can get the netbook connected to the net somehow. :o
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How are you connected at the moment?
 
Remote server ===> Satellite that routes through head office in Scotland. IT department in Germany (WE see the IT guys twice a year or so).
 
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