Adept Manager - Whats going on

[aussie.ian]

I'm wondering if I'm doing something wrong.
I used Adept to install Mplayer and all I ended up with is kmplayer-base and kmplayer-plugins.
For the install I opened Adept and in the search bar typed, mplayer, when it came up I selected all the items I wanted and clicked fetch updates but all that was installed is the above. Now when I try to install mplayer all that comes up is whats already there.
Could someone please help with this.

Trying to install w32codecs.
wget -c http://www.debian-multimedia.org/poo...1-0.0_i386.deb
I've tried using this several times over the last week and it just times out continually, it doesn't matter how long I leave it for it just keeps timing out over and over.
Are there any Australian repos I can add to Apt to try and overcome these issues.

[lowey23]

Re: Adept Manager - Whats going on

G'day, aussie.ian, welcome to Kubuntu

I had a look at Adept and put kmplayer in the search line. It came up with 4 packages to install - Kmplayer, Kmplayer-base, Kmplayer-doc and Kmplayer-konq-plugins. I have all of these installed and km player works perfectly.

To install the necessary codecs to play mp3's etc, have a look at this site :-

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

It explains how to obtain them in plain language that even us Aussies can understand. You might like to look at this site as well :-

http://www.psychocats.net/ubuntu/index.php

The site has been put together by aysiu, one of the many very helpful people on these forums. You will find a lot of information to get you going with Kubuntu. Enjoy.

Cheers

Lowey

[aussie.ian]

Re: Adept Manager - Whats going on

I had a look at Adept and put kmplayer in the search line. It came up with 4 packages to install - Kmplayer, Kmplayer-base, Kmplayer-doc and Kmplayer-konq-plugins. I have all of these installed and km player works perfectly

When I first put mplayer into Adept the same thing came up but it only installed the 2 mentioned. Now when I put it in they are the only 2 that come up.

To install the necessary codecs to play mp3's etc, have a look at this site :-

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

That's where I got the link I was trying to use, it just times out constantly. I left it for 2 hours and it timed out 36 times (I counted them back)

I have all available repos enabled I think, I just can't install or update anything.

deb http://au.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/ dapper main restricted
deb-src http://au.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/ dapper main restricted

## Major bug fix updates produced after the final release of the
## distribution.
deb http://au.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/ dapper-updates main restricted                   deb-src http://au.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/ dapper-updates main restricted

## Uncomment the following two lines to add software from the 'universe'
## repository.
## N.B. software from this repository is ENTIRELY UNSUPPORTED by the Ubuntu
## team, and may not be under a free licence. Please satisfy yourself as to
## your rights to use the software. Also, please note that software in
## universe WILL NOT receive any review or updates from the Ubuntu security
## team.
deb http://au.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/ dapper universe
deb-src http://au.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/ dapper universe

## Uncomment the following two lines to add software from the 'backports'
## repository.
## N.B. software from this repository may not have been tested as
## extensively as that contained in the main release, although it includes
## newer versions of some applications which may provide useful features.
## Also, please note that software in backports WILL NOT receive any review
## or updates from the Ubuntu security team.
deb http://au.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/ dapper-backports main restricted universe multiverse
deb-src http://au.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/ dapper-backports main restricted universe multiverse

deb http://archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu dapper multiverse
deb-src http://archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu dapper multiverse
deb http://security.ubuntu.com/ubuntu dapper-security main
deb-src http://security.ubuntu.com/ubuntu dapper-security main
deb http://security.ubuntu.com/ubuntu dapper-security universe
deb-src http://security.ubuntu.com/ubuntu dapper-security universe
deb http://archive.canonical.com/ubuntu dapper-commercial main
deb http://packages.freecontrib.org/plf/ dapper free non-free
deb-src http://packages.freecontrib.org/plf/ dapper free non-free

When I open Adept and click "fetch updates", it takes 10 to 15 mins and just comes back with "no updates available". When I select any of the available tags and drop[ them in they all say "installed" - "no change.

I just ran "apt-get update" and the following was returned.
(this is only part of the readout as it was quite long)
Err http://security.ubuntu.com dapper-security/main Packages
  Sub-process bzip2 returned an error code (2)
Get:19 http://security.ubuntu.com dapper-security/universe Packages [10.6kB]
Get:20 http://security.ubuntu.com dapper-security/universe Sources [1290B]
Get:21 http://archive.ubuntu.com dapper/multiverse Sources [46.6kB]
Get:22 http://archive.ubuntu.com dapper/multiverse Packages [95.2kB]
Get:23 http://archive.ubuntu.com dapper/multiverse Sources [46.6kB]
90% [21 Sources bzip2 0] [Waiting for headers] [23 Sources 472/46.6kB 1%]
bzip2: Compressed file ends unexpectedly;
        perhaps it is corrupted?  *Possible* reason follows.
bzip2: Inappropriate ioctl for device
        Input file = (stdin), output file = (stdout)

It is possible that the compressed file(s) have become corrupted.
You can use the -tvv option to test integrity of such files.

You can use the `bzip2recover' program to attempt to recover
data from undamaged sections of corrupted files.

Err http://archive.ubuntu.com dapper/multiverse Sources
  Sub-process bzip2 returned an error code (2)
90% [22 Packages bzip2 0] [Waiting for headers] [23 Sources 472/46.6kB 1%]bzip2: (stdin) is not a bzip2 file.


W: You may want to run apt-get update to correct these problems
E: Some index files failed to download, they have been ignored, or old ones used instead.

There is something wrong here somewhere, I just don't know what it is or where to look.
Sorry for the length of this post but I wanted to include as much info as possible.

[lowey23]

Re: Adept Manager - Whats going on

Perhaps try taking the au part out of the repositories and just have

deb http://archive/ubuntu etcetc.

Maybe there is a problem with the Australian mirrors. I've never used them, myself, have always had a great run with the standard ones. Don't forget to update and upgrade when you've finished.

For your first problem, try kmplayer, not mplayer if you are using KDE.

Cheers

Lowey

[aussie.ian]

Re: Adept Manager - Whats going on

Perhaps try taking the au part out of the repositories and just have

deb http://archive/ubuntu etcetc.

Already tried that and all servers just timed out. Will try again and later tonight and see if time of day has anything to do with it.
(local phone exchange is very busy, small and about 20k from home)

For your first problem, try kmplayer, not mplayer if you are using KDE.

I have tried both, it doesn't seem to make a difference. (might be related to same as above - not connecting to servers)