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browser wont open video links, aaaaaand...

#1 Post by Burt »

hi, i'm relatively new to linux (having used fedora 11 for a month prior to a debian lenny install yesterday), so i guess i'm almost as newby as they come. my problem is that when i try to watch films from sites such as watch-movies for example using iceweasel, whenever i click on a link that would normally open another window with said video playing, nothing happens whatsoever. any suggestions?

heres the aaaaaand...ive only had lenny installed a day and it seems ive broken gnome-system-monitor, i cant start it from the gnome menu or the terminal. whenever i try to use it via terminal i get the following error message-

** (gnome-system-monitor:4153): WARNING **: SELinux was found but is not enabled.

terminate called after throwing an instance of 'Glib::FileError'
Aborted

any suggestions here also?

any help would be greatly appreciated :)

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#2 Post by cnoyes »

First, you need to update your sources.list file:

As root:

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gedit /etc/apt/sources.list
Make sure this line is in there:

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deb http://ftp.us.debian.org/debian/ lenny main contrib non-free
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#3 Post by Burt »

i have 'deb http://ftp.gb.debian.org/debian/ lenny main contrib non-free' not the us one.

deb http://ftp.gb.debian.org/debian/ lenny main non-free contrib
deb-src http://ftp.gb.debian.org/debian/ lenny main non-free contrib

deb http://security.debian.org/ lenny/updates main contrib non-free
deb-src http://security.debian.org/ lenny/updates main contrib non-free #Added by software-properties
deb-src http://ftp.gb.debian.org/debian/ lenny/updates main contrib non-free #Added by software-properties
deb-src http://ftp.gb.debian.org/debian/ lenny/updates main contrib non-free #Added by software-properties
deb-src http://ftp.gb.debian.org/debian/ lenny/updates main contrib non-free

deb http://volatile.debian.org/debian-volatile lenny/volatile main contrib
deb http://ftp.gb.debian.org/debian/ lenny non-free contrib main
deb-src http://ftp.gb.debian.org/debian/ lenny non-free contrib main #Added by software-properties
deb http://ftp.gb.debian.org/debian/ lenny main contrib non-free
deb-src http://ftp.gb.debian.org/debian/ lenny main contrib non-free #Added by software-properties
deb http://ftp.gb.debian.org/debian/ lenny main
deb http://http.us.debian.org/debian/ lenny main contrib non-free
deb-src http://http.us.debian.org/debian/ lenny main contrib non-free #Added by software-properties
deb-src http://volatile.debian.org/debian-volatile lenny/volatile main contrib

can i ask why you mentioned that?

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#4 Post by cnoyes »

You need to also add

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deb http://www.debian-multimedia.org lenny main
you also need the key, which has been packaged here: http://www.debian-multimedia.org/pool/m ... 16_all.deb
just go to the directory where you downloaded it to and(as root)

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dpkg -i debian-multimedia-keyring_2008.10.16_all.deb


after that, make sure you have the following installed(again as root):

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apt-get install w32codecs flashplugin-nonfree gecko-mediaplayer
Let me know how that works out.
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#5 Post by craigevil »

Holy cow batman is all of that in your sources.list?

Try something a little more streamlined.

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##Basic Stable sources.list#
#Stable Use your country code or a mirror closer to you.
deb http://http.us.debian.org/debian/ lenny main contrib non-free
#Stable Sources
#deb-src http://http.us.debian.org/debian/ lenny main contrib non-free
#Security Updates Stable
deb http://security.debian.org/ lenny/updates main contrib non-free

# Debian Volatile http://www.debian.org/volatile/
deb http://volatile.debian.org/debian-volatile lenny/volatile main contrib non-free
#deb http://volatile.debian.org/debian-volatile lenny/volatile-sloppy main contrib non-free

# Debian Stable Backports
# For information visit
# http://www.backports.org/dokuwiki/doku.php?id=instructions
# apt-get install debian-backports-keyring
#deb http://www.backports.org/debian lenny-backports main contrib non-free

#Debian-multimedia.org apt-get install debian-multimedia-keyring
deb http://www.debian-multimedia.org lenny  main 
In order for Iceweasel to open multimedia links you need plugins like totem-mozilla or mozilla-mplayer, vlc-mozilla etc pick one. Probably also need Flash and Java.
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#6 Post by Burt »

thanks for the responses folks :) twas a bit late last night to try those out and im off to work any minute this morning, i'll try when i get back from work later. thanks, once again for the swift reply :)

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#7 Post by Burt »

hi again, tried this as suggested

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 'apt-get install w32codecs flashplugin-nonfree gecko-mediaplayer'

Reading package lists... Done
Building dependency tree       
Reading state information... Done
Package w32codecs is not available, but is referred to by another package.
This may mean that the package is missing, has been obsoleted, or
is only available from another source
E: Package w32codecs has no installation candidate

any ideas?

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#8 Post by aicardi »

Burt wrote:hi again, tried this as suggested

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 'apt-get install w32codecs flashplugin-nonfree gecko-mediaplayer'

Reading package lists... Done
Building dependency tree       
Reading state information... Done
Package w32codecs is not available, but is referred to by another package.
This may mean that the package is missing, has been obsoleted, or
is only available from another source
E: Package w32codecs has no installation candidate

any ideas?
Did you run "apt-get update" (as root) after editing the sources list?
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#9 Post by craigevil »

Burt wrote:hi again, tried this as suggested

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 'apt-get install w32codecs flashplugin-nonfree gecko-mediaplayer'

Reading package lists... Done
Building dependency tree       
Reading state information... Done
Package w32codecs is not available, but is referred to by another package.
This may mean that the package is missing, has been obsoleted, or
is only available from another source
E: Package w32codecs has no installation candidate

any ideas?
Make sure you run aptitude update after changing your sources.list
aptitude install flashplayer-mozilla mozilla-mplayer all of which are in the debian-multimedia.org repo. Or you can install flashplugin-nonfree from backports.org, by doing aptitude -t lenny-backports install flashplugin-nonfree. gecko-mediaplayer is only in testing and unstable not stable.
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#10 Post by cnoyes »

craigevil wrote:gecko-mediaplayer is only in testing and unstable not stable.
Didn't know that, thanks for the info. I have only ever run testing or unstable, so my knowledge of stable is limited to what I think I can infer from unstable.
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#11 Post by Burt »

i hadn't ran apt-get update after editing the sources.list no. thats got things running along smoothly now, got the necessary plugins installed now too, thanks everyone :)
now, to try and get gnome-system-monitor working again haha..

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