Installing Ubuntu Restricted Extras

Usually Ubuntu doesn't play Mp3 files and some other files. As the codecs of these files are copyrighted Ubuntu can not add these in the installation media illegally. No problem. Here is way to install Ubuntu Restricted Extras very easily.

Restricted Extras

The Ubuntu Restricted Extras will install Adobe Flash Player, a set of Microsoft Fonts (msttcorefonts), multimedia codecs (w32codecs or w64codecs), mp3-compatible encoding (lame), FFMpeg, extra Gstreamer codecs, the package for DVD decoding (libdvdread4, but see below for info on libdvdcss2), the unrar archiver, odbc, and cabextract. It also installs multiple "stripped" codecs and avutils (libavcodec-unstripped-52 and libavutil-unstripped-49). To install restricted extras simply run the terminal by pressing Ctrl+Altr+T and run following command.

sudo apt-get install ubuntu-restricted-extras

Note: Installation only works completely and properly when done from the command-line Terminal. The entire package will not usually install completely from within a Package Manager.

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