Installing w32codecs

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Installing w32codecs (Ubuntu Feisty)

You might have to take the following steps to install the w32codecs since the w32codecs package is not available from the Ubuntu repositories due to licensing and legal issues.

   gedit /etc/apt/sources.list

Add these two lines to the file

   deb http://medibuntu.sos-sts.com/repo/ feisty free non-free
   deb-src http://medibuntu.sos-sts.com/repo/ feisty free non-free

Copy the key

   wget -q http://packages.medibuntu.org/medibuntu-key.gpg -O- ¦ sudo apt-key add -

Update the source list

   sudo apt-get update

Finally,

   sudo apt-get install w32codecs