[RndTbl] Ubuntu newbie question

[Scott Balneaves]

On Wed, Nov 01, 2006 at 08:55:43PM -0600, Mike Pfaiffer wrote:
>    OK. I shot myself in the foot with this one... I'll admit it up front.
> 
>    I did the upgrade from Dapper to Edgy. It went better than most. 
> Suffice it to say I got the GUI back as well as a number of other things 
> which messed up. While tracking down one problem (something wasn't 
> finding files for  verification I burned onto a DVD - source or copy I 
> don't know) I figured the problem might have been a library 
> (libdvdread1). I thought I'd uninstall and reinstall. The problem is it 
> took out mplayer. Again I figured an uninstall and reinstall may do the 
> trick. Well now I can't reinstall it or vlc because both depend on this 
> library and the library is unavailable.

Have you re-enabled the universe and multiverse repositories?

System -> Administration -> Software Sources.

Scott

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