Open kimariterikishi opened 1 year ago
Note In the meantime, a Linux Mint user I know reported me that after he had installed the ubuntu-restricted-extras package, and then the mint-meta-codecs package installed without any problems. He used a live system for the test.
This should be a temporary issue - Ubuntu is using a new update system - the slowly roll updates out to people - some people have no issues installing codecs, others have the same issue as you. Tomorrow you may be in the update group and it'll work. Pretty frustrating but it should clear up in a day or two on its own.
I downloaded Linux Mint 21 with the Cinnamon desktop environment from here: https://mirror.karneval.cz/pub/linux/linuxmint/iso/stable/21/
I tested it in Virtualbox. The installer crashes when searching for mirrors... I tried several times, always with the above result. So I turned off the network in Virtualbox while installing Linux Mint 21. So the installation completed. To be fair, I also turned off the installation of the Multimedia codecs (installer), but I did that for the test later.
I updated the system (in terminal) on the first boot after installation:
sudo apt-get update
sudo apt-get upgrade
System reboot...
Using the Update Manager, I installed the available kernel update.
System reboot...
I switched to a faster mirror...
( Sorry, some of the output will be in Hungarian language )
Multimedia codecs (install)
Available at
Attempt to install the package
Dependencies
And there it is..., just not the one selected.
Installation
sudo apt-get install libgstreamer-plugins-bad1.0-0=1.20.1-1ubuntu2
or
sudo apt-get install libgstreamer-plugins-bad1.0-0=1.20.3-0ubuntu1
... none of these are good for installing mint-meta-codecs. If one is installed, the other is missing, and vice versa.
The solution seems to be to use aptitude (I'll abbreviate as much as possible).
Check
System check
sudo apt-get update
and
Still not good. The solution may again be aptitude.
sudo aptitude update
Check
and
However, the error reporting application is showing problems (while the Update Manager is already fine).
Screenshots:
https://postimg.cc/4KPPVNww https://postimg.cc/8JCHHQ0G
After system reboot when I install the mint-meta-codecs package package, there is no indication of the same, but there is for the language package.
Message
Check
Attempt to install the package
Aptitude again
All this is not enough, we need more here...
Screenshots:
https://postimg.cc/t7Yknb6t https://postimg.cc/S2tG1TBM https://postimg.cc/wRyQC5zb
History
Please, look at the problems.