Comments on: How to: Linux Play DivX .avi video codec file

By: dc

dc — Tue, 19 Jul 2011 20:27:18 +0000

see unbuntu’s advice above:
>> use sudo apt-get install vlc

By: paolo guggia

paolo guggia — Mon, 13 Jun 2011 17:03:45 +0000

VNC install doesn’t work – when running ‘sudo apt-get vlc’ I get an error (E: Invalid operation vlc)

By: Zach

Zach — Mon, 16 May 2011 16:24:07 +0000

sudo gives a regular user account super/root rights. You put sudo in the front of your command when it requires you to read or write system files that you’re regular account is not a owner/group member of.

By: jamble

jamble — Sun, 15 May 2011 07:29:41 +0000

Err..sudo does not take the root password.

By: assemov

assemov — Sun, 10 Apr 2011 04:51:26 +0000

good morning every one !!!

could any one plz tell me how to get direct download to vlc player then direct command to install it on suse linux with out problems so i can watch my flv,mpeg files..etc that are only working on windows …i do really appreciate your efforts
thanks

By: Anshul

Anshul — Mon, 21 Feb 2011 13:27:08 +0000

How to play mp3, .avi, .3gp, .mpeg, .dob, and .flv files in ubuntu and fedora.
How to install other software like vlc player, powr dvd on ubuntu and fedora
Please reply

By: piggygrunts

piggygrunts — Wed, 06 Oct 2010 11:46:58 +0000

Many thanks for your instructions for installing DIV X, they worked perfectly with Xubuntu and VLC Player.

By: mossup

mossup — Sat, 06 Feb 2010 05:01:24 +0000

I followed the instructions to the letter, divx is definitely installed but still cannot play files either on vlc, xine or gstreamer… annnnnnd vlc does not appear to have any codecs at all installed for use…weird…

By: Peter

Peter — Fri, 23 Oct 2009 10:13:50 +0000

I’m a Mac user who is just now venturing into Linux.
I too was having a problem with the install.
Pressing “Q” worked. Thank you!

But how was a newbie supposed to know that I needed to press “Q”?
That’s not very intuitive.

Peter

By: Punki

Punki — Sun, 11 Oct 2009 06:27:15 +0000

Hi,
during apt-get update i recieved the following error:

pc000113:/tmp/divx611-20060201-gcc4.0.1 # apt-get update
Ign http://ftp-1.gwdg.de update/11.1 repomd.xml
Get:1 http://ftp-1.gwdg.de 11.1/repo/oss/suse repomd.xml [951B]
Fetched 951B in 0s (6395B/s)
Err http://ftp-1.gwdg.de update/11.1/ primary.xml
  404 Not Found
Err http://ftp-1.gwdg.de update/11.1/ filelists.xml
  404 Not Found
Hit http://ftp-1.gwdg.de 11.1/repo/oss/suse/ primary.xml
Hit http://ftp-1.gwdg.de 11.1/repo/oss/suse/ filelists.xml
Failed to fetch http://ftp-1.gwdg.de/pub/suse/i386/update/11.1/repodata/primary.xml  404 Not Found
Failed to fetch http://ftp-1.gwdg.de/pub/suse/i386/update/11.1/repodata/filelists.xml  404 Not Found
Reading Package Lists... Error!
E: Dynamic MMap ran out of room
E: Error occured while processing transmission-gtk (NewVersion1)
E: Problem with MergeList /var/lib/apt/lists/ftp-1.gwdg.de_pub_opensuse_distribution_11.1_repo_oss_suse_repodata_primary.xml
E: The package lists or status file could not be parsed or opened.

thx

By: unbuntu

unbuntu — Thu, 17 Sep 2009 01:32:53 +0000

mandervian – use sudo apt-get install vlc

By: mandervain

mandervain — Fri, 14 Aug 2009 23:12:50 +0000

Hello!
I’ve got also kubuntu and line : sudo apt-get vlc doesn’t works…
what might be the problem and how to fix it?
thx

By: Mark Bellis

Mark Bellis — Tue, 07 Apr 2009 21:14:16 +0000

Rocky – “Press Q after reading agreement, please type yes to install codes.”
Thanks – this works on the Aspire One’s Linux.

By: Rocky

Rocky — Tue, 31 Mar 2009 11:43:41 +0000

I installed was able to run the installation file for divx code on fedora 10 but i open some sort of agreement text and didnt move further could anyone guide me what to do next.

By: fakesmeksidi

fakesmeksidi — Sat, 28 Mar 2009 18:00:20 +0000

if sudo doesn’t work try sudo su.it’s for ubuntu and some other versions. it will ask you your password and after you submit it it will change u to superuser. after you do whatever u want enter exit to became a regular user again.

By: daemonas

daemonas — Fri, 27 Feb 2009 09:24:33 +0000

@jimmyjiggle
m8 suppose you’ve born with linux pre installed inside your brain…
give a chance to 0thers jump into Linux, is what Linux forums standing for.
If you do not want to be helpful, maybe windows is a better place for u.
After all there has not to be any answer , simply cause everything is locked ;-)

By: jimmyjiggle

jimmyjiggle — Wed, 25 Feb 2009 09:05:51 +0000

man sudo
vi /etc/sudoers
if you can’t figure that out use windows

By: RTH

RTH — Tue, 30 Dec 2008 15:58:12 +0000

In order to use sudo you must have an entry in /etc/sudoers file.
Usually in the following format:
username ALL=(ALL) ALL

When using sudo command you will need to provide your own username password.

If sudo has not been setup you need to become a root user (just type: su and provide root password) and then add the following line into /etc/sudoers file. After that sudo should work.

By: sami

sami — Sun, 14 Dec 2008 13:20:43 +0000

sudo not working….
cannot find command
Help

By: FredAgu

FredAgu — Sat, 13 Dec 2008 13:41:22 +0000

Me too have the password problem as karthik and Adam
I think contents.dat is separately password protected.

Brian pls chk ur help files to know correct usage of ‘sudo’ command
{ sudo **ur extracted file path**/install.sh}
to goto root type sodo -i at terminal and follow the steps above