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Ubuntu-ja 8.04 Desktop

Gave up on installing Ubuntu Studio on my notebook, and installed Ubuntu-ja 8.04 Desktop. Installed fine, but updating at http://jp.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/dists/hardy failed. Hopefully it willl be fixed soon.

Following the Ubuntu Documentation at https://help.ubuntu.com/community/RestrictedFormats,

sudo apt-get install ubuntu-restricted-extras

for multimedia codecs. Actually, ran Accessing to http://jp.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/dists/hardy/ still causes trouble, but others look OK... Actually, ran Application->Add/Remove, search ubuntu-restricted... Oops, got an warning dialog!

Well, changed the repository server to Main, and updating is now complete! Can run synaptic to install ubuntu-restricted-extras, too! Will see if there'll be any problems in installing it. After finishing downloading, on installing process, a diagram shows up as

At this moment, i'm not going to care for the font issues.

Well well, found a better way. Ran システム管理→日本語版セットアップ・・ヘルパー. Installed the following:

Well, well, well, got anolther dialog box saying it couldn't install the packages because of broken something

OK, ok, let me try to install them one by one...
Installing xpdf-japanese and poppler-data was successful.

Installing adobereader-jpn and adobereader-jpn-ipamonafont gave me another dialog:
Turns up it's a version problem At this moment,1.1.1+1.0.8-0ubuntu0ja1 is installed whereas the dependant package was specified as 1.1.1+1.0.4-0ubuntu0ja1. Should downgrade? Don't have time to worry about it right now. Just install it! No errors. Let it be

Couldn't find packages realplayer, jd and skype on Synaptic.

The instructions at http://gtd.studiomohawk.com/archives/218 seems useful, too. Since ubuntu-restricted-extras is already installed, instead of doing

apt-get install gstreamer0.10-plugins-ugly-multiverse gstreamer0.10-plugins-bad-multiverse gstreamer0.10-plugins-bad gstreamer0.10-plugins-ugly gstreamer0.10-ffmpeg libxine1-ffmpeg libdvdread3

only

apt-get install libxine1-ffmpeg

was necessary. Right now, the network download is very very sluggish... frustrating. Anyhow, the installation is complete.

Well, well, well, well...after all of these frantic efforts, I found the Firefox browser still couldn't play wmv streams Oh, it was the stream from NHK. WMA Streams on YBC (http://www.ybc.co.jp) was playable So, is it a codec problem on NHK's case? Don't have time right now to check what codec it uses. It did play Flash movies.