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It's in fact based, like so many other players, on Mplayer and it's actually a fork of SMPlayer. Some are better than others, but the basic functions remain the same. We reviewed quite a few media players over the years and we usually found out that most of them are rather decent solutions for this type of job. It's not called Universal for nothing and Linux users should know that this is a serious alternative.

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To install these programs you will usually need to follow the steps below:ġ.UMPlayer or Universal Media Player is a free, open source media player that tries to live up to its name. It's up to you not to run or install blindly any script which catches your attention.

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Since most of the time you will need root privileges to install software this way (not in all cases though), pay attention to where you get your installer from and if it is a trustworthy project or company. bundle, while other programs may come as binaries with no extension, like the installer of the game UrbanTerror, called UrTUpdater.i386. run files, VMWare may offer a file ending in. For example, games like ioQuake3 or Wolfenstein: Enemy Territory are packaged as. These files can have various extensions or no extension at all. Some programs offer an installation script or a binary installation file. Installing Programs with a Shell or Binary Installer (.sh. Open up a terminal with Ctrl+Alt+T and type: Ubuntu 12.04 has version 3.5 installed, but a PPA is available to install the latest version, which is 4.0.

use the apt-repository-add command in a terminal (explained in Part 1).

add PPA lines manually to your sources.list file using a text editor (explained in Part 1).

use USC or Synaptic to add these lines in a comfortable fashion (explained above).

There are several ways to add PPAs to your sources.list file: The advantage of this is that PPAs will usually not break APT, and all packages installed this way fetch the needed dependencies automatically. It is a simple way for various developers to integrate their applications in Ubuntu, or projects like GNOME, KDE or LibreOffice to provide packaged versions of their latest releases which will work with a certain Ubuntu release. You can read more about repositories on the Ubuntu Wiki, here.Ī PPA (Personal Package Archive) is a repository which usually contains software not available in Ubuntu's default repositories, or newer versions of certain applications. Everything after the # character is a comment and will be ignored.

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The first ones are repositories for binary packages (software that you install), while the second ones are repositories to the source code packages. The file /etc/apt/sources.list has lines that start with deb and lines that may start with deb-src. You can search for packages at, or browse packages for all Ubuntu versions here. The same goes for the package ubuntu-restricted-extras, which provides support for decoding various audio and video files, or the package flashplugin-installer, which provides Flash support. Example:Īs you can see, Amarok is located in the universe section, while AcidRip, a program used to rip DVDs, belongs to the multiverse section (although AcidRip itself is open-source, it uses some non-free libraries). You can see which section a program belongs to by typing apt-cache show package_name | grep Section.

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multiverse - contains software that is not free.

universe - contains community-maintained software (not officially supported).

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restricted - contains officially supported software that is not available under a completely free license.

main - contains officially supported software.

Ubuntu has four main repository categories, as follows: Still, this shouldn't worry you since there are PPAs for pretty much all the popular applications out there, allowing you to install the latest versions available. There are a few exceptions from this rule, for example Firefox will always be updated to the latest version. This means that when a new version of a program appears you will have to use a PPA or the backports repositories (explanations on these included in the next chapter). On the other hand, this also has a small drawback: with few exceptions, the applications in the official repositories remain at the same version. When you install an application from the official repositories you don't have to worry about missing libraries or incompatibilities.

All programs in the official repositories are tested and all dependencies needed for them to work are in place. Most of the applications included in the Ubuntu repositories are free, open-source and licensed under a permissive license like the GPL. Repositories are online archives which contain programs that can be installing using the package manager.