Comment 16 for bug 511632

Hi ,

Unfortunately it's the midi package that I want . I want to be able to
play and convert midi to other formats . I have installed both sound
recorder and sound converter , and it requires the bad plugins .

PAX , John.

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From: Onkar Shinde <email address hidden>
To: <email address hidden>
Sent: Mon, 25 January, 2010 3:59:44
Subject: [Bug 511632] Re: Cannot download gstreamer0.10-plugins-bad

@Draycen,

gstreamer0.10-plugins-bad* package do not depend on ubuntu-restricted-
extras in any way. ubuntu-restricted-extras is a meta package which
pulls lot of gstreamer plugin packages as well as Sun JRE package.

@John,
gstreamer0.10-plugins-bad has a midi plugin which needs freepats package to work properly. So when you try to install gstreamer0.10-plugins-bad the freepats package is alo installed. The freepats package is huge in size (29 MB). This might be the reason the download appeared to be stuck at 5%. You can bypass the installation of freepats package when installing gstreamer package in following way.
In Synaptic go to Preferences -> General -> Marking Changes. There is a checkbox 'Consider recommended packages as dependencies'. Disable this checkbox and then try to install gstreamer0.10-plugins-bad package.

** Package changed: gst-plugins-bad-multiverse0.10 (Ubuntu) => gst-
plugins-bad0.10 (Ubuntu)

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Cannot download gstreamer0.10-plugins-bad
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Status in “gst-plugins-bad0.10” package in Ubuntu: Incomplete

Bug description:
Binary package hint: gstreamer0.10-plugins-bad

When trying to download the gstreamer0.10-plugins-bad package ("GStreamer plugins for mms, wavpack, quicktime, musepack" in the Software Center), the package is unable to be downloaded. This problem occurs in the Software Center, Synaptic, and when attempting to install through the terminal. Each time, the program sits for a long time attempting to download the package, but eventually times out.

Switching mirror servers in Software Sources (and running 'sudo apt-get update' afterwards) has not solved the problem. The Software Center and Synaptic have had no trouble downloading and installing any other packages.

ProblemType: Bug
Architecture: i386
Date: Sat Jan 23 17:23:24 2010
DistroRelease: Ubuntu 9.10
InstallationMedia: Ubuntu 9.10 "Karmic Koala" - Release i386 (20091028.5)
Package: software-center 1.0.2
PackageArchitecture: all
ProcEnviron:
 LANG=en_US.UTF-8
 SHELL=/bin/bash
ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 2.6.31-17.54-generic
SourcePackage: software-center
Uname: Linux 2.6.31-17-generic i686

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