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ubuntu-restricted-extras package

  1. Bug #231098
  2. Comment #12

Comment 12 for bug 231098

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Gavin Hamill (gdh) wrote :

Confirmed. Installed hardy release ISO on a fresh VirtualBox instance:

gdh@virtualbox-hardy:~$ apt-cache depends ubuntu-restricted-extras
ubuntu-restricted-extras
  Recommends: flashplugin-nonfree
  Recommends: gstreamer0.10-ffmpeg
  Recommends: gstreamer0.10-pitfdll
  Recommends: gstreamer0.10-plugins-bad
  Recommends: gstreamer0.10-plugins-bad-multiverse
  Recommends: gstreamer0.10-plugins-ugly
  Recommends: gstreamer0.10-plugins-ugly-multiverse
  Recommends: icedtea-gcjwebplugin
  Recommends: libdvdread3
  Recommends: liblame0
  Recommends: msttcorefonts
    ttf-liberation
  Recommends: unrar

[enable hardy-proposed in Software Sources and Reload]

gdh@virtualbox-hardy:~$ apt-cache depends ubuntu-restricted-extras
ubuntu-restricted-extras
  Recommends: flashplugin-nonfree
  Recommends: gstreamer0.10-ffmpeg
  Recommends: gstreamer0.10-pitfdll
  Recommends: gstreamer0.10-plugins-bad
  Recommends: gstreamer0.10-plugins-bad-multiverse
  Recommends: gstreamer0.10-plugins-ugly
  Recommends: gstreamer0.10-plugins-ugly-multiverse
  Recommends: libdvdread3
  Recommends: liblame0
  Recommends: msttcorefonts
    ttf-liberation
  Recommends: sun-java6-plugin
  Recommends: unrar

tapping 'restricted' into Add/Remove software (after selecting 'all available applications') installs ubuntu-restricted-extras including Sun's JRE from multiverse. Firefox is immediately able to open Java applets and shows Sun branding whilst loading.