{"id":2469,"date":"2013-10-18T05:28:22","date_gmt":"2013-10-18T09:28:22","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.linuxmint.com\/?p=2469"},"modified":"2013-10-18T05:28:22","modified_gmt":"2013-10-18T09:28:22","slug":"farewell-medibuntu","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.linuxmint.com\/?p=2469","title":{"rendered":"Farewell Medibuntu"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The Medibuntu repository was discontinued and is no longer available.<\/p>\n<p>As a consequence, you might see error messages in the Update Manager, Package Manager and Software Manager.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/blog.linuxmint.com\/upload\/2013\/10\/medibuntu.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter  wp-image-2470\" title=\"medibuntu\" src=\"http:\/\/blog.linuxmint.com\/upload\/2013\/10\/medibuntu.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"401\" height=\"293\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>The solution is to remove Medibuntu from your list of repositories:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Open a terminal<\/li>\n<li>Type <strong>gksu gedit \/etc\/apt\/sources.list<\/strong> to edit the list of repositories (replace &#8220;gedit&#8221; with &#8220;pluma&#8221; if you are running MATE, or with &#8220;kate&#8221; if you are running KDE)<\/li>\n<li>Remove any line which contains &#8220;medibuntu&#8221; in it and save the file<\/li>\n<li>Type <strong>apt update<\/strong> in the terminal<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Notes:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>If you are running Linux Mint 15 you&#8217;ve nothing to do (Medibuntu isn&#8217;t used in Mint 15)<\/li>\n<li>If you are running the KDE edition, sources might not be present in \/etc\/apt\/sources.list but in another file in the \/etc\/apt\/sources.list.d\/ directory instead<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Medibuntu provided us with additional codecs since 2006. It&#8217;s sad to see them go and we wish their maintainers the best of luck for the future.<\/p>\n<p>In Linux Mint 16 onwards libdvdcss2 (which allows us to watch DVDs) will be provided via a new Linux Mint repository at http:\/\/extra.linuxmint.com.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Medibuntu repository was discontinued and is no longer available. As a consequence, you might see error messages in the Update Manager, Package Manager and Software Manager. The solution is to remove Medibuntu from your list of repositories: Open a terminal Type gksu gedit \/etc\/apt\/sources.list to edit the list of repositories (replace &#8220;gedit&#8221; with &#8220;pluma&#8221; [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2469","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-main-topics"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.linuxmint.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2469","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.linuxmint.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.linuxmint.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.linuxmint.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.linuxmint.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=2469"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/blog.linuxmint.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2469\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2471,"href":"https:\/\/blog.linuxmint.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2469\/revisions\/2471"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.linuxmint.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2469"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.linuxmint.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2469"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.linuxmint.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2469"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}