The aim of this page is to consolidate the various AMD64-related pages in one place in the hope that it is useful for fellow AMD64 users. Most of the general information will be linked from here like ../AMD64/PageName.

Firefox and Plug-ins

The following technique is a painless way to integrate proprietary 32 bit binary plugins into your Ubuntu Feisty AMD64 bit installation. It is accomplished without the complexity of establishing a 32 bit chroot environment and includes the Java 1.6, Mplayer and Adobe Acrobat Reader plug-ins.

[:AMD64/FirefoxAndPlugins: FirefoxAndPlugins]

Multimedia and Codecs

W64codecs - W32codecs Replacement Package

Support for WMV, RealMedia and other formats can be found in the w64codecs package (w32codecs for 32-bit Ubuntu). However, this package is not available in the Ubuntu repositories for legal reasons but can be obtained from the Medibuntu repositories.

First you need to add the Medibuntu GPG key to your system, add the repositores to your sources.list file and update your available package lists:

wget -q http://medibuntu.sos-sts.com/repo/medibuntu-key.gpg -O- | sudo apt-key add -
sudo wget http://medibuntu.sos-sts.com/sources.list.d/feisty.list -O /etc/apt/sources.list.d/medibuntu.list
sudo aptitude update

Now you can install w64codecs:

sudo aptitude install w64codecs

Other Codecs and Software

There are a few other packages which will make your mulitmedia experience on Ubuntu much more satisifying. To install these codecs and additional software, simply update your package list as decribed above (for W64codecs) and execute the following command in a terminal:

sudo aptitude install totem-xine libdvdcss2 acidrip brasero  gstreamer0.10-ffmpeg gstreamer0.10-plugins-bad gstreamer0.10-plugins-bad-multiverse gstreamer0.10-plugins-ugly gstreamer0.10-plugins-ugly-multiverse banshee libxine-extracodecs

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