Ubuntu can play the most popular non-free media formats, including DVD, MP3, Quicktime, Windows Media, and more by following the instructions below:
For Ubuntu 8.04/7.10, open the terminal, and execute the following command:
#sudo apt-get install ubuntu-restricted-extras
Another way is using Synaptic:
- Go to Applications → Add/Remove…
- Set Show: to All available applications
- Search for ubuntu-restricted-extras and install it. Note that there is also xubuntu-restricted-extras (for Xubuntu) and kubuntu-restricted-extras (for Kubuntu.)
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In order to enable the user-specific public_html directory open up a terminal and switch to the apache module config directory:
cd /etc/apache2/mods-enabled
If you list all the files inside this directory you’ll notice that all of them are actually symbolic links. To enable mod_userdir, which is the module you’re interested in, you’ll have to create two symlinks to the relevant files:
sudo ln -s ../mods-available/userdir.load
sudo ln -s ../mods-available/userdir.conf
All done! Now restart Apache via:
sudo apache2ctl restart
We can now access the web applications stored in our /home/username/public_html directory via http://localhost/~username/
