About ubuntu-restricted-extras on Ubuntu 14.04

Question

Oxideqt-codecs: Wanting to install ubuntu-restricted-extras package from the Software Center I get a warning that says to install that package must uninstall this other appears. Then in a terminal I ran this command: apt-get remove oxideqt-codecs. Oxideqt-codecs-extra: When you call this a new package is installed. Then I went to try to install ubuntu-restricted-extras again from the Software Center and this time if installed without noticing anything.

I want to ask:

1. Are there negative consequences to uninstall the package oxideqt-codecs to install ubuntu-restricted-extras?

Two. Why this happens in Ubuntu 14.04 and not Ubuntu 12.04?

^{Originally in Spanish, translated through Google translate.}

Solution

oxideqt-codecs-extra would of been installed as it is recomended by ubuntu-restricted-addons, which in turn is depended on by ubuntu-restricted-extras.

For more details on oxideqt-codecs-extra, you can run apt-cache show oxideqt-codecs-extra. This gives the following with English set as the locale:

...
Replaces: liboxideqtcore0 (<< 1.0.0~bzr488), oxideqt-codecs
Depends: libc6 (>= 2.7), libgcc1 (>= 1:4.1.1)
Conflicts: oxideqt-codecs
Breaks: liboxideqtcore0 (<< 1.0.0~bzr488)
Filename: pool/main/o/oxide-qt/oxideqt-codecs-extra_1.0.0~bzr501-0ubuntu2_i386.deb
...
Description-en: Web browser engine library for Qt (codecs)
 Oxide is a web browser engine library based on Google Chromium, that makes
 it easy to embed web content in your Qt application
 .
 This package provides some media codecs needed for the HTML5 <audio> and
 <video> tags. Included are the Theora, Vorbis, Opus, VP8, VP9, MP3, AAC
 and H.264 codecs
...

The important bit is Conflicts: oxideqt-codecs - when it is checked before it it installed, all packages that conflicted with it are removed. So the oxideqt-codecs package would be removed before theoxideqt-codecs-extra package is installed so they do not conflict.

The oxideqt-codecs-* packages provide extra codecs for HTML5 <video> and <audio> rendering by the Oxide engine. This can be used by QT applications - which you likely do not need as most major browsers include these plugins or will those provided by gstreamer0.10-plugins* and other packages.

1) The oxideqt-codecs-extra likely includes what is included in oxideqt-codecs, so there is no need for the oxideqt-codecs package - which is also why the packages conflict. So having only the oxideqt-codecs-extra package should be fine.

2) Looking here and here, this package has only been available since this version of Ubuntu (Trusty 14.04), so it has not been included in previous releases like 12.04 to cause any problems.

Reference: http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=2217426

Comments

[web.learner]

English only please. You got the title in English, why not the body? Anyway, can you try to install ubuntu-restricted-extras from the terminal and paste the entire output into your question? (edit it to add this) Thanks.