Multimedia components and proprietary programs
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The New Java
To use Java applications, you need a Java Runtime Environment (JRE). Ubuntu does not provide Oracle's proprietary Java version anymore – only the free OpenJDK. Because some Java programs had problems in the past with OpenJDK, many users often resorted to the proprietary Java (sun-java ). But, that's missing now because Oracle put it under a nonfree license. Because the proprietary Java is compatible with OpenJDK 7 – the official Java reference – most Java programs should be able to make do with the free Java.
You can install the software from the openjdk-7-jdk and icedtea-7-plugin packages, and the older version from openjdk-6-jdk and icedtea-6-plugin via the following command:
$ sudo update-alternatives --config java
This step activates one of the parallel installed Java versions. If an app refuses to run, it's best to submit a bug report at the Ubuntu wiki [9].
Seek and You Shall Find
You can install many proprietary apps and multimedia codecs from the existing repositories. Numerous proprietary Windows programs also run in the Wine Windows-compatible environment [10]. Other than that, take a look in the Ubuntu package manager, because almost any application has a free alternative. l
Infos
- RipperX: http://sourceforge.net/projects/ripperx/
- Recording Blu-Ray disks: https://help.ubuntu.com/community/CdDvd/Burning#Blu-Ray_Burning
- libdvdcss at VideoLan: http://www.videolan.org/developers/libdvdcss.html
- LinDVD: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/LinDVD
- Commercial GStreamer plugins: http://www.fluendo.com
- "Safe Communication with Tox ", by Vincze-Aron Szabo, Ubuntu User Issue 24, p. 44: http://www.ubuntu-user.com/Magazine/Archive/2015/24/Safe-communication-with-Tox
- μTox: http://utox.org/
- Google Earth: http://www.google.com/earth/index.html
- Reporting bugs: https://help.ubuntu.com/community/ReportingBugs
- Wine: http://www.winehq.org/
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