Public bug reported:
This is more of a feature request than an bug and it surely won't be
done for feisty but here it goes anyway:
Easy codec installation allows users to immediately install missing bits
and pieces for their multimedia enjoyment without forcing them to hunt
for the appropriate packages.
This mechanism should be expanded to cover other applications and
packages as well. For example I recently tried to open a RAR-archive
with Ark. Ark correctly told me that "unrar" either wasn't in my PATH or
wasn't installed at all. But even though Ark knew exactly what was
missing, it didn't offer to install unrar.
This is just an example of a possible new package to allow for easy
installation. Other filetypes should be evaluated. As for the
possibility, that (in this case) unrar actually was installed but not in
the PATH: if this was that case the user most probably didn't use apt-
get or whatever to install it and it can be assumed that the user in
question is experienced and did whatever he did on purpose. For these
cases there's always the option to decline easy installation.
** Affects: Ubuntu
Importance: Undecided
Status: Unconfirmed
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Expand easy codec installation
https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/100064
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