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I would like to watch a DVD. However, I have run into difficulties. Here is what I have done so far.

  1. started by following these instructions

    Specifically, here are the steps identified in that web page that I have followed

    sudo apt install libdvd-pkg
    

    pressed "ok" or similar to various routine sounding prompts

    sudo dpkg-reconfigure libdvd-pkg
    

    Result:

    Step 1 does not seem to have worked as I don't think VLC media player is on my computer. At least I don't see it when I click on the icon with the 9 dots in the bottom left of my screen (the tool the brings up the list of programs). Also, when I insert the DVD and then I right click the DVD looking icon (the icon that comes up on the desktop) the closest appropriate program that I can find is "video player" but when I select that, that gives an error message.

  2. Next, I followed some instructions on How to play DVDs in Ubuntu 16.04?.

    Regarding the first answer listed there, I seem to have already done something similar to the first part of that answer (the first 2 parts of that answer). So, I skipped those steps. I did do the steps related to the region code. Next, I started to try the second answer listed.

    I tried this command,

    wget http://download.videolan.org/pub/debian/stable/libdvdcss2_1.2.13-0_i386.deb
    sudo dpkg -i libdvdcss2_1.2.13-0_i386.deb
    

    But, that doesn't seem to have worked. A lot of the response that got generated by terminal, says wget: unable to resolve host address

    At the end, terminal says

    downloaded: 1 files, 43k in 0.1s
    

    It doesn't sound like it downloaded much in the end, so I am thinking that the steps in answer 2 have not been working so far.

muru
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libdvd-pkg only installs the libdvdcss files required for decrypting the discs.

Also run the following to install the applications files needed for browsing the discs:

sudo apt install libdvdnav4 libdvdread4

Then you should just be able to install the VLC Player:

sudo apt install vlc

I like to install everything that VLC has, so I run this:

sudo apt install vlc*

You can also install the ubuntu-restricted-extras that gives you more encoders and applications for playing media:

sudo apt install ubuntu-restricted-extras
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