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Is Medibuntu needed - or even desirable?

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Recently I started having a problem when checking for updates: the process stalled for several minutes while connecting to the medibuntu site. This happened every time. (Mysteriously, this only happened on one of my two computers.) Getting tired of this, I unchecked Medibuntu in my software sources, and everything speeded up again.

Is this something I will regret? I have some things installed from Medibuntu, but once installed do I get anything by getting updates from Medibuntu? Or are things now provided elsewhere - like in Multiverse - sufficiently now so that I no longer need Medibuntu?

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answered 1 Year ago rialhirt · Accepted Answer

I believe in recent versions of Ubuntu, multiverse repository contains most of the required packages. But, some enhanced codecs are not include due to licensing issue. (Because they are not free, as freedom). Those packages are maintained by medibuntu repostiory.

Is this something I will regret?

No, actually. If you already installed all the necessary codecs. Because, medibuntu repository updates once for a single release. See this.

Are things now provided elsewhere - like in Multiverse - sufficiently now so that I no longer need Medibuntu?

Though, multiverse contain most of the packages, it still missing some. For example, you can't find these packages named with extra.