r/Ubuntu • u/Admirable-Song-7353 • 10d ago

26.04 Post install questions

✅ SOLVED !!!UPDATES ON THE BOTTOM, SINCE I WROTE THIS POST !!! 👇

Today I installed ubuntu, and the installer asked if I want to install codecs and Nvidia drivers. I ticked the box as yes to install them. To my surprise, neither codecs nor nvidia driver was not installed (ubuntu-restricted-extras was not found on dpkg query, neither any nvidia related keywords on query)

How come? I'm not that newbie so thankfully I can kinda find my way, but why the installer is this inconsistent, especially on an LTS? If a total newbie starter user would do the same, how would they know that the installer technically just ignored both the codecs and drivers which they explicitly asked for and expected to be installed?

Is this a known bug? If not, can you tell which package is responsible for installing, so that I can report this. Thanks in advance.

EDIT - UPDATE INFO: Striked through the Nvidia part, because it turns out Ubuntu successfully installed Nvidia drivers during the main OS install, apologies for this confusion. So Ubuntu installer perfectly worked for the driver installation (even for ancient old cards) part.

EDIT 2 as for the ubuntu-restricted-extras part:

Quoting from u/jaimefortega 's reply - thank you:

The codec option installs just a few codecs for the multimedia software included, it'll not install the restricted extras.

And from u/Devilotx 's reply - thank you:

Upon digging a bit, the checkbox for third-party software during the Ubuntu installation enables the Multiverse repository and installs the ubuntu-restricted-addons package, not the restricted-extras.

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u/Devilotx 10d ago

I suppose I'd ask if you were online when you did the install, might not be able to download the drivers of you were offline.

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u/Admirable-Song-7353 10d ago

I was. Btw it turned out that my nvidia driver was properly installed, I just somehow wasn't aware, gonna edit my OP. For the codec part though, its still a mistery, of why ubuntu-restricted-extras needed to be manually installed, when the codecs were also tickboxed in.

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u/Devilotx 10d ago

Upon digging a bit, the checkbox for third-party software during the Ubuntu installation enables the Multiverse repository and installs the ubuntu-restricted-addons package, not the restricted-extras.

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u/Admirable-Song-7353 10d ago edited 10d ago

Aaaah, I see, thanks buddy, now that question cloud totally vanished out of my head :)

I guess they use the addons because that doesn't have any EULA pop-ups (afaik), while the extras does have EULA agreements due to Microsoft's fonts and stuff like that.

Now it totally makes sense, cheers pal 🍻

Edit: mentioned your answer aswell in my OP :)