NOTE: LM 18.3 LiveMedia system from LOCKED flash drives.
Mint surely has it's quirks. I started streaming videos in 18.3, and installation of both flash as well as other codecs are required for various sources.
According to the LM 18.3 Release Notes, to load the required files for offline installation of codecs (for all 4 Desktops):
That's great, but when I do an "sudo apt-get install mint-meta-codecs", it loads and installs a DIFFERENT set of files! About 33 of the 123 files are different. I would have thought they would all be the same ??? Here are about half of the differences ... the 1st in a pair is from the "apt-get install" and the 2nd is from the "tgz" archive:Boot from the Linux Mint ISO on a computer which is connected to the Internet
Open a terminal and type "apt download mint-meta-codecs" (without the quotes)
This creates a "mint-meta-codecs.tgz" archive
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! 896760 Mar 30 2016 chromium-codecs-ffmpeg-extra_49.0.2623.108-0ubuntu1.1233_amd64.deb
- 1018526 May 11 15:23 chromium-codecs-ffmpeg-extra_66.0.3359.139-0ubuntu0.16.04.3_amd64.deb
! 107386 Mar 25 2016 gstreamer1.0-libav_1.8.0-1_amd64.deb
- 92484 Feb 14 2017 gstreamer1.0-libav_1.8.3-1ubuntu0.2_amd64.deb
! 1361448 Mar 25 2016 gstreamer1.0-plugins-bad_1.8.0-1ubuntu1_amd64.deb
- 1362542 Nov 23 2016 gstreamer1.0-plugins-bad_1.8.3-1ubuntu0.2_amd64.deb
! 21452 Mar 25 2016 gstreamer1.0-plugins-bad-faad_1.8.0-1ubuntu1_amd64.deb
- 21416 Nov 23 2016 gstreamer1.0-plugins-bad-faad_1.8.3-1ubuntu0.2_amd64.deb
! 84906 Mar 25 2016 gstreamer1.0-plugins-bad-videoparsers_1.8.0-1ubuntu1_amd64.deb
- 84924 Nov 23 2016 gstreamer1.0-plugins-bad-videoparsers_1.8.3-1ubuntu0.2_amd64.deb
! 215134 Mar 25 2016 gstreamer1.0-plugins-ugly_1.8.0-1ubuntu1_amd64.deb
- 215714 Sep 6 2016 gstreamer1.0-plugins-ugly_1.8.3-1ubuntu0.1_amd64.deb
! 33748 Mar 25 2016 gstreamer1.0-plugins-ugly-amr_1.8.0-1ubuntu1_amd64.deb
- 18648 Sep 6 2016 gstreamer1.0-plugins-ugly-amr_1.8.3-1ubuntu0.1_amd64.deb
! 13020 Mar 14 2016 libavcodec-extra_7%3a2.8.6-1ubuntu2_all.deb
- 13026 Apr 12 13:29 libavcodec-extra_7%3a2.8.14-0ubuntu0.16.04.1_all.deb
! 4083332 Mar 14 2016 libavcodec-ffmpeg-extra56_7%3a2.8.6-1ubuntu2_amd64.deb
- 4090274 Apr 12 13:29 libavcodec-ffmpeg-extra56_7%3a2.8.14-0ubuntu0.16.04.1_amd64.deb
! 531124 Mar 14 2016 libavfilter-ffmpeg5_7%3a2.8.6-1ubuntu2_amd64.deb
- 530380 Apr 12 13:29 libavfilter-ffmpeg5_7%3a2.8.14-0ubuntu0.16.04.1_amd64.deb
! 805092 Mar 14 2016 libavformat-ffmpeg56_7%3a2.8.6-1ubuntu2_amd64.deb
- 807684 Apr 12 13:29 libavformat-ffmpeg56_7%3a2.8.14-0ubuntu0.16.04.1_amd64.deb
! 51938 Mar 14 2016 libavresample-ffmpeg2_7%3a2.8.6-1ubuntu2_amd64.deb
- 51974 Apr 12 13:29 libavresample-ffmpeg2_7%3a2.8.14-0ubuntu0.16.04.1_amd64.deb
! 165606 Mar 14 2016 libavutil-ffmpeg54_7%3a2.8.6-1ubuntu2_amd64.deb
- 165580 Apr 12 13:29 libavutil-ffmpeg54_7%3a2.8.14-0ubuntu0.16.04.1_amd64.deb
! 121602 Oct 23 2015 libgme0_0.6.0-3_amd64.deb
- 122034 Dec 13 2016 libgme0_0.6.0-3ubuntu0.16.04.1_amd64.deb
! 411288 Mar 25 2016 libgstreamer-plugins-bad1.0-0_1.8.0-1ubuntu1_amd64.deb
- 400658 Nov 23 2016 libgstreamer-plugins-bad1.0-0_1.8.3-1ubuntu0.2_amd64.deb
! 38250 Feb 2 2015 libmspack0_0.5-1_amd64.deb
- 36980 Aug 17 2017 libmspack0_0.5-1ubuntu0.16.04.1_amd64.deb
Thank you for any comments, suggestions, and assistance.
Blessings in abundance, all the best, & ENJOY!
Art in Carlisle, PA USA