[RndTbl] Ubuntu newbie question

[Mike Pfaiffer]

    OK. I shot myself in the foot with this one... I'll admit it up front.

    I did the upgrade from Dapper to Edgy. It went better than most. 
Suffice it to say I got the GUI back as well as a number of other things 
which messed up. While tracking down one problem (something wasn't 
finding files for  verification I burned onto a DVD - source or copy I 
don't know) I figured the problem might have been a library 
(libdvdread1). I thought I'd uninstall and reinstall. The problem is it 
took out mplayer. Again I figured an uninstall and reinstall may do the 
trick. Well now I can't reinstall it or vlc because both depend on this 
library and the library is unavailable.

    Figured I'd try compiling it myself but Ubuntu complains about no 
acceptable C compiler in the path.

             Later
             Mike