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I have a brand new installation of Ubuntu 18.04.

When I try to stream radio Rhythmbox I get the error 

Your GStreamer installation is missing a plug-in

I have looked at the dependencies of Rhythmbox using:

apt-cache depends rhythmbox

and checking the libraries one by one using, e.g.

ldconfig -p | grep libgstreamer-plugins-base1.0-0

and this library appear to be missing.

I have downloaded libgstreamer-plugins-base1.0-0_1.16.2-4_amd64.deb and attempted to install it using 

sudo dpkg -i libgstreamer-plugins-base1.0-0_1.16.2-4_amd64.deb

But I get th error

dpkg: error processing archive libgstreamer-plugins-base1.0-0_1.16.2-4_amd64.deb (--install):
 conflicting packages - not installing libgstreamer-plugins-base1.0-0:amd64

[Edit 20200418 11:52 BST]

I also get the message

Additional Multimedia Codec Required
An application is requesting additional multimedia codecs

I have run

sudo apt install ubuntu-restricted-extras

What can I do?

JoKeR
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  • I guess you made a mistake somewhere, this package is available for Ubuntu 18.04 in official repo https://packages.ubuntu.com/search?keywords=libgstreamer-plugins-base&searchon=names&suite=bionic&section=all no need to download .deb – JoKeR Apr 18 '20 at 11:43
  • what happens when you run `sudo apt install libgstreamer-plugins-base` ? – JoKeR Apr 18 '20 at 11:44
  • @JoKeR Unable to locate package libgstreamer-plugins-base. Th install was from the ISO – Psionman Apr 18 '20 at 11:47
  • Did you open the repositories? You can [look here](https://itsfoss.com/ubuntu-repositories/) – JoKeR Apr 18 '20 at 11:51
  • @JoKeR main, universe, restricted and multiverse are all checked in Sotware & Updates – Psionman Apr 18 '20 at 12:58
  • that is weird, what is the output for `uname -a` ? – JoKeR Apr 21 '20 at 08:37
  • @JoKeR 5.3.0-46-generic #38~18.04.1-Ubuntu SMP Tue Mar 31 04:17:56 UTC 2020 x86_64 x86_64 x86_64 GNU/Linux – Psionman Apr 21 '20 at 08:51
  • bionic (18.04LTS) (libs): GStreamer libraries from the "base" set 1.14.1-1ubuntu1~ubuntu18.04.2 [security]: amd64 i386 – JoKeR Apr 21 '20 at 09:00
  • it seems like you didn't upgrade the distro to ubuntu18.04.2 – JoKeR Apr 21 '20 at 09:00
  • run `sudo apt update && sudo apt dist-upgrade` – JoKeR Apr 21 '20 at 09:04
  • @JoKeR done that and restarted the PC. Still get the same output from `uname -a` – Psionman Apr 21 '20 at 10:59
  • That is really confusing why you can't locate it if it's available for 18.04 – JoKeR Apr 22 '20 at 13:51
  • Here's similar topic https://askubuntu.com/questions/378558/unable-to-locate-package-while-trying-to-install-packages-with-apt – JoKeR Apr 22 '20 at 13:53

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It turns out that the message from Rhythmbox is misleading. I was trying to play stations that require you to register and sign-in (BBC). Rhythmbox was giving these misleading error messages that sent me off down the wrong track.

This answer has solved my problem for me

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Open Rhythmbox and in the Activities bar at the top left of the screen you will see it listed with a small down arrow by its side.

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Click on the down arrow and you will be presented with a drop down menu amongst which is listed Plugins.

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You can then configure plugins as required.

If there are no plugins present, you can install them by following these steps in a terminal:

sudo apt-get update -y

sudo apt-get install -y rhythmbox-plugins

The -y flag assumes yes and silently install.

Reference

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