[RndTbl] Re: Roundtable Digest, Vol 23, Issue 2
Steve Moffat
Steve.Moffat at ca.ibm.com
Thu Nov 2 12:22:09 CST 2006
I only see these once per day, so if this has been offered already I
apologize.
But, speaking of Edgy and finding software over and above the Ubuntu
install, have you seen Automatix?
http://www.getautomatix.com/
pretty slick, especially for multimedia things.
Steve
IBM Global Services
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Today's Topics:
1. Ubuntu newbie question (Mike Pfaiffer)
2. Re: Ubuntu newbie question (Scott Balneaves)
3. Re: Ubuntu newbie question (Mike Pfaiffer)
4. Packages in Ubuntu (Mike Pfaiffer)
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Message: 1
Date: Wed, 01 Nov 2006 20:55:43 -0600
From: Mike Pfaiffer <high.res.mike at gmail.com>
Subject: [RndTbl] Ubuntu newbie question
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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
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Message: 2
Date: Wed, 1 Nov 2006 21:00:25 -0600
From: Scott Balneaves <sbalneav at legalaid.mb.ca>
Subject: Re: [RndTbl] Ubuntu newbie question
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On Wed, Nov 01, 2006 at 08:55:43PM -0600, Mike Pfaiffer wrote:
> 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.
Have you re-enabled the universe and multiverse repositories?
System -> Administration -> Software Sources.
Scott
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Scott L. Balneaves | "Looking beyond the embers of bridges glowing behind
us
Systems Department | To a glimpse of how green it was on the other
side..."
Legal Aid Manitoba | -- Pink Floyd "High Hopes"
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Message: 3
Date: Wed, 01 Nov 2006 21:37:03 -0600
From: Mike Pfaiffer <high.res.mike at gmail.com>
Subject: Re: [RndTbl] Ubuntu newbie question
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Scott Balneaves wrote:
> On Wed, Nov 01, 2006 at 08:55:43PM -0600, Mike Pfaiffer wrote:
>> 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.
>
> Have you re-enabled the universe and multiverse repositories?
Actually I didn't. I just turned them on. Simple fix I didn't
know about.
> System -> Administration -> Software Sources.
Works in KDE too. The path is System -> Software Source.
> Scott
>
Thanks.
Later
Mike
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Message: 4
Date: Thu, 02 Nov 2006 10:51:34 -0600
From: Mike Pfaiffer <high.res.mike at gmail.com>
Subject: [RndTbl] Packages in Ubuntu
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I was going through the list of packages in the package
manager. There
is always something I don't want and I can remove (eg. IM clients). I
found something interesting... There was a package titled rpm and the
description matched what I used to do under Fedora. Has anybody tried it
yet? Is it worth installing?
Later
Mike
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