Re: Installing a program with exe

On Sun, 2008-03-09 at 18:17 +0100, Bjørn Simonsen wrote:
Hi Winton

Try opening Synaptic and typing in "Search" dictionary and see what
comes up.
Install from synaptic
This is what I have done. I hve installed two programs and I have got
the message that Installation was OK.
But I can't find the programs. The one was Videolan and the other was
Clue (ductionary).

The only "clue" I can find in Synaptic is this one:
http://packages.ubuntu.com/gutsy/clue

However, it just shares the name with the dictionary application for
Windows; this one does not even really exist anymore, it was renamed to
"cl-clue", and "clue" is just a transitional package to ease upgrading.

cl-clue in turn is a "Lisp package for clue/clio/pictures: X interfaces
for lisp", which I don't think you want.


I can't find a package "videolan", either. The only one I can find with
a similar name is "videolan-doc":
http://packages.ubuntu.com/gutsy/videolan-doc

"This package contains useful documentation for the VideoLAN streaming
solution: the VLC Play HOWTO (a complete guide to using VLC as a media
player), the VLC Streaming HOWTO (a guide to using VLC as a streaming
solution), the VLS user guide and the VideoLAN FAQ."

If you follow the link I gave, you will find a link to the list of files
it installs. Synaptic can show you this, too.

You likely want the videolan player, whose package name is "vlc":
http://packages.ubuntu.com/gutsy/videolan-doc

(Note that all given links assume that you use Ubuntu 7.10, Gutsy. I
don't know which version you really use because your email client broke
the thread, so that the post I am replying to lost its context)


--
ubuntu-users mailing list
ubuntu-users@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
Modify settings or unsubscribe at: https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-users

Relevant Pages

  • Re: [opensuse] oss 11.0 VLC not supporting mkv video
    ... I notice the opensuse 11.0 release of VLC no longer plays mkv files. ... install another player? ... There are 2 versions of VLC, from VideoLan repository, and from ... you can always use mplayer to play almost everything:) ...
    (SuSE)
  • Re: Updates SOLVED!
    ... It says it doesn't have the right vlc number or whatever. ... Setting up Install Process ... No package vlc-0.8.6d-1.fc8.i386.rpm available. ... I tried to load vlc from freshrpms and it is broken. ...
    (Fedora)
  • Re: Updates SOLVED!
    ... Putting Synaptic to one side, and after having done the apt-get update, ... problems with the vlc package, ... Then an apt-get install vlc may have printed out some usefull info. ... We've already confirmed that if you originally got vlc from freshrpms, the maintainer should be shown as Matthias Saou, so the packages above should also show him as the maintainer. ...
    (Fedora)
  • Re: Updates
    ... Setting up Install Process ... Parsing package install arguments ... My speculation, you have vlc and packages from some other repository, ... enable freshrpms repository again and try to update ...
    (Fedora)
  • Re: Updates
    ... Setting up Install Process ... Parsing package install arguments ... My speculation, you have vlc and packages from some other repository, ... enable freshrpms repository again and try to update ...
    (Fedora)