Re: UBUNTU Hoary Hedgehog on Acer TM2200 & Sony Vaio PCG-215B

From: Sybren Stuvel (sybrenUSE_at_YOURthirdtower.com.imagination)
Date: 07/11/05 

Date: Mon, 11 Jul 2005 23:14:07 +0200

Ivan Marsh enlightened us with:
> Mplayer can be installed very easily from RPM.

Why would you do that on a Debian based system? You're over
complicating things.

> rpm -Uvh <packagename> is not rocket science.

It is for people who have a Debian based system and who don't know how
to convert one package to another.

> The Mplayer plug-in can be installed easily from RPM.

It's easier to use the lines from my /etc/apt/sources.list and then
just install it from Synaptic.

Sybren 

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