On Wed, 2005-07-06 at 23:33 -0600, Mike Bougie wrote: > Hiya folks, > > great presentation by Jim Elliott I thought. Very insightful, and > somewhat reassuring that an organization like IBM can embrace chance > like they did. Bravo. > > Now on to my question: I am running the latest distro of Ubuntu (5.04) > and I need to get my TV-out working. I have been referred to > http://packages.debian.org/unstable/misc/atitvout but, being a serious > n00b, I can't get it working. >
Mixing Debian sources with Ubuntu can be done, but the unstable branch (sid) is the least stable (of the three branches meant to be used) and thus least likely to work. Having said that this package does not look like it depends on too much, so it stands a good chance of working. First download the .deb by clicking on the i386 link. With most packages you will see links to other architectures, but i386 is likely the one you want. Then choose a download mirror and save the resulting .deb. somewhere. From the command prompt cd to the directory where you downloaded the .deb and then type: sudo dpkg -i atitvout_0.4-3_i386.deb As much as I like ubuntu, I still miss the sheer number of packages that are available for "vanilla" Debian. None of the other Debian Distros comes close (Libranet, Xandros, etc.) though Ubuntu does the best job once you add all the unsupported extras (I wouldn't worry about this for now, though it is well documented on the ubuntu wiki site, just search for backports, multiverse, and universe). Also, I would be careful about converting packages from rpm to deb using the "alien" package. Basically this should be considered to be a last resort. It is better to build a package from source and install it to /usr/local (the default) or even better check out the guide at: http://www.tldp.org/HOWTO/Debian-Binary-Package-Building-HOWTO/ to build a deb yourself. Usually (9 times out of 10) there are .debs that someone else has posted and a google search for "packagename debian" (without quotes) or the addition of "filetype:deb" should do the trick. Cheers, > Can someone please help me with this? > > > _______________________________________________ > clug-talk mailing list > [email protected] > http://clug.ca/mailman/listinfo/clug-talk_clug.ca > Mailing List Guidelines (http://clug.ca/ml_guidelines.php) > **Please remove these lines when replying
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