On Mon, Mar 17, 2008 at 4:31 PM, James G. Sack (jim) <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Did you install flash from a repository (nonfree?, what?) or from adobe > tarball or what?.
Yes. Non-free repository. > I get: > dpkg -s flashplugin-nonfree > ... > Architecture: i386 > Version: 9.0.48.0.2+really0ubuntu12 Same architecture, and Version: 9.0.31.0.2ubuntu1 > No libavformat on my ubu/mint boxen -- what about yours, Todd? > Any answer to: > dpkg -S libavformat* Yes, it's installed on my system as "libavformat0d". It came from Medibuntu. > ..jim (what was wrong with text anyhow?) Hear hear. I don't know what to recommend except to enable Medibuntu per the instructions here: https://help.ubuntu.com/community/Medibuntu Then install libavformat and whatever else. I'm a Debian n00b, too. In fact, I've been using Ubuntu for about a year now and I'm going to go back to Gentoo. A lot of my frustrations could be alleviated by learning more about package management. But some of it just plain doesn't make sense or is not as easy as it was in Gentoo. And in fact, I've spent much of this evening pissed off at my computer. I just want to install vmware-server and it won't let me. First, the packages didn't work. So I removed it. Then I found some different instructions to install and so I tried those. Now it tells me that vmware-server is already installed and I have to remove it with --purge. But using --purge just tells me "vmware is not installed". Argh! And the apt-get commands don't make sense anyway. Why would you overload apt-get with a remove operator (apt-get remove is oxymoronic) but not with search? And the output of search sucks. Multimedia has always put me in knots. Medibuntu helped with that, but I'm still chasing down packages. In Gentoo I just spent a tedious hour or two at install time specifying what formats I wanted to be able to play, and then installed mplayer and voila. No more hassle. I'm giving up. Ubuntu is only easy if you have no demands of it. Sorry for the earful. -todd -- [email protected] http://www.kernel-panic.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/kplug-list
