Mac wrote: > Mac wrote: > <snip> >> ...Aptitude seems to keep track of >> dependencies better than synaptic, so you can <sudo aptitude remove >> 'packagename'>, and, better yet, when things get bad <sudo aptitude >> purge 'packagename'>, ... > > By 'packagename' I mean, of course, the name that you find listed in, > say, synaptic (e.g. 'realplay' or 'mozilla-thunderbird'). In fact I > tend to search for packages with the synaptic 'Search' feature, and then > install from a terminal with aptitude. > > Does anyone use the aptitude GUI? (Perhaps I should say "GUI", as it's > more a 'sort-of' GUI - the one that starts when you just do 'aptitude' > in a terminal. Quite powerful, but old-fashioned and clunky.) > > Mac > > > > Ok in the end I done another install of RealPlayer, I then got some codecs from Synaptics for MPlayer and great I can now view what I what to. I mainly use this website to view.
www.movieflix.com Thank you all for your help. Mike. -- [email protected] https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-uk https://wiki.kubuntu.org/UKTeam/
