I give up

[Mathieu Avoine]

Hi Bob,

I haven't participated to the conversation but I feel that you are not
getting an answer because the question is not asked in the right place.
There are a lot of answers you can get from Ubuntu-CA list however you will
get quicker answers from the user support lists. Before you give up
entirely, may I suggest a few places on the net?

If you are having trouble with codecs and that sort of things, the place to
go is the Multimedia & Video support forum:
http://www.ubuntuforums.org/forumdisplay.php?f=138

If you feel that your problem is more an installation issue, the place to go
is the Installation and Upgrade support forum:
http://www.ubuntuforums.org/forumdisplay.php?f=140

I don't know if you knew it already but here's the website of the Victoria
Linux User Group (VLUG). On the website you can get contact info for various
mailing lists and other stuff to get in touch with the people over there.
Maybe a phone call or jump in for a group meeting, you will surely find an
answer to your questions.
http://www.vlug.org/

All I can say is hang on! Using linux can be frustrating at times (believe
me, I had - and stil have - my load of frustrations) but it is really fun in
the end.

Hope this helps!

Math

On 11/22/06, R. Wood <au516 at freenet.carleton.ca> wrote:
>
> Allegedly, on Wed, Nov 22, 2006 at 04:53:45PM -0800, Bob stated:
> > Someone wrote:
> > > A .deb file is an archive that has information on how to install it
> > > and how to remove it (I understand that this is a gross
> > > simplification).
> > >
> > > sudo dpkg -i <name of the package> (in the dir that it is in).
> > >
> > > or (in userspace) right click the .deb package in in Konqueror and
> > > select install from the Kubuntu package menu
> > >
> > > Just a note, for regular packages downloaded from the repos, 'sudo
> > > apt-get install <package name>' will install and configure the
> > > package. You can also use package management tools (like synaptic or
> > > adept or aptitude (for the commandline).
> > >
> > > The issue that you are facing is that the w32codec.deb package can
> > > not be available on ubuntu repos due to licencing issues.
> >
> > I had no trouble getting the file and there must be an installer
> > attached because the whole procedure ended with the .deb package
> > placed in the /home folder and all of the files, 130 of them, from the
> > package placed in /user/lib/win32. So it looks like that is, in fact,
> > the installation procedure.
> >
> > Bob Barr
>
> You still haven't clarified the method you used to 'install'.  Frankly
> IMHO you're going to have to get much more specific and provide details
> to the list, or no one will be able to help you make progress :-/
>
> To get good answers, you have to ask good questions :-)
>
> Have Fun with GNU/Linux,
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