Anthony Campbell wrote:
On 11 Dec 2006, andy wrote:
Andrew Sackville-West wrote:
On Mon, Dec 11, 2006 at 09:48:18PM +0000, andy wrote:
Am wondering how I go about getting mplayer and adobe acrobat? Any
steers?
mplayer is in unstable, but I don't know about etch. You can also get
it, along with various codecs of questionable legality from
[1]www.debian-multimedia.org. I believe he's also got acroread.
Have a look at vlc. I find it does more than mplayer - in particular, it
allows you to move back and forth easily or speed up the playing.
I find that xpdf does almost everything that acrobat does and is
probably easier to use. Keyjnote is prettier but slower.
A final thought; look at wajig for managing packages; it integrates dpkg
and apt-get and works better than aptitude for me.
Anthony
To Nate, Anthony, John, Andrei, & others:
Thanks for your welcomes and recommendations. I look forward to getting
to know the new system. As I said I am very impressed, although a bit
confused too as I learn my way around. I haven't used Gnome since RH 7.2
preferring XFce throughout my Slackware days, so I am becoming familiar
with both Gnome and Debian.
In the weeks to come no doubt I will have found a number of questions to
pursue, but so far the docs seem pretty comprehensive which will be a
big help.
Once again - thanks all.
Cheers
A
