On Fri, Apr 27, 2007 at 08:05:21PM +0100, somethin2cool wrote: > Andrew Sackville-West wrote: > >On Fri, Apr 27, 2007 at 12:14:07PM +0100, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > >>Just to save me doing a bunch of formats and re-installs, can someone > >>tell me off the top of their head what media player would have been > >>the default for AVIs if i installed Debian 4 binary 1 (gnome), then > >>added xfce and opened an AVI from Thunar? > > > >what exactly would cause the formats and re-installs? > > > > Currently it's faster than fixing problems, but in this case it would be > to reproduce the exact environment of a few days ago
I'm resending this 'cause I lost my connection mid-write... If I've duped myself, sorry. So. A word of friendly advice: learn to use your package manager (apt-get, aptitude, synaptic, etc). Reinstalling is usually a last resort with debian, and is generally not necessary except in the most extreme cases of fs corruption and the like. It is certainly overkill for something like choosing a media player. And nothing prevents you from installing multiple media players. I typically have 3-4 on my machines and use them for different purposes or moods. As far as reproducing an environment, look into dpkg --get-selections, dpkg --set-selections and apt-get dselect-upgrade. A
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