Firefox and Mplayer plugin on 6.10

[Brendan]

On Sunday 10 December 2006 22:29, Charles Weber wrote:
> On Sunday 10 December 2006 10:08 pm, Brendan wrote:
> > On Sunday 10 December 2006 22:05, you wrote:
> > > >> I put the "deb http://www.getautomatix.com/apt edgy main" in my
> > > >> sources.list but in "apt-get update" I got a GPG error NO_PUBKEY
> > > >> 18B52FE3521A9C7C !?
> > > >
> > > > Remember, before you hit send...see if you can check a FAQ or Google
> > > > for the answer. It's not rocket science, and you don't really want to
> > > > blow the signal to noise ratio, do you?
> > > >
> > > > In Konqueror, that's: gg: GPG error NO_PUBKEY
> > > >
> > > > And on that first search page, there is your EXACT answer...Hmmmm,
> > > > curious.
> > >
> > > Did you find an answer to my first question about mozilla-mplayer ?
> >
> > With that search string? Nope.
> > I'm sure another search would yield something, but it is not up to me to
> > try. I don't have the issue. Give it a shot.
>
> Forget automatix, if you have to edit your sources.list, might as well
> enable the extra repositories and use a package manager and also avoid
> having to do the gpg thing altogether for most things
>
> https://help.ubuntu.com/community/Repositories/Kubuntu
> Then you can get the packages you need for mozilla-mplayer
> https://help.ubuntu.com/community/RestrictedFormats
> for the codecs, etc you will need
>
> But the search string mentioned earlier will definitely fix you up super
> fast :)

Total agreement here. Automatix is for people who want to continuously fix 
their systems instead of learning a few things up front. Nothing wrong with 
the software itself, but it just takes an hour or so to learn enough apt-get 
to be very dangerous.