installing program in kubuntu

[Matthew Flaschen]

Tim M wrote:
> Automatix and Easyubuntu (which I have never heard of) load software and
> drivers that are not free . . . not licensed maybe. I don't know but I do
> know that it is extremely hard for a person that doesn't have a lot of
> experience to get a sound system working,

That's ridiculous.  Automatix doesn't provide any extra sound drivers,
and almost all sound cards are supported by the vanilla kernel.

> play a DVD

Oh, you mean installing two packages (libdvdread3 and libdvdcss2)?

> and other tasks without spending many hours researching how to simply play a tune in Ubuntu.

Installing three or four packages at most.

> Right now I am trying hard to figure out how to get Audacity to play a tune! It isn't
> easy.

That's probably because Audacity isn't a media player.  It's a sound
editor, and not meant for playing "tunes"  Try amarok.

Matt Flaschen