KDE4 questions, two problems

[Alan Dacey]

Steve Lamb wrote:
> Knapp wrote:
>> If you just type aptitude on the CLI you will get an intresting gui
>> with a lot of power and that leads naturally to the short cut of using
>> it as a CLI program.
> 
>     While I am a fan of aptitude (long time Debian user, so natch) but I =
> fail
> to see how adept is that bad?  Specifically Alan was looking for vlc.  I =
> just
> opened Adept, typed in "vlc" in the search, clicked on "multimedia" and i=
> t was
> 4th option.  Granted this was on 4.2 but the 4.1 version was not any diff=
> erent
> in this regard.

I know about aptitude, but my friend did not like it, he has only known windows 
his whole life.  He found aptitude too different to use.

I did not see vlc after I clicked on the multimedia tab.  I could have missed 
it.  I think I will have to install 8.10 in vbox and play a little.  Thanks for 
the answer to my first question -- file: replaces system:

Alan

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