I give up (was problems as newbie: Bob)

[Alfred]

Hi :

The problem may be that you are trying to use the GUI, to process the
file. You need to make use of something called a Terminal, in which you
make use of something called the Shell, and a set of Commands called
BASH! With that you can tackle the way the file gets Executed! 
Perhaps a Linux Book, or try Wiki Books, etc. From there you can learn
about this Shell Game, and soon after Answer Questions like these!

Alfred!

On Mon, 2006-20-11 at 16:10 -0800, Bob wrote:
> ** Reply to message from alfredo perez <alfredoj69 at gmail.com> on Mon, 20 Nov
> 2006 17:08:12 -0500
> 
> > If you have installed the win32 codecs package correctly
> > check to see what you have in the directory /usr/lib/win32
> > 
> > ls //usr/lib/win32
> > 
> > you should see a bunch of dll files. If you do then you have installed 
> > the deb package correctly.
> >
> 
> That's what happened, 130 files, mostly .dll with a few with extensions that
> I'm not familiar with. My problem is, "What do I do with these?" The only
> application included with the system is Movie Player and I can't find any way
> to associate the dlls with this app. The HELP file indicates a way to install
> proprietary plugins but the radio button it says to press is not there.
> 
> > Question:
> > 
> > With what are you opening the .wav files?
> > 
> 
> The only one included with the system, Rythembox Music Player, and it only
> handles MP2, FLAC and Ogg/Vorbis. 
> 
> In addition to the above, if I receive an attachment of a .wav file, when I
> click on the attachment in Evolution Mail it brings up Movie Player, which
> demands a non existent codec with no way, that I can find, to change this
> behavior. 
> 
> One more situation, two days ago I downloaded Google Earth for Linux. It is
> sitting on my desktop as a .bin file. I assume that inside that .bin wrapper is
> a group of files, including .exe files, to install and/or run Google Earth but
> that's as far as I have got because no matter what I have tried 
> so far Ubuntu tries to open it as a .txt file, which naturally does not work.
> 
> That's it unless some one can point me to an understandable manual/book or
> whatever.
> 
> Best regards.
> 
> Bob
> 
> _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _
> 
> where am I going - - - - - - - - - and why am I in this handbasket
> _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _
> all mail checked by Norman Virus Control and brought to you
>                 via Polarbar Mailer and OS/2 WARP 4.52                     
>    
>