how to install programs and pluggins in one place

[whorush at comcast.net]

guys, thanks for the responses.

corey, true, there are pages for this, but i'm saying there are a bunch and they are all over the place.  i think a first 20 minutes faq would make it worse.  we'd have some documentation in there on how to install programs, some other things and ALL of those things would be elsewhere.  so it would be even more like the way things are now, where there are multiple coppies in multiple places.  say you want to update one of those things, to be through, you'd need to search the whole wiki and find all occurences and update them.

i'm saying we could start by organizing the wiki a little better, not by making more general purpose pages but by making a single page for installing programs and pluggins.

as a real live newbie, i understand the newbie psychology a bit.  a newbie starts out and he has a list of tasks.  mine is install realplayer, mplayer, flash, java, mp3 support, mount my windows drive and make grub boot it.  i think that should be in separte wiki's, for example, one for installing programs and pluggins and one for configuring ubuntu to love windows.

george, i love the idea of a script, but i think it would be way easier to do once all the docs for installs are in one place and no where else.

anyone agree?