Automatix

[jtaber]

Joe,
you might want to check out Christer's blog on how to install all 
necessary codecs from regular repositories - it should meet any of your 
multimedia needs (and maybe even eliminate the reason for dual booting). 

Christer Edwards wrote:
> On Wed, May 09, 2007 at 06:45:17AM -0600, Joseph Barney wrote:
>   
>>    [1]http://www.getautomatix.com/
>>
>>    This was recommended to me on another forum. It works great with Debian
>>    and Ubuntu/Kubuntu, from what I understand. Hopefully nobody posted this
>>    link already.
>>
>>    I'll give this a try on my desktop pretty soon. First, I gotta reinstall
>>    WinXP Pro, and then I will upgrade my Kubuntu.
>>
>>    Joe
>>
>> References
>>
>>    Visible links
>>    1. http://www.getautomatix.com/
>>     
>
> Joe,
>
> Ubuntu officially *doesn't* support automatix and if you install it
> don't expect help on this list or on the ubuntu forums.
>
> not to sound like a hard ass or anything but automatix tends to break
> things and then makes it hard to troubleshoot or fix because its third
> party scripts using third party repositories.
>
> everything automatix can do can be done officially.  if there is
> anything on the automatix list that you want done *and* want supported
> just ask and I'll let you know, but I suggest *not* using automatix to
> do it.
>
> Christer
>