Ubuntu is not a good distribution for Multimedia

[Vincent Trouilliez]

> Not sure if your understanding is quite right.  Ubuntu offers a very
> good but reduced set of packages selekted specificaly for 'Standard
> Desktop' use.  

Well yes, obviously, Ubuntu aims at the desktop and server market, so it
offers and supports packages that people are likely to use ! ;o)
Maybe Ralf is right, you are more after a dedicated multimedia
workstation rather than a general purpose desktop/home box ?

> True for standard/business apps but no nesseserily for multimedia.

See above ;-)

> I have been compiling sources 

Ah ! So all is well then, you already have got it working ? Great ! :o)
Please roll a .deb package and submit it to Ubuntu ! :-)

> but was hoping to do newbie howtos for
> multimedia.  The problem with compiling from source (I believe) is that
> apt douse not know about stuff you have added...

I am not familiar with the command line program 'apt', but Ubuntu offers
a Graphical front-end for this, in order to manage packages easily.
I too was worried about the problem you describe, but no more ! :-)
It's very easy : instead of doing 'make install' type 'checkinstall'
instead ! This is a little program (install it from Synaptic) that will
make everything that's needed to incorporate your program properly into
the system. Then, if you start Synpatic, you will find your program
there, you can un-install it, re-install it etc, works like a
charm ! :o)


Regards,

Vince