Struggeling

Stephen Mc Gowan mcclown at gmail.com
Tue Aug 23 10:12:19 UTC 2005


On 8/23/05, Slabber A <14565471 at sun.ac.za> <14565471 at sun.ac.za> wrote:
> Hi I don't know if I am aloud to ask so many questions in one msg,(im still rather new) but ya here it goes.
> 
> 1. I still cant watch AVI movies, tried to install codec's as explained in Ubuntu Userguied but I keep getting a msg that says "E:couldnt find package". Same happens when I tried to install VLC.
>

For both of these to install with apt or synaptic you need to add the
extra repositories as explained
here:http://www.ubuntuguide.org/#extrarepositories. As far as I
remember I got that error last time I did a fresh install and forgot
to add the extra repositories. If you have added them then just try
apt-get update

> 2. Cant listen to MP3 I think it is also a codec's problem.

Did you follow all these instructions yet? http://www.ubuntuguide.org/#codecs

> 
> 3. Struggling to set up Internet connection I have a dial up modem, just don't know how to set it up or make it dial a #.

I remember seeing a tutorial somewhere on this(maybe it's in the wiki)
but I havn't had to do that in years

> 
> 4.I have a Samsung YH 820 MP3 player if I connect it to USB the MP3 player boots and then says transferring but nothing happens in Ubuntu. If I then plug it out the MP3 player says please safely remove hardware from windows.(works perfectly in Windows).
> 
> 5.Got it right to mount Windows hard drive in Ubuntu but as soon as I reboot it disappears again and I have to mount it again but the fstab file still has the command in it tho.
> 
> Thanks I really like Ubuntu (Windows sucks its boring) but I guess im just really struggling with the basics.Thanks for your help.
> Ash
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