from fedora to ubuntu

Nat Gross nat101l at gmail.com
Fri May 16 17:06:54 UTC 2008


On Fri, May 16, 2008 at 12:18 PM, Chris Mohler <cr33dog at gmail.com> wrote:
> On Fri, May 16, 2008 at 10:09 AM, Nat Gross <nat101l at gmail.com> wrote:
>>>
>>>    And I never have found a use for yum on Ubuntu :-)
>> What about multimedia, mp3's and wmv. Works out of the box?
>> Also, the apt repos. Is there one huge repos that has all the stuff,
>> or do I need the various repos like livna, freshrpm's, and worry about
>> the conflicts?
>
> Yeah - you can say goodbye to the conflicts.  Most of the codecs are
> in the Multiverse repo if they're not installed already.
>
>
> A couple things I found helpful during migration:
>
> sudo ln -s /usr/sbin/invoke-rc.d /usr/sbin/service   (or just remember
> "invoke-rc.d" - but I can't :)
>
> sudo apt-get install sysv-rc-conf  (there seems to be no chkconfig)
> sudo sysv-rc-conf (to turn on/off services)

Thank you all.
Hope to give it a spin on Sunday.




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