from fedora to ubuntu

[Nat Gross]

On Sun, May 18, 2008 at 5:51 PM, "Terrell Prudé Jr."
<microman at cmosnetworks.com> wrote:
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> Nat Gross wrote:
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> On Fri, May 16, 2008 at 12:18 PM, Chris Mohler <cr33dog at gmail.com> wrote:
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> On Fri, May 16, 2008 at 10:09 AM, Nat Gross <nat101l at gmail.com> wrote:
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>    And I never have found a use for yum on Ubuntu :-)
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> 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?
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> Yeah - you can say goodbye to the conflicts.  Most of the codecs are
> in the Multiverse repo if they're not installed already.
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> A couple things I found helpful during migration:
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> sudo ln -s /usr/sbin/invoke-rc.d /usr/sbin/service   (or just remember
> "invoke-rc.d" - but I can't :)
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> sudo apt-get install sysv-rc-conf  (there seems to be no chkconfig)
> sudo sysv-rc-conf (to turn on/off services)
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> Thank you all.
> Hope to give it a spin on Sunday.
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> Handling MP3's is easy; Ubuntu will ask you if you want to install the
> codecs.  Because of legal systems that allow software patents (like the
> USA), a warning will come up saying, "This may or not be legal depending on
> what country you're in."
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> Better to download (or rip) OGG's whenever possible, though.  :-)
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> WMV's, on the other hand, might take a bit more work, but not too much
> more.  A buddy just recently ran into this with Hardy.  He tried downloading
> what looked to both of us like MPlayer's codec package.  However, things
> didn't work out for him, for some reason.  I told him, just download the
> codecs from www.mplayerhq.hu, and he did, and boom, things worked
> perfectly.  The codecs need to go into /usr/lib/codecs, IIRC.  I do know
> that when you compile MPlayer yourself (that's what I usually do), the
> codecs need to go into /usr/local/lib/codecs.
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Thanks for the info. When and if I get 4.08 running I need to come
back to this post.