getting heavily into multimedia on ubuntu, how to start?

[NoOp]

On 05/29/2010 02:53 AM, sam tygier wrote:
> On 29/05/10 10:32, Robert P. J. Day wrote:
> 
>>    obviously an open-ended question, but is there a canonical guide for
>> setting up a multimedia-oriented version of lynx?  i'm aware of the
>> ubuntu-studio distro but i would prefer to configure the various MM
>> apps one at a time to see how they all hold together.
> 
> ubuntu make much use of meta packages. a software package can tell the package manager that it needs some other packages installed. meta-package does not contain any software itself, but will cause several related packages to be installed
> 
> ubuntu studio uses some metapackages to install all the applications that it needs. if you look at the metapackages you can see what software they install. eg,ubuntustudio-audio
> http://packages.ubuntu.com/lucid/ubuntustudio-audio
> 
> you can see all of them at
> http://packages.ubuntu.com/search?keywords=ubuntustudio&searchon=names&suite=lucid&section=all

And:
http://cdimage.ubuntu.com/ubuntustudio/releases/10.04/release/
- ubuntustudio-10.04-alternate-amd64.list
- ubuntustudio-10.04-alternate-i386.list
to see what is actually on the DVD.
Also:
https://wiki.ubuntu.com/UbuntuStudio
https://help.ubuntu.com/community/UbuntuStudio
https://help.ubuntu.com/community/UbuntuStudio/Applications
https://wiki.ubuntu.com/UbuntuStudio/Wishlist