<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD HTML 4.01 Transitional//EN"> <html> <head> <meta content="text/html;charset=ISO-8859-1" http-equiv="Content-Type"> </head> <body bgcolor="#ffffff" text="#000000"> -----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 That never occured to me. I have used apt-get.org before without any problems. Gill "From time to time, the tree of liberty must be watered with the blood of tyrants and patriots." -- Thomas Jefferson "Those who have long enjoyed such privileges as we enjoy forget in time that men have died to win them" -- FDR "People sleep peaceably in their beds at night only because rough men stand ready to do violence on their behalf" -- George Orwell John wrote: | R S Gill wrote: | |> -----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 |> |> Go to <a class="moz-txt-link-abbreviated" href="http://www.apt-get.or/search.php">www.apt-get.or/search.php</a> |> |> Search for win32-codecs. |> |> Add the sources to you /etc/apt/sources.list file and then do |> sudo aptitude update, followed by sudo aptitude install |> win32-codecs. |> |> You'll then be able to play all kinds of media files!! |> |> Gill |> | Should that be <a class="moz-txt-link-abbreviated" href="http://www.apt-get.org">www.apt-get.org</a>? | | I've gone off apt-get.org because I don't see that it's properly | controlled. | | Let's say that you get a deb line: deb <a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="http://w32-codecs.org">http://w32-codecs.org</a> .... | | Some time in the future the owner decides to plop Gnome, growisofs | and/other stuff in there. | | Potentially, w32-codecs.org has become your primary repository for | all sorts of unofficial stuff you don't know about or want. | | There may be ways to controll what you get from there, but London | to a Brick hardly anyone here knows how:-) | | | -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.2.3-nr1 (Windows XP) Comment: Using GnuPG with Thunderbird - <a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="http://enigmail.mozdev.org">http://enigmail.mozdev.org</a> iD8DBQFBUL5BVrCt/ganSIoRAjjsAKDKV1bv6/xgRHWYAm9ZogSCkZa7awCfQr7u G/lBKFLQYsQ4qZyqhfRucp8= =EVBx -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- </body> </html>