kubuntu configuration

[Net Llama!]

On Sat, 11 Nov 2006, Alma J Wetzker wrote:
> Net Llama! wrote:
>> On Sat, 11 Nov 2006, Alma J Wetzker wrote:
>>> kubuntu configuration gurus,
>>>
>>> This week I installed kubuntu on my wife's laptop.  kubuntu works great.
>>> Unfortunately, that does not include the applications that my wife
>>> requires.
>>>
>>> I need to get cmap (Concept Map), a java app, working.  Near as I can
>>> tell, I don't have Java.  How do I get it?
>>
>> java.sun.com
>
> I have the package, I just don't know how to install it.

Extract it wherever you want, its installed.

>>
>>> I need to be able to play DVDs.
>>
>> xine is likely your best bet.
>
> xine is ghosted in all the gui install wrappers for apt.  Not sure why.

So don't use the gui?

>>> I found the automatix instructions and loaded it.  That does not include
>>> libdvdcss2 nor does in include the windows codex files.  I have found
>>> (and downloaded) the libdvdcss2*.deb, but I can't find the magic
>>> incantation to allow installation of a *.deb on the disk, instead of on
>>> the web.  I tried copying the *.deb to the /var/cache/apt/ spot where
>>> all the rest of the *.debs are hiding.  What am I missing?
>>
>> shouldn't you be using apt-get to install that stuff?
>
> Yes, I do believe that I should.  I followed the links that Matthew
> posted, but I did not get the packages I expected from apt-get.

Perhaps you're missing repositories?

>>
>>> Where can I get the windows codex *.deb files?  The site listed in
>>> kaffeine is defunct.
>>
>> i'd imagine that they ship with mplayer or are an add-on package for
>> mplayer.
>
> Leon gave me a link that seems to have all the win32 codecs
> http://www.mplayerhq.hu/design7/dload.html
> That seems to help.

That's where they come from.  That's the only place that ever has them 
complete, although I believe that there are debian packages that include 
them too.

>>> If I can get local *.deb files loaded, that should solve my 'R' problems.
>>
>> i think dpkg is what you need.
>
> Yup, that is what I needed.  The next question is why apt-get didn't work.

Hard to say, since you didn't post any error messages or output.

>
> You would think that if Novell was going to sell out, they aught to at
> least sell out so that they can set all this stuff up from the getgo.
> Imagine being able to play videos and DVDs straight from the getgo.

That violates US laws.  Mandriva actually ships with some craptastic 
commercial DVD software, but then you're running Mandrival.

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