Re: Debian install for beginners?

["Sridhar M.A." <mas@uomphysics.net>]

On Fri, Mar 08, 2002 at 04:42:43PM +0000, Karl E. Jorgensen wrote:
   > 
   > > For a file manager, use rox. If your friend is comfortable with a text
   > > interface, emelfm should be very good.
   > 
   > Which package is rox in? An "apt-cache search" turns up lots of proxies
   > and the roxen challenger webserver, but nothing that looks like a file
   > manager. packages.debian.org doesn't seem to know either.
   > 
No. You cannot find it in official debian repository. Go to
http://rox.sourceforge.net and download the debs from there.
   
   > > You do not need gtcd to rip cd's. Install cdparanoia and lame
   > > (unofficial package). That should do the trick without pulling in the
   > > gnome libs.
   > 
   > Is there a GUI for that? So far I've been running gtcd + cdparanoia +
   > blade myself, with gtcd providing the GUI. 
   > 

Grip does provide a gui for cdparanoia + lame. Lame cannot be
distributed by debian. Get the debs from

  http://marillat.free.fr/dists/stable/main/binary-i386/

I avoided mentioning grip because the question was to have a light
system. Using cdparanoia and lame is trivial. Lame is _supposed_ to be a
better encoder than blade. I was using blade earlier, switched over to
lame. It is much faster.

Regards,

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Sridhar M.A.                                mas at uomphysics dot net

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