Re: debian user vs. browser plug-ins
On November 30, 2002 09:20 pm, Leo Spalteholz wrote:
> On November 30, 2002 07:27 pm, Travis Crump wrote:
> > Colin Watson wrote:
> > > On Sat, Nov 30, 2002 at 05:53:55PM -0800, Leo Spalteholz wrote:
> > >>On November 30, 2002 03:56 pm, vasco figueiredo wrote:
> > >>>you can add
> > >>>
> > >>>deb http://marillat.free.fr/ stable main
> > >>>
> > >>>to /etc/apt/sources.list
> > >>>and do
> > >>>
> > >>># apt-get install mplayer
> > >>
> > >>I've never gotten this to work.. In my sources I have:
> > >>deb http://marillat.free.fr/ testing main
> > >
> > > You can't reliably just make up a distribution, especially not
> > > for non-Debian sources. Try either 'stable' or 'unstable'
> > > instead of 'testing'.
> >
> > He appears to have fixed it now, but not that long ago, Christian
> > had on his website that 'deb http://marillat.free.fr/ testing
> > main' was the correct source.list line if you wanted testing
> > packages even though their were no packages in that archive[or at
> > least from what I could determine the only thing in the archive
> > was w32codecs] so the poster wasn't necessarily just making up a
> > distribution. Though as I said, the website no longer claims that
> > a testing archive exists.
>
> Aha! Yeah I got that link when the website still said testing.
>
> thanks, it works now with stable.
>
> leo
hmm.. dumb question perhaps but how do you get mplayer to display a
GUI? Its working from the console and I did install some skins.
leo
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