On Thu, 26 Jan 2006 19:28:21 +0000 Digby Tarvin <digbyt@acm.org> wrote: > Still finishing off my first Debian install, and am puzzling > over the apparent absence of some very basic programs which > I thought were pretty much universally available on *nix > systems... > > Can anyone tell me why 'apt-cache search' doesn't find the > likes of the following: > > 1. xv - John Bradley's X image viewer/manipulator.. google found this: http://ftp.fifi.org/debian-local/stable/unofficial/ > 2. xlock - I don't use it for locking the screen, but it is > a good for benchmarking x-servers because most systems have it... apt-cache show xlockmore > 3. mplayer - most players work ok with mpeg etc, but this is the > one with which I have had the most success with troublesome > formats like wmv. not in the official debian repositories. google for marillat as he has unofficial packages. A > Am I just searching in the wrong place, or does the Debian package > selection really lack some very fundamental utilities, does anyone > know of the explanation? > > Perhaps there are newer alternatives that are considered better, > but I would rather use the same programs on the various computers > that I need to use, and to date these have always been the common > denominators... > > I assume there won't be any problem installing a tarball in the > traditional way, but I want to make sure that not duplicating > effort if a debian package exists somewhere I havn't looked... > > Regards, > DigbyT > -- > Digby R. S. Tarvin digbyt(at)digbyt.com > http://www.digbyt.com > > > -- > To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-REQUEST@lists.debian.org > with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmaster@lists.debian.org >
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