Re: Greetings and a minor rave!!
On 11 Dec 2006, andy wrote:
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> Andrew Sackville-West wrote:
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> On Mon, Dec 11, 2006 at 09:48:18PM +0000, andy wrote:
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> Am wondering how I go about getting mplayer and adobe acrobat? Any
> steers?
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> mplayer is in unstable, but I don't know about etch. You can also get
> it, along with various codecs of questionable legality from
> [1]www.debian-multimedia.org. I believe he's also got acroread.
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Have a look at vlc. I find it does more than mplayer - in particular, it
allows you to move back and forth easily or speed up the playing.
I find that xpdf does almost everything that acrobat does and is
probably easier to use. Keyjnote is prettier but slower.
A final thought; look at wajig for managing packages; it integrates dpkg
and apt-get and works better than aptitude for me.
Anthony
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