On Thu, Feb 01, 2007 at 10:16:44PM -0800, Incoming wrote: > I have been fighting with this damned Debian 3.1 - Sergeant Wolly or some such - and I can't even print. I have also installed JRE, but I haven't found out how to connect it to Firefox. > OK. Where did you obtain the JRE? How did you install the JRE? > I can't downlosd from my digital camera. > OK. How are you trying to download from your camera? Did you get any errors? What did they say? > I can only play a few of the video formats out on the web. There doesn't seem to be any one that will play them all, or, failing that, convert to a format that will play on what I have (Totem, RealPlayer which doesn't really work). > OK. What media player are you using? Are you pulling packages from www.debian-multimedia.org? What errors are you getting? > Every time I go looking for solutions I wind up going in circles and drowning in a mass of half-baked how-to's and advice on how to run files that no longer exist or led from one useless document to another as I RTFM. Well, boys and girls, so far any FM I have encountered is NFG or NWAPOCS (Not Worth A Pinch...). I can't say that it's not entertaining, but I need a complete operating system and not some ill-fitting patches. > OK. Debian is a complete operating system. However, some assembly is required. > Before anyone decides to engage in infantile gibberish, otherwise known as rants or flames, don't waste my time. > It seems that you have wasted people's time here with your rant without any useful information that can be used to help you fix/get past your problems. > What I really want to know is why this is so difficult to put together and how it can be done without me becoming a systems engineer. Not that I'd mind, it's just that, currently, I just don't have the time. It's not that difficult. If you will provide examples of commands that you have run and the resulting output/errors, then we can help. I don't think anyone on this list is clairvoyant. Regards, -Roberto -- Roberto C. Sanchez http://people.connexer.com/~roberto http://www.connexer.com
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