On Fri, Apr 27, 2007 at 08:05:21PM +0100, somethin2cool wrote: > Andrew Sackville-West wrote: > >On Fri, Apr 27, 2007 at 12:14:07PM +0100, somethin2cool@yahoo.com wrote: > >>Just to save me doing a bunch of formats and re-installs, can someone > >>tell me off the top of their head what media player would have been the > >>default for AVIs if i installed Debian 4 binary 1 (gnome), then added > >>xfce and opened an AVI from Thunar? > > > >what exactly would cause the formats and re-installs? > > > >A > > Currently it's faster than fixing problems, but in this case it would be > to reproduce the exact environment of a few days ago just some friendly advice: learn to use your package manager (apt-get, aptitude, whatever). formats and reinstalls are really a last resort and almost never needed. Especially for something as trivial as selecting a media player. And nothing prevents you from having more than one installed. I typically have 3 or 4 installed and use different ones depending on my mood. for reproducing an exact environment, look at dpkg --get-selections, dpkg --set-selections and apt-get dselect-upgrade. hth A
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