Re: Any Sarge/Testing APT sources that have stuff like mplayer

[Kyle Pointer <kapointer@charter.net>]

Bryan J. Smith wrote:

>On Tue, 2005-01-11 at 19:03, Kyle Pointer wrote:
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>>Any one know of any servers that I can use as an APT source to get 
>>packages like mplayer blackdown java all that jaz?
>>       -- Kyle
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>Actually, official Debian doesn't provide most of those packages, just
>unofficial Debian repositories (although is Blackdown in official?). 
>But there are several unofficial ones that do.
>
><Second Hand Knowledge=ON>
>I've heard Christian Marillat's APT repository is the best for
>multimedia and other DPKG packages:  http://marillat.free.fr/  
>Alternatively:  ftp://ftp.nerim.net/debian-marillat/  
></Second Hand Knowledge>
>
>[ NOTE:  I don't have enough current (i.e., last 18 months) experience
>with Debian, virtually none on corporate networks in that time, to
>comment further.  Most of my Debian installs over the last 18 months
>have been Xandros releases.  So this is purely _second_hand_. ]
>
>There is always http://www.apt-get.org , but I recommend you stick to
>_trusted_ repositories and not arbitrary ones.  Do this _regardless_ of
>your distro or front-end method and don't blindly add anything to your
>sources.list without considering possible quality/conflict issues.
>
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>>( recently switched to debian, freedom free *and* beer free )
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>It's the same thing on other distros, be it Red Hat, Mandrake, etc...
>There are official APT/YUM/URPMI/etc... repositories and unofficial.
>I.e., what were you using before?
>
>If Red Hat, you can always use Livna.ORG, which has all of the former
>Fedora Project (before the Red Hat takeover) packages such as MPlayer,
>XMMS-MP3, etc... that have been moved out of Fedora Extras as a result.
>
>Just be careful where you use it.  As an Enterprise admin, I had to give
>people an earful when they used a Knoppix or other LiveCD on their
>corporate desktop.  A lot of Knoppix variants include a lot of
>unlicensed commercial binaries -- and I'm not talking simple click
>through licensed software.
>
>As a good friend and fellow Debian advocate/maintainer once said ...
>
>  "This is a freedomware [redistribution] issue that has to be handled
>   by each of the distributors (Debian, Fedora, Mandrake, etc)."
>
>It's not a Debian is better thing, although Debian _does_ have, by far,
>the largest selection of both official and unofficial repositories for
>packages.  "Free Beer" and well as "Illegal Beer" is available for all
>distributions, through automated, distributed methods like APT, YUM,
>URPMI, etc...
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LOL, I like debian and all but I think I'm gonna go back to gentoo 
again. lol
-fluffy

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