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

[NZG <ngustavson@emacinc.com>]

If your referring to the whole Java debacle, most distributions are not going 
to offer a clean package install, as it's not truely open source.
Installing Java on Debian is a pain, but not really all that hard.
Several websites offer HOWTO's with basically the same information.
http://wiki.osuosl.org/display/DEV/Java+on+Debian

I don't believe Blackdown is official, no.
Regardless I haven't had much luck with their packages, unless you want to 
install a really old version of Java, which most people do not.

thx,
NZG.



On Wednesday 12 January 2005 03:31 pm, Kyle Pointer wrote:
> Bryan J. Smith wrote:
> >On Tue, 2005-01-11 at 19:03, Kyle Pointer wrote:
> >>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
> >
> >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.
> >
> >>( recently switched to debian, freedom free *and* beer free )
> >
> >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...
>
> LOL, I like debian and all but I think I'm gonna go back to gentoo
> again. lol
> -fluffy
>
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