Author: Sean Gibbins Date: To: Hampshire LUG Discussion List Subject: Re: [Hampshire] Ubuntu Dependency Madness - was Debian Etch
andSynaptic?
Jack Knight wrote: > Thanks Al, but I'd rather just use mplayer for everything, because it
> really *does* seem to play just about anything given the right codecs.
> I've googled, hacked and fiddled, removed totem completely and firefox 2
> *still* tries to open stuff with totem. I've removed caches, changed
> mime types and finally symlinked /usr/bin/totem to /usr/bin/gmplayer,
> which kind of works albeit ps ax shows totem running!
Speaking of mplayer and Ubuntu, I tried to install it recently and
couldn't find it with an 'apt-cache search'. Anyone able to point me in
the right direction?
