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That's what you get for trying to abandon Gentoo... LoL. |
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Robin |
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On 12/20/05, Martin S <shieldfire@×××××.com> wrote: |
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> I must confess. I've been unfaithful. |
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> For a day. |
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> After thoroughly trashing my system (~x86) for the second time by |
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> uncarefully upgrading my box I decided that I'd try something less brain |
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> taxing. |
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> So I reinstalled with Kubuntu. |
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> I'm reinstalling Gentoo now ... |
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> I prefer battling with my own errors rather than someone elses. |
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> I had to fiddle repeatedly with the installation routine just to get the |
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> thing installed. It constantly refused to install on my laptop |
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> unless I used extended debugging (on the fifth attempt). Then I just |
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> wondered who decided I needed all that rubbish in my KDE installation. |
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> All rubbish installed I tried opening a mpg from the net. "Totem can't |
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> handle mpg", trying Kaffeine I get "No codecs installed". Looking |
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> desperately for codecs in the install tools I came up empty. So I tried the |
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> installation docs for Kubuntu - which aren't updated for the latest release. |
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> So I went to the forums to look for the solution, but being acustomed to the |
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> Gentoo forums I found them a bit confusing. |
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> OK, I thought - I'll leave that for later, so I tried playing a DVD "can't |
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> find the CD-player" at the location that /etc/fstab says it is mounted. |
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> So I run an installer, it is setup with the configuration decided on by |
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> Kubuntu developers, and it doesn't work out of the box. |
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> Why bother? |
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> Back to Gentoo. And battling my own errors... |
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> I think I'll run the stable branch this time though. |
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> Regards, |
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> Martin S |
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