New to Linux, need a little spot

Hi, I downloaded and installed Kubuntu (the latest version), and so far I'm enjoying it. I've just run into a bit of a problem. Initially, I was able to navigate via the "Start" menu to the Add/Remove programs (or packages, software, etc.) page and install or uninstall various things. However, I can't for the life of me navigate to that page again.

It's actually ridiculous. I was just able to do it, and I didn't even think twice about it. Now, it's like completely hidden - there is no software management option. Any help would be appreciated.

 

K Menu > search "adept"

Doesn't that turn up anything?

 

No. I tried every possible search word I could think of - program, manager, software, adept, k-something and a bunch of others that I googled that may or may not apply to Kubuntu =/ Zilch.

 

Open up xterm.
log in as root
run

Code:

synaptic

 

That wouldn't work in Kubuntu.
He needs to launch Adept.
If you still can't find it, run kdesu adept from a terminal/run box.

 

Apparently, it was uninstalled. But wow, installing adept through terminal was a breeze after. Thanks guys.

 

Anyone know how I can install this Codec pack? ([link removed]) It's for Windows, I'm not sure there is a linux version. I'm interested in this specific codec pack because it has CoreAVC, for free. Thanks.

 

What is the difference between kdesu and su ?

 

You don't. That codec pack is copyright infringing if it includes CoreAVC because CoreAVC is not free. Install the Win32/Win64 codecs, and if you're still not getting good performance, you might need to switch to a multi-threaded mplayer and change your frontend to use "mplayer -lavdopts threads=2" for the mplayer command (plus whatever else) If that package won't work, you can always compile mplayer from source like I do. I can provide 64bit packages of x264, ffmpeg-mt and mplayer-mt for Jaunty if you want (the mplayer and ffmpeg packages are a little flaky, I haven't trimmed them properly or separated the libs out into separate packages like they need to be). CoreAVC takes some major hacking to get working on Linux and the project that used to have it working is now shut down. The display paths and libraries for Linux are completely different than on Windows. If you have an Nvidia 8xxx or later card in your machine you can use VDPAU to accelerate your H.264 decoding, and that apparently works quite well from what I hear.

 

Thanks. I'll toy around with Linux a bit more (and to be honest, you started speaking a foreign language to me at one point =P). I'm just testing it out right now on a laptop because I intend to install Linux on a netbook, and I've read that CoreAVC helps a lot with HD decoding on people using netbooks running Windows. Hence the interest.

 

In Ubuntu/Other Linux Distro you don't need to run CoreAVC because the way linux does video playback is better than windows and therefore more efficient. =P

 

Haha, Linux seems to be more efficient than Windows. Currently trying to get sound to work properly, both with Youtube and Mplayer. The only sound I have right now is the log in/test sound.

Still, really digging Kubuntu right now.

 

Are you using alsa or oss?

 

ALSA, from the looks of it. It's still not working, and I've been perusing through guides for a while.