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I just upgraded from Mepis 6.0 to Mepis 6.5 recently so...

I booted from live disk double clicked the Install icon and selected upgrade (thus preserving my /home directories)

Once installed, booted into Mepis on my Hard drive and added a repository from http://www.debian-multimedia.org/ and installed the programs I wanted from the package manager.

ibritish
kde-i18n-engb
language-pack-kde-en
language-pack-kde-en-base
myspell-en-gb
openoffice.org-l10n-en-gb
openoffice.org-help-en-gb
mozilla-firefox-locale-en-gb
thunderbird-locale-en-gb
wbritish
wbritish-huge
aspell
aspell-en
numlockx
oooqs2-kde
superkaramba
links2
linux-headers
nvidia-glx-legacy
nvu
vim
mc
opera
lame
lame-extras
libavifile
liblame0
w32codecs
libdvdcss2
libdvdnav4
libdvdplay0
libdvdread3
dvdrtools
dvdbackup
dvdauthor
qdvdauthor
transcode
vamps
k9copy
msttcorefonts
vlc
checkinstall
kdelibs4-dev
libqt3-mt-dev
xlibs-dev
kolf
ksh
kdesdk-scripts
kdesvn
kdesvn-kio-plugins
supertux
tuxkart
planetpenguin-racer-extras
gimp-data-extras
gimp-help-common
gimp-help-en
gimp-svg
gimp-gap
lyx
latex2html
latex2rtf
gnuhtml2latex
wv
armagetron
spidermonkey-bin
spidermonkey-dev
expat
gpm
guile-1.6
audacity
shntool
vcdimager
arson
azureus

** tip always keep a list of what you install, it makes upgrading so much easier

next I used the Mepis assistants to set up 3D support for my graphics card, to set up Beryl (3D desktop effects) and my printer.

Then into the settings menu and switch to British English for the user interface, ispell-british for the dictionary and made the Desktop look pretty and set up SuperKaramba.

Next install Oolite using Autopackage.

Finally I compiled a couple of progs from source (special mention here to Yakuake which I would recommend to any KDE user) **tip: When installing from source instead of the command "make install" use "checkinstall".

And that was me set until the next upgrade comes along.

When I uninstalled Ubuntu, I saved my Apt repos list and my marked apps under Synaptic. Good, sound, solid advice.

Is Oolite a stripped-down version of OOo? I've never heard of it before.

And is Yakuake the one where you have the Quake-like console drop down? Because I used a similar app with GNOME (then just went for urxvt in Openbox after many recommendations).

Oolite is an Elite like Game http://oolite.aegidian.org/ (game) and http://oosat.alioth.net/ (expansion packs), it open source (free) and available for Linux/Mac/Windoze. The Linux version uses the Autopackage system for installation http://autopackage.org/

Yes, Yakuake is a drop down Quake-like console (and very a pretty one at that).

Re: Yakuake

A couple of screen shots I did for another thread...

An interactive Bulletin Board over SSH
http://peter.tynan.googlepages.com/snapshot4.png

The Magic of Gopher
http://peter.tynan.googlepages.com/snapshot5.png

I have Oolite on my Mac, is tres cool...especialy as you can fool it into thinking you have an old BBC keyboard.

Thanks for that. I found the name of the one I was using - Tilda (in fact, my shortcut for it was WinKey+`).

I've also been given several recommendations for mpd, I think it is - the music player. Apparently it's really good (and console-based, too).

> Oolite is an Elite like Game http://oolite.aegidian.org/ (game) and http://oosat.alioth.net/ (expansion packs), it open source (free) and available for Linux/Mac/Windoze. The Linux version uses the Autopackage system for installation http://autopackage.org/

Sounds interesting, although I'm not exactly a gamer - love to be, but I'm pretty crap at non-console games. While I'm at it, I'm pretty crap at many console games, too.

I remember trying NetHack and a GUI for NetHack as well (can't remember the name - probably something really imaginative like GTKHack ) and not even being able to move - the keyboard shortcuts made no sense to me.

I'll try Oolite next time I have a chance, though - I'll have to try Battle for Wesnoth then as well.

If your after a console based music player checkout "moc" (music on console) - it gets my vote as it's the only console based music player that I've ever got to scrobble to http://www.last.fm

moc can found over at http://moc.daper.net/

old screenshot of moc http://happy.sdf-eu.org/temp/mocp.jpg

Interesting - looks like it's got a good UI.

Oooh... there's even a SID plugin. If it has S3M and IT plugins, then I'm sold.

Hehehe... an NES theme. Sounds awesome. Thanks.

Always happy to oblige

Good to know. Thanks once again.