Am 08. Jan, 1999 schw=E4tzte Frank Burton so:

> I am running a flavor of Deb that is unstable. I am loving the apt-get
> system. However there are some packages that I would like to have that I
> can't  get using apt-get (mplayer and synce for example) I googled and
> found the programs I want and they are available as .deb packages but I
> have no idea how to install them.  I could compile the source I guess (

Go to www.apt-get.org to find unofficial repositories. Be more careful when
pulling package from there as you want to make sure the maintainer has some
credibility.

> Haven't tried it with Deb yet.) but since someone went through the time
> and effort to make them Deb packages I want to go through the time and
> effort to install them the "Debian way"

Put the new sources in /etc/apt/sources.list, do an update, then install
away.

The following might be of interest to you. Marillat was no longer on
apt-get.org for some reason earlier this week, but the sources still worked=
=2E

# Packages for dvd/video players such as mplayer
deb http://marillat.free.fr/ stable main
deb http://marillat.free.fr/ testing main
deb http://marillat.free.fr/ unstable main

# VideoLAN sources
deb http://www.videolan.org/pub/videolan/debian i386/

synce seems to already be available, provided the following is what you're
after.

synce-dccm - Daemon to keep a connection to your WinCE device up

ciao,

der.hans
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