Downloading???

[Jim Baker]

Ray,
	Welcome to the world of naive computer users who hope to be able to 
access the wonderful world of open source. I hope you get a better 
response than I have from the "supportive community." The fact is that 
you really need to investigate the details of UNIX so-called command 
line operation on your own. Most people playing on this field are at 
ease with how that all works. To me, it is becoming a little less 
mysterious, but I'm still not there yet either.
	One hint I will give you is there is a very good tutorial on 
navigating with typed commands (instead of the mouse) in the "terminal 
window," at www.osxfaq.com/Tutorials/   This is a Mac tutorial, but I 
think the UNIX commands are the same as on the PC. At least it will 
answer your questions about the terminal window and how UNIX commands 
are generally used. You've got a hill to climb, but I think it's worth 
the effort. Good luck.
	JayBee



On Dec 7, 2006, at 5:43 AM, Ray Gordon Smith wrote:

> I AM TOTALLY NEW TO LINUX AND HAVE NEVER USED A LINUX OS BEFORE PS3, IV
> ONLY USED WINDOWS BEFORE, WHAT I NEED TO BE EXPLAINED TO ME IS HOW TO
> DOWNLOAD CODECS LIKE REAL PLAYER, QUICKTIME, FLASH, ETC. EVERYTIME I 
> TRY
> TO DOWNLOAD I GET SOME KIND OF ERROR MESSAGE OR THE DOWNLOAD
> INSTRUCTIONS TELL ME TO WRITE SOME KIND OF COMPUTER SCRIPT IN A
> "TERMINAL" WHAT IS A TERMINAL?? AND HOW DO I FIND IT??? CAN SOME HELP??
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