[clenny]

I've been trying to install mplayer and opera using apt-get but I keep getting error messages. For mplayer I get the message that it can't find the package and for opera it says there isn't any install candidate/ What the hey? What does that mean? I don't know. Anyway, I made a screenshot if that helps.

[CouchMaster]

If it's not in the repository then you will have to DL the tarball and install manually.

[fenderfreek]

Both of those are in repositories, but not the official ones. You need to enable the nonfree universe and multiverse repositories.

http://www.ubuntux.org/how-to-add-un...rse-repository

[clenny]

Thanks, that helped quite a bit. The available info is well written for the most part. Still it's a bit of a learning curve. I thought I was pretty savvy because I know Mac and WIndows fairly well. It seems I've only scratched at the surface. I'll post back if I need more help.