audacity in karmic, ffmpeg source to package

OPEN ISSUE: below steps didn't work. removed everything afterwards.

had another steep learning curve to get a simple thing done here.
making audacity work and import audio from a video (mp4) file. it complained about not having ffmpeg.

wish the ubuntu guys would get their act together - if you already have a package in the repository, why do you have to download SOURCE, then COMPILE, then do all these geeky stuff? all the more intimidating for the millions of computer users out there.

my references:

1. http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=786095

2. http://daily-hacking.blogspot.com/2009/08/ffmpeg-with-amr-support-on-ubuntu.html

Bluetooth on Karmic

went to this site: http://blueman-project.org/downloads.html

then :
sudo add-apt-repository ppa:blueman/ppa

then:
sudo apt-get update
sudo apt-get install blueman

Karmic Upgrade

It's been a while.

Yesterday and today I upgraded 9.04 with 9.10. Yesterday for downloading the packages, and today for the actual upgrade. After rebooting, it couldn't boot up at first.

Turns out the culprit was the AVIRA Guard, that kept some DazukoFS entries in my /etc/fstab.

Commenting those out solved the problem.

Still in ext3, though.