Hello Everyone

I've just switched from Redhat 9.0 to Ubuntu5.10, and I've found it much smoother and better looking , however I am having some small problems:

1.I've read the ubuntuguide.org, and the rpm repositories seem to be out of date, and although I have uncommented every the repositoiry address in /etc/apt/source.list, then "sudo apt-get update", it still cannot find common rpm packages such as xine, flashplayer, sun-j2re1.5 etc. here's my source.list:
2. When I viewed movies in .wmv format, they were very choppy, I did download the following following codecs:
sudo apt-get install gstreamer0.8-plugins
sudo apt-get install gstreamer0.8-lame
sudo apt-get install gstreamer0.8-ffmpeg
sudo apt-get install w32codecs
sudo apt-get install libdivx4linux
sudo apt-get install lame
sudo apt-get install sox
sudo apt-get install ffmpeg
sudo apt-get install mjpegtools
sudo apt-get install vorbis-tools
gst-register-0.8
but gstreamer0.8-lame, w32codecs, libdivx4linux, lame, and mjpegtools seemed to be missing from the above repositories?

3. I usually do my programming tasks in vim, but I was unable to turn on the java syntax.

4. If I were to find an rpm on other websites, say sourceforge.net, which distribution should I download, before I can use packages from both Fedora3 and Redhat 9.0, but there doesn't seem to be a binary package for Ubuntu? (Debian?)

That's all I have for now,

Thank you for your time

first, in order to install rpm's you need to install "alien" from the repositories. in the terminal to it will create a deb package. then you simply do voila.

as far as playing wmv file, you need to install the w32codecs, you need to look around for those but they do have deb packages available for that. sometimes i look for then in the debian repos.