I can't help with the equalizer, but regarding conf files: In general, conf files are just plain-text files that can be edited in whichever text editor you prefer. That said, editing a conf file is a rather application-specific task, so it's less "learning how to edit conf files" and more "learning how this particular application formats its conf files" with some applications having conf files that are rather human-readable and fairly self-explanatory and others having conf files that are hard to parse even with a guide. Though, one thing you could try is looking up the equalizer package with no configuration tool in a package manager and checking the list of packages that depend on it. If there exists a frontend that lets you avoid messing with conf files, it probably depends on the low-level equalizer. I know the curses-based Aptitude has such functionality, but I sespect other frontends for apt have it as well. To look this up in Aptitude: >From the command line: sudo aptitude This will bring up aptitude's main package list, which sorts packages into a hierarchy by install status, software category, and License. Press forward slash to bring up a search box. type the name of the package you want to check what depends on it and press enter. If the first result isn't what you're searching for, press n to go to the next result. Once you've found the package you're interested in, press enter to bring up its details. The details page will have the name and description at the top, tags and some data about the package(such as size, architecture, source, and maintainer), and then a list of related packages sorted by relationship. The relationships section will start with packages the selected package depends on, recommends, suggests, etc if there are any, followed by conflicts and breaks, and each section can be expanded/collapsed by pressing enter on its heading. Further down will be a section for packages that depend on the selected package, and while most relationship section are only displayed if there are packages in them, this one will be displayed even if there are zero packages in it. It will have subsections for depends, recommends, and suggests, and if the selected package has any aliases, separate sections that call for the alias instead of the packag directly. Pressing enter on any package listed in the relationship area will bring up it's detail page, or a list of versions/alternatives if multiple versions are available or multiple packages can fulfill the same dependency. And for the sake of completeness, the last item of a package's detail page in aptitude is a list of available versions. Oh, and lowercase q will take you to the previous screen, capital Q will prompt exit from aptitude back to the command line, Plus sign marks the highlighted package for installation, minus sign for removal, lowercase u refreshes the package list, lowercase g shows you a preview of what will be done, and pressing g again on the preview executes changes. _______________________________________________ Blinux-list mailing list Blinux-list@xxxxxxxxxx https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/blinux-list