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May 24, 2006

GCFilms – DVD Collections Made Easy

Filed under: Audio / Video — ubuntux @ 4:49 pm

If you’ve got as large of a DVD collection as I do, you know that it can become pretty challenging to keep track of all your movies. GCFilms makes it easy to organize your collection by grabbing movie information (and photos!) for you automatically from IMDb, Amazon.com, or one of many other sources, in addition to giving you a place to keep track of where you put a particular movie (is it in Binder #2? On Shelf #3?) and who has borrowed movies from you.

However, there’s just one problem with using GCFilms under Ubuntu: the Ubuntu repositories have GCFilms 6.0, while the latest release is 6.1 – which fixes a lot of bugs. So, before you go pulling your hair out, here are some simple steps you can take to get the absolute latest version direct from the authors.

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