I was trying to get VLC media player so that I could enable .mp3 playback. Ubuntu 10.04 does not have .mp3 support out of the box. However this is not really a concern of mine now that it will just be used as a photo viewer. I was just inquiring in case I stumble across any helpful software in the future.
My main computer has internet connectivity. This was just an old scrap computer of mine, its too old to support WiFi or ethernet, so the only way I could get internet connectivity (when it was still on windows xp) was through USB networking, which it seems is not supported in Ubuntu. Therefore, as it stands, I have no internet connectivity.