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jon.davey@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx wrote: > Rob Beard writes: >> jon.davey@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx wrote: >>> Rob Beard writes: >>>> jon.davey@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx wrote: >>>>> OK, the curser on my laptop running Vista just disapears.<snip> > but I need a bit of advise >>>>> on installing Java for Firefox. >>>>> THe instructions are; >>>>> 1. Install Java Runtime Environment. >>>>> 2. Make a symbolic link to libjavaplugin_oji.so in your Mozilla Plugins >>>>> directory. Use the copy located in the plugin/i386/ns7 directory of JRE 5.0 >>>>> or later, or plugin/i386/ns610-gcc32 if you are using JRE 1.4.2. >>>>> ....so, OK, fair enough. Except I don't know how to make a symbolic link. I >>>>> don't expect it's too difficult. Should I google it? Or is it more complex >>>>> that that? >>>>> CHeers, JOn DAvey >>>>> >>>> I can't see why you should need to create symbolic links for Java, I've >>>> managed it by just installing sun-java6-jre and sun-java6-plugin. >>> This should help... >>>> http://en.kioskea.net/faq/sujet-741-installing-java-under-ubuntu >>>> This is assuming though that you're running the standard 32-bit version >>>> of Ubuntu and not the 64-Bit AMD64/EM64T version (which from what I >>>> understand you do need to do a bit more messing around to get Firefox >>>> and Java to work together. >>>> Good to hear your experience with Ubuntu was good.<snip> >>>> Rob >>> ...thanks. not so sure about retreaving thoes files though. I told Ubuntu to >>> use the whole drive during the partitioning. That would've formated the >>> whole disk right? >>> Cheers, JOn DAvey > >> Ahh yeah if you've wiped the whole disk then yeah it's most likely gone >> (it might be recoverable but the time and effort it would take to >> recover it, it's probably not worth it). >> Rob > > ...that link was usefull and I've installed java. Only thing is Youtube is > still telling me that java's turned off or I don't have the latest version > of Flash. NOw I've tried installing flash from Synaptic and it's asked me > for administrator priviledges which shouldn't be a problem but I don't > recall being asked to create a SU account during the install and if I was I > have a default password that I use for EVERYTHING so's I never forget, and > this isn't working. HOw do I get SU privilidges if I never created a SU > account?......I'm a bit baffeled... > > > The password it will ask for is your login password. It uses sudo to temporally give you admin rights for the command which is running. Rob -- The Mailing List for the Devon & Cornwall LUG http://mailman.dclug.org.uk/listinfo/list FAQ: http://www.dcglug.org.uk/linux_adm/list-faq.html