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Re: [LUG] little Linux story...

 

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


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