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Rob Beard writes: > 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 > > ...oh no, it's getting complicated now. I just tried that with this result; jon@jon-laptop:~$ sudo apt-get install flashplugin-nonfree [sudo] password for jon: E: dpkg was interrupted, you must manually run 'dpkg --configure -a' to correct the problem. jon@jon-laptop:~$ dpkg --configure -a dpkg: requested operation requires superuser privilege jon@jon-laptop:~$ ....I actually feel like I want to know how to have superuser priviledges. I have before with all other instilations.... -- 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