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jon.davey@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx wrote: > 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.... > > Don't worry it should be easy enough to sort out. In a terminal window type in the following: sudo dpkg --configure -a That should sort out the dpkg problem hopefully, then try running... sudo apt-get install flashplugin-nonfree ...again. 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