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Re: [LUG] Ubuntu 9.04 install.

 

jon.davey@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx wrote:
> jon.davey@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx writes:
>   
>> kevin writes: 
>>     
>>> There's only one
>>> Minions Shop
>>>       
>> LOL ! 
>>     
>
> ...It's OK now though. I have sucessfully got ubuntu 9.04 installed onto the 
> harddrive of my lappy. :)
>    Strangly the way I solved it was by installing XP. Then running the 
> installer from within Windows. It worked a treat.
>   
That's good, I understand installing as an application runs a little bit 
slower but the main thing is you got it working.
>   Only thing is I thought that I would be able to watch youtube without too 
> much re-configuring. So I did ;
> apt -get flashplayer nonfree
> not that exact command but the one that is on the flash player site and it 
> still doesn't work. Youtube says that I don't have the latest version of 
> Flash installed. Aside from this I am really liking 9.04 or whatever silly 
> name they have given it...
> JOn. 
>   
Installing ubuntu-restricted-extras will sort out the problem for you.

Either open a terminal and enter:

sudo apt-get install ubuntu-restricted-extras

or search for it in Add/Remove programs or Synaptic.  What it will do is 
download and install all the codecs you need to play non-free 
proprietary video/audio files, and it'll also download Flash from Adobe 
and install it along with a few other bits (IIRC Java and the Microsoft 
Truetype fonts such as Ariel, Times New Roman, Tahoma, Verdana etc).

Rob


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