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Rob Beard writes: > 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.<snip> >> > 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 I did try synaptic. 'apt-get restricted areas' worked fine though. How come it isn't 'apt-get flashplayer-nonfree' any more then?.... JOn. -- 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