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jon.davey@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx wrote: > 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. > I don't recall it ever being flashplayer-non free, doing a search points to flashplugin-nonfree but there is also adobe-flashplugin too. ubuntu-restricted-extras installs Flash along with a load of codecs, saves messing about adding Medibuntu. 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