ubuntu

[Apollo]

Well I installed ubuntu on this computer, and boy is nothing working right. First, none of the software packages can be found, including the stuff that is supported by Ubuntu. So, I can't install anything for shit, I click the refresh button, and it does install a package of 6 files, then nothing really happens.

I installed the 64bit CD that I order from Ubuntu and it installed completely on this computer so could it be that. This computer is a Acer AMD64 Athlon, which I am assuming is a 64bit computer.

HELP!

oh, as it was installing Ubuntu, it said that it could not install the security tool because I had my ethernet in my other computer. Could that be a problem, and where do I find those security tools?

This is also Gutsy Gibbons

 

[Apollo]

ahhh it is all familar to me, why i hate linux,

i dont understand how you install a program. i am trying to install the flash pluggin for firefox, so i open it in archive manager, and no dice. it is just a folder and apparantly the tar.giz is not supported, lord almighty

so i extract the files? and it still doesnt work. i do what adobe tells me to do in the terminal and nope,

 

[Apollo]

oh it was all automatic, it is after it was installed that all the problems arose.

so i just tried to install the flash pluggin straight through the browser and it saaaays. "cannot find 'flashpluggin - nonfree'"

 

[Apollo]

i tried to get it to open in synaptic, but i couldn't for some reason, but i will do the search instead i guess.

synaptic couldnt find it

 

[Apollo]

i will do that tonight. i had to get the zune software setup on this computer and my stuff in order, but i do have the screen shots. I will also ask these questions on the ubuntu forums.

i might go for Linux Mint though, is it more complicated that Ubuntu though? I mean, Ubuntu is farely easy to use, it just is having some weird problems. And would Jokosher and Ardour work on Linux Mint?

 

[Apollo]

I got a 32bit live CD, but I gave it to my friend, and I will never see that live CD again.

 

[Apollo]

Ok here they are.

This is the firefox problem:

Here it is in archive manager:

here is the real problem, i cant install any software at all, it just wont let me. everytime i try, i get this message:

so then i click refresh and it does this:

and then nothing else happens. i try and again and that happens again.

 

[Apollo]

oh, on the website it said for gutsy gibbons to go into add/remove to do a search for joko

 

[davy]

don't waste your time: adobe doesn't believe in 64 bit architecture, so they don't build flash for 64bit processors. instead, you're going to have to run a mixed mode kernel and i can already tell that setting that up is out of your technical league.

do what orionfyre said and install the 32 bit version.

 

[Apollo]

ok so i fixed it. the terminal command didnt work, you forgot to add sudo, so it asked if i was root. so i added sudo, and it couldn't find the file.

well i went into synaptic, and i went into it's settings and clicked everything not clicked. i did this earlier but clicked the revert button so all that i clicked was unclicked and i am so stupid i didn't piece two and two together.

anyway, i did a new search for jokosher and it found it and is now installed. so woopie!!!

 

[Apollo]

don't waste your time: adobe doesn't believe in 64 bit architecture, so they don't build flash for 64bit processors. instead, you're going to have to run a mixed mode kernel and i can already tell that setting that up is out of your technical league.

do what orionfyre said and install the 32 bit version.

well run it by me, and lets see if I can do it.

 

[davy]

ok so i fixed it. the terminal command didnt work, you forgot to add sudo, so it asked if i was root. so i added sudo, and it couldn't find the file.

well i went into synaptic, and i went into it's settings and clicked everything not clicked. i did this earlier but clicked the revert button so all that i clicked was unclicked and i am so stupid i didn't piece two and two together.

anyway, i did a new search for jokosher and it found it and is now installed. so woopie!!!

congratulations! you now have a mixed mode kernel.

i'm surprised ubuntu does it automatically.

 

[davy]

ubuntu is SO going to turn into another suse.

 

[Apollo]

wtf is a mixed mode kernal?

 

[underwearguy]

make it easy on yourself and upgrade!

HoaryHedgehog

Hoary Hedgehog is the second release of Ubuntu succeeding Warty Warthog and preceding BreezyBadger. It was released on April 8, 2005.

it works great!

 

[Apollo]

ummm, thats a little old. and i am not that much of a coder. i would imagine i will need to know a awful lot about linux and unix stuff to use it.

 

[justgofaster]

The beta of ubuntu 8.04 is now available. This is the last pre-release version before the final, stable 8.04 ("Hardy Heron") is released April 24, 2008.

http://releases.ubuntu.com/releases/8.04/

It's still in beta. But it rocks. Many, many improvements over 7.10 - especially for first-timers to Linux.

 

[jspk]

i believe current flash doesn't work in 64-bit. the thing is 64-bit kernel break a lot of apps. better just run it in 32-bit; more compatible.

also alternative solution, download the tarball from adobe, extract to temp directory, eg /tmp; then run the installer or just put the library in the firefox plugins directory. btw most like you'll need root access--aka under 'sudo'/'gksu'

 

[davy]

wtf is a mixed mode kernal?

64-bit linux that will run 32-bit stuff