A Year with Linux
On Mon, 02 Jan 2006 16:29:12 GMT, Crashdamage staggered into the Black Sun and said:
Yes, but I believe what Enrique *meant* was "How easy is it to install Java or Flash on Ubuntu, and will everything work properly once those things are installed?" Ubuntu is Debian-based, and the Debian people have a serious Free bias. Installing non-Free stuff like mplayer (some of mplayer's codecs are only available as binary blobs) used to require a lot of ad-hockery on Debian systems. I think they've made this process easier now, but I'd have to go put the Debian hard disk in my laptop and reboot it to find out for sure.
One thing that seems to confuse a lot of people is the plugin directory for Netscape-derived browsers. There is no standard location for this directory AFAICT. Mine's atusr-lib-nsbrowser-plugins, YMMV. I have a symlink in this directory that points to the real Flash plugin atopt-netscape-plugins-libflashplayer.so . I may have had to manually create that symlink; I don't remember now as I installed the silly thing a long time ago. Manually creating symlinks is not rocket science, but Enrique may perceive it as "user unfriendly".
Peter T. Breuer I don't see any evidence that 'root' was obtained. Again, I know this not an...
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