Quick question.

Senectus . senectus at gmail.com
Tue May 3 01:38:26 UTC 2005


Personally I found it easier to just do a search in synaptic for
"flash" then install the "non-free" version of flash (the other
versions (free) make both my laptop and desktops run like a pig).
"non-free" in this case means it's not open source or under the GPL.

On 5/3/05, Baza <baza at themauvezone.fsnet.co.uk> wrote:
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>  On 3/5/05 02:17, "Mathew Nowend" <doobledork at gmail.com> wrote:
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> Hello all,
>  I have a question that I am hoping someone might be able to help me
>  resolve.  I did a clean install of Ubuntu today and I was following the 
>  "Unofficial Ubuntu 5.04 Starter Guide" I was able to install Java fine 
>  without any issues.  However, when I went to install Flash I "cut n paste"
>  as instructed by the guide which was the following step.
>  
>  sudo apt-get install flashplayer-mozilla
>  
>  Reading package lists... Done
>  Building dependency tree... Done
>  E: Couldn't find package flashplayer-mozilla
>  
>  I was logged in as root.  This is the message I received. It has happened 
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>  on various other installs as well.  Is there someething I am doing wrong?  
>  
>  Thanks
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>  Do you have 'Universe' and 'Multiverse' enabled in your etc/apt/sources
> file?
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>  Baza
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