Quick question.

Mathew Nowend doobledork at gmail.com
Tue May 3 02:01:09 UTC 2005


This is actually odd as far as flash goes, I went to a website
that said the flash plug in was required, I selected to 
download it through mozilla and it actually installed this
time. Now the question is the other items that are listed
on the unofficial guide I still get similiar errors and get stuck.

On 5/2/05, Senectus . <senectus at gmail.com> wrote:
> 
> 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:
> >
> >
> >
> > On 3/5/05 02:17, "Mathew Nowend" <doobledork at gmail.com> wrote:
> >
> >
> > 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
> >
> > on various other installs as well. Is there someething I am doing wrong?
> >
> > Thanks
> >
> >
> >
> > Do you have 'Universe' and 'Multiverse' enabled in your etc/apt/sources
> > file?
> >
> > Baza
> >
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