Hi! I'm new to UBUNTU!

[Basil Chupin]

On 29/05/10 10:19, calcpage at aol.com wrote:
> Hi, everyone, I just installed Ubuntu for the very first time (desktop
> edition 10.04 on 64bit AMD Athlon dualcore) and like what I see so far.
>   I am new to Ubuntu, but not to Debian.
>
> I teach Computer Science at the local High School.  I maintain a lab of
> Linux boxes for my students to login to a remote sftp server I setup
> for them to do projects and save their work.  For the longest time we
> were a KNOPPIX shop (except the server which was Slackware).
>
> This year we got new 64bit hardware and were experimenting all year
> with 64bit distros.  We seemed to home in on Red Hat&  gnome
> environments like Fedora, CentOS and Rocks.  We've been having a lot of
> issues with these environments, not the least of which was recognizing
> our dual nics.  Well, Ubuntu recognized them right out of the box and
> even configured them the way we wanted (one public and one private).  I
> think I like the Debian/gnome combo too!
>
> Anyway, I tell you all this by way of introduction so you can
> understand our situation.  We do have a little problem.  We use a lot
> of java enabled sites like www.javawide.org, www.sagenb.org and
> www.screencast-o-matic.com so jre support in a browser is very
> important to us.  I cannot seem to get Firefox to install the jre,
> however.  Is there some trick to this?  Also, I tried to apt-get
> install something simple like bzflag-server and nothing happened.  Do I
> have to update the repository addresses somehow?
>    


Under System>Administration>Software Sources did you select all the 
appropriate sources for the software - especially the one restricted 
because of copyrights?

BC

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