Hi! I'm new to UBUNTU!

[Calcpage]

Thanx for the apt-get command lone.  I also have a problem getting apt- 
get to do anything, it just hangs....

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On May 28, 2010, at 9:29 PM, Basil Chupin <blchupin at iinet.net.au> wrote:

> 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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