Hi! I'm new to UBUNTU! - hijacked from: Goodbye Linux/Ubuntu

[sdavmor]

On 05/28/2010 07:04 PM, NoOp wrote:
> On 05/28/2010 05:43 PM, Lachlan Musicman wrote:
>> On Sat, May 29, 2010 at 10:19,<calcpage at aol.com>  wrote:
>>> 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?
>>
>> Try:
>>
>> sudo apt-get install sun-java6-jre sun-java6-plugin
>
> And in the process, *please* start a new thread when posting rather
> than hijacking another thread.
>
> @calcpage at aol.com: what this means is to start a new clean subject
> email rather than simply replying to another email and changing the
> subject.
>
> Apparently someone changed the link while doing the new/improved
> ubuntu.com webpages from:
> http://www.ubuntu.com/support/Community/mailinglists/etiquette so I
> guess this is the new/improved link:
>
> http://www.ubuntu.com/support/community/mailinglists [Threading]
>
> So, please start a *new* email/thread&  I'm sure that you'll get as
> much help as this list can provide. Note: the primary reason for
> doing this is twofold: 1) many list users may have already
> killfiled the ' Goodbye Linux/Ubuntu' thread so will never see your
> post, and 2) it's just common courtesy to not hijack other
> threads.
>
> That said, welcome to Ubuntu&  to the list. Start a new thread&
> I/folks will be more than happy to assist if possible.

Well said, NoOp. Perfectly expressed without going postal on the
"hijacker".
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