Hi! I'm new to UBUNTU!
Karl Larsen
klarsen1 at gmail.com
Sat May 29 13:05:40 UTC 2010
On 05/28/2010 08:39 PM, Basil Chupin wrote:
> On 29/05/10 11:46, Calcpage wrote:
>
>> 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
>>>
>>>
>>>
> Thanx for the apt-get command lone. I also have a problem getting apt-
> get to do anything, it just hangs....
>
> Sent from my iPod
>
>
> Umm, would I be overstating the bleeding obvious if I stated that the apt-get command is really "sudo apt-get......"?
>
> BC
>
>
When you TRY to help a person it's a rule to give the person a
whole function, like this:
In a terminal type $ sudo apt-get install filename
Is that too hard for a smart person to do?
73 Karl
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