Hi! I'm new to UBUNTU!

[Basil Chupin]

On 29/05/10 23:05, Karl Larsen wrote:
> 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?
>    

I have never claimed to be a smart person so the question you ask does 
not apply to me.

On the other hand I would have expected a smart person such as yourself 
to have come up with the appropriate command line statement long before 
this stage to help the OP to try and solve his problem.

BTW (in case you don't know what BTW stands for, BTW stands for *B*y 
*T*he *W*ay), what is your suggestion to type "sudo apt-get install 
filename" on a command line supposed to actually achieve? I've tried the 
command *exactly* as you suggested and got absolutely nowhere :'( . 
You're a really great help :-( .

BC

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