Hi! I'm new to UBUNTU!

[Liam Proven]

On Sat, May 29, 2010 at 3:23 PM, Basil Chupin <blchupin at iinet.net.au> wrote:
> 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 :-( .

Oh come on! You have to do a *little* big of the legwork here.

To install a program, you type:

apt-get install programname

You replace "programname" with the name of the program you want. I
just installed Golly this afternoon; I used the Software Centre but if
I used the command line I'd have typed

apt-get install golly

Now the thing is that to install programs you have to be an
administrator; in Unix parlance, a "super user", as in "superhero".
The Superuser's name is "root".

On Ubuntu, you can't log in as the superuser; it's disabled for
security purposes.

But ordinary users can do things as the superuser when needed. You
achieve this with a command called "sudo": *s*uper *u*ser do.

So in full the command to install Golly would be:

sudo apt-get install golly

Don't install Golly, by the way. I love it, but it's a very
specialised sort of tool.

But if you wanted to install, say, Thunderbird email for use instead
of Evolution, you'd type:

sudo apt-get install thunderbird

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