making progress

[kengr]

Well, I've not only got a Kubuntu system running,. I've gotten myself out of trouble on my own.

The Adept installer had quit working (complaining about a database in use). A bit of googling and remembering to use "sudo" in front of a few commands and I had things going again. Including finishing the Sun Java install from the command line.

Now I'm working on getting flash to work in Firefox.

Comments

[mikkop.livejournal.com]

If you didn't get it to work already, here's my solution:

install the package 'flashplayer-nonfree' from the multiverse repositories. (Adept menu Adept -> manage repositories, check the multiverse checkbox.) I have download set to server for Finland in that dialog, so I don't know if that has an effect.

Firefoxes which use that package are both 'firefox' and 'firefox-2'. I use the version 2 at home and 3 at work, both seem to work.

The non-free Flash player seems to leak some memory, so it's not an ideal solution. Never found that to be trouble enough to try out the free versions, though.

[mistresscayenne.livejournal.com]

I have the same problem with Adept. Next time you come over help me fix it.

Chrissy Michelle
http://www.cayennephotos.com/

[kengr]

Click on the K& gearwheel icon in the bottom left. Select "System". Then select Konsole or whatever terminal program you have.

That gets you a "terminal session" (ie a command line window)

at the prompt type:
sudo dpkg --config -a

This will go thru a bunch of stuff, and produce some error messages.

Try it a couple of times until the messages don't change. Then copy those to the clipboard, and send them to me and I'll tell you the next step.