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Ubuntu 8.04 Questions.
Ok, so I just installed Ubuntu 8.04 on my laptop, and I want to view flash video's on youtube and such, but it won't let me install a flash player, does anyone know how I can fix this?
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Jun 26th, 2008, 8:47 PM
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Re: Ubuntu 8.04 Questions.
If I remember correctly, the package for Flash is flashplugin-nonfree.
In that case, the command to run would be sudo aptitude update to first update the repositories and then sudo aptitude install flashplugin-nonfree Although if I've remembered the name incorrectly, you can always search all packages available with something like: aptitude search flash
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Re: Ubuntu 8.04 Questions.
it gives me this for an error after i tried the first one
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Jun 26th, 2008, 11:58 PM
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Re: Ubuntu 8.04 Questions.
Well, like the error says, at some point you probably interrupted an update. The message also helpfully tells you how to fix it, by running dpkg --configure -a. Do that, then try again.
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Jun 27th, 2008, 4:48 AM
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Re: Ubuntu 8.04 Questions.
ok, sounds good.
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Re: Ubuntu 8.04 Questions.
since i'm new to linux, how would i run that since when i put in dpkg --configure -a it gives me this error
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Jun 27th, 2008, 8:13 AM
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Re: Ubuntu 8.04 Questions.
You will have to run it like this
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Jun 27th, 2008, 2:03 PM
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Re: Ubuntu 8.04 Questions.
Thanks everyone, it works now
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