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Rob Beard writes: > jon.davey@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx wrote: >> Rob Beard writes: >>> jon.davey@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx wrote: >>>> OK, the curser on my laptop running Vista just disapears.<snip> but I need a bit of advise >>>> on installing Java for Firefox. >>>> THe instructions are; >>>> 1. Install Java Runtime Environment. >>>> 2. Make a symbolic link to libjavaplugin_oji.so in your Mozilla Plugins >>>> directory. Use the copy located in the plugin/i386/ns7 directory of JRE 5.0 >>>> or later, or plugin/i386/ns610-gcc32 if you are using JRE 1.4.2. >>>> ....so, OK, fair enough. Except I don't know how to make a symbolic link. I >>>> don't expect it's too difficult. Should I google it? Or is it more complex >>>> that that? >>>> CHeers, JOn DAvey >>>> >>> I can't see why you should need to create symbolic links for Java, I've >>> managed it by just installing sun-java6-jre and sun-java6-plugin. >> This should help... >>> http://en.kioskea.net/faq/sujet-741-installing-java-under-ubuntu >>> This is assuming though that you're running the standard 32-bit version >>> of Ubuntu and not the 64-Bit AMD64/EM64T version (which from what I >>> understand you do need to do a bit more messing around to get Firefox >>> and Java to work together. >>> Good to hear your experience with Ubuntu was good.<snip> >>> Rob >> ...thanks. not so sure about retreaving thoes files though. I told Ubuntu to >> use the whole drive during the partitioning. That would've formated the >> whole disk right? >> Cheers, JOn DAvey > Ahh yeah if you've wiped the whole disk then yeah it's most likely gone > (it might be recoverable but the time and effort it would take to > recover it, it's probably not worth it). > Rob ...that link was usefull and I've installed java. Only thing is Youtube is still telling me that java's turned off or I don't have the latest version of Flash. NOw I've tried installing flash from Synaptic and it's asked me for administrator priviledges which shouldn't be a problem but I don't recall being asked to create a SU account during the install and if I was I have a default password that I use for EVERYTHING so's I never forget, and this isn't working. HOw do I get SU privilidges if I never created a SU account?......I'm a bit baffeled... -- The Mailing List for the Devon & Cornwall LUG http://mailman.dclug.org.uk/listinfo/list FAQ: http://www.dcglug.org.uk/linux_adm/list-faq.html