So Linux is not as easy to administer as Windows April 2, 2006
Posted by samdenby in Linux, Preparation.5 comments
Using Firefox on my new Ubuntu desktop, I loaded www.designer-info.com, Tom Arah's very useful site. First snag – he uses Flash, and Ubuntu does not load the Flash plugin for Firefox. So I found out how to install a Firefox plugin (quite like Windows), and downloaded Flash. But this is where the big diffference comes: Flash will not self-install under Linux. I had to open Terminal and "navigate to the folder where flashplayer-installer has been stored". After a quick crash course on the cd command, I got there and managed to run the command which installed Flash. But there was another sting in the tail: "please ask your administrator to remove the file xpti.dat from the Firefox components folder". I have no idea what would happen if I ignored the request, but I decided to play safe and renove the file. So I used the File Browser to find the path to Firefox components. I could not delete the file in the Browser because I did not have the authority, so back to Terminal and more use of cd. A quick look in my Linux Bible to learn the rm command, and xpti.dat was gone. Back into Firefox, and the designer-info site was now flashing away.
Windows has still got quite an edge for the home administrator… but I'm learning.
