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Post by Empyrion Martyr on Apr 8, 2008 15:17:07 GMT -5
hi ppl, I seem to have some issues with a linux computer (i never touched linux until a couple of weeks ago). My school has this contract with a radio... We got a Linux Gentoo-powered computer which plays music every break etc... problem is i'm kinda in charge of using it every break and i gotta do something with the time, i tried visiting youtube but it says java might not be installed. I downloaded it, installed it, same with Adobe Flash player, but the youtube error kept coming up. what else could possibly be wrong? i searched the net for solutions and some say that java must be enabled in the konsole terminal? Any help would be appreciated from linux users... cheerz.
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Post by matthew on Apr 8, 2008 15:28:40 GMT -5
Most of the people on the Basic4GL forum who use Linux, have Ubuntu installed. Maybe you'd get better help if you asked on a Gentoo forum.
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Post by Empyrion Martyr on Apr 8, 2008 15:29:21 GMT -5
made an account on that forum 10x for the help
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Post by Pizzasgood on Apr 9, 2008 19:58:30 GMT -5
YouTube uses Java? I'm running Gentoo right now (taking a break from Pizzapup to learn more about other distros), and I don't have Java installed yet, just Flash. YouTube seems to be working. Anyways, when you get Java installed you need to make sure it's enabled in Firefox. Edit -> Preferences -> Content. As for installing it, I'm not sure what the Gentoo specific procedure is. There isn't an official ebuild as far as I can see, so if I were installing it I'd probably just got to the Java site, download the Linux installer, run it from the commandline, and then check that it put plugins in the correct place. If it didn't, I'd do that myself. In my install, firefox is at /usr/lib/mozilla-firefox/, so after I tracked down the plugin (somewhere inside /usr/share/java, but I don't remember the exact path) I'd symlink it to /usr/lib/mozilla-firefox/plugins/. I don't know if you can login as root on that machine or not. If not, you'd have to install the plugin to your home directory. $HOME/.mozilla/plugins/ (that's a hidden directory, due to starting with a . ). I don't know if you'd be able to install the rest of Java as a limited user though. I'm used to Puppy, which doesn't officially support users other than root (they can be added, but getting things set up so they can use X properly is supposed to be a pain, and the majority of what I do requires me to be root anyways, so I don't bother. Most Linux people consider my attitude to be sacrilegious of course.) I don't even know what that's supposed to mean. I've installed it manually in Puppy several times, and never did anything similar to "enabling it in the terminal". Good luck. EDIT: I take that back. There is too an official ebuild. Several actually. I was looking for "java" rather than "jre". Stupid. Check out this page: www.gentoo.org/doc/en/java.xmlUSE="nsplugin" emerge sun-jre-bin -p^-that shows what will be installed USE="nsplugin" emerge sun-jre-bin^-that will actually install it. The USE="nsplugin" part tells it to create a plugin for Mozilla-type browsers.
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Post by Empyrion Martyr on Apr 11, 2008 2:26:11 GMT -5
10x pizzasgood ill take a look at what can be done with that computer, whether i have root access and how to install java (although it appears installed). As far as i remeber, there is yet another problem, for some reason Mozilla has troubles starting and crashes a second after it starts. Opera works fine, but i'm nto sure youtube on opera for linux works correctly. I'm not familiar with linux terminology but by enablind java in the terminal i meant something like accessing the "cmd" in windows and writing some commands to set environment varaibles or paths. srry for the ambiguity (shame on me for not trying to learn more on linux stuff ) Anyways if i can't get mozilla to work properly, is there any other gentoo browser you know of that might support viewing youtube movies? I found out about several but i'm not sure how well they are supported in gentoo, and how well they use jre, flash etc. million 10x again for the trouble, i'll see what i can do in the D.A.M.N school on monday (right now i kinda yelled at my romanian teacher cuz she'z dum and got kicked out of the class, and i went back home)... 10x again and i'll let you know if i manage to get things working...
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Post by DJLinux on Apr 11, 2008 3:59:50 GMT -5
Firefox and Opera works fine on my linux boxes and no problem with youtube.
Joshy (I use the mother of all Linux Distros SlackWare but it's nothing for beginners)
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Post by Supermonkey on Apr 11, 2008 4:24:10 GMT -5
I've only ever used ubuntu, I think ubuntu is basically the linux distro for windows users who want to pretend they are cool linux users (i.e. me)....
[edit] Actually thats a lie, I have GNULinux on my ps2....now that is nerdy!
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Post by cameron on May 5, 2008 1:35:22 GMT -5
Maybe someone gave the school a stuffed linux computer because they thought it would only be used for playing stuff over the P.A. system and not for web browsing.
My advice, ether get the Gentoo installation files and burn them to a CD-ROM, then format the hard-drive and start again (hey if it doesn't work just say a C virus formatted the drive, LoL), or try re-installing Mozilla Firefox completly (delete config files, make it a totally clean install)!
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Post by Empyrion Martyr on May 5, 2008 14:44:07 GMT -5
Maybe someone gave the school a stuffed linux computer because they thought it would only be used for playing stuff over the P.A. system and not for web browsing. Most probably 10x cameron, I'll try doing those when i can go back to school, right now i'm pretty ill and stuff and can't get anywhere near to anybody, let alone someone in school
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