I have a Lenovo netbook S!=-3s which is running both Windows 7 starter and Kubuntu 11.04 on a partitioned hard disk with plenty of space for both. My problem is the Flash player. I installed Flash-Aid on Firefox 5, but when I choose the Wizard option it goes to the terminal, sets things up, then tries unsuccessfully to download the program from updates.webgapps.org/flashplayer32. So I downloaded the program directly from Adobe using the tar.gz version. Trouble is, what do I do with this packet to get Flash installed? I've pored through a number of threads in hope of finding an answer, but so far have tried several methods without success. Flash-Aid worked fine on my Kubuntu desktop version, though I don't remember what I did. One thing I tried was to copy, then unzip the .so file into the root>/usr/lib/mozilla/plugins folder, but I couldn't paste it. I must be missing some step, but I don't know what it is.
The other--and really, the only other--problem with Kubuntu, and this is on both netbook and desktop versions, is that I cannot install ttf-mscorefonts-installer. When I use the terminal, it tries I don't know how many websites but cannot seem to download anything and gives up. I managed to install the program using the software management program, but even though it says the fonts are installed they do not show up on LibreOffice. Curiously, I had no problem at all installing the fonts on Ubuntu 11.04, which also uses LibreOffice (which looks and acts almost exactly like Open Office).
Any ideas? (Stupid question--this forum always has ideas.)
The other--and really, the only other--problem with Kubuntu, and this is on both netbook and desktop versions, is that I cannot install ttf-mscorefonts-installer. When I use the terminal, it tries I don't know how many websites but cannot seem to download anything and gives up. I managed to install the program using the software management program, but even though it says the fonts are installed they do not show up on LibreOffice. Curiously, I had no problem at all installing the fonts on Ubuntu 11.04, which also uses LibreOffice (which looks and acts almost exactly like Open Office).
Any ideas? (Stupid question--this forum always has ideas.)
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