I have finally got my kubuntu online!! I donloade shockwave flashplayer but I can not open the files. I also was looking for Firefox but everything I dowload seems to be in a zipped -tar file and I do not know how to open them. I am really new to all this. Can any one please help?
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Re: Trouble opening downloads
First, you have to install a package that will compile those files:
sudo apt-get install build-essential
Then you cd to the download directory and untar
tar xzvf filename.tar.gz
Then you cd to the directory filename. Lastly, you install (usually these steps, but read the read file)
./configure
make
sudo make install
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Re: Trouble opening downloads
You might find this interesting:
https://help.ubuntu.com/community/Shockwave
Long story short, Shockwave won't run on Linux. You need Wine.Comment
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