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Flash player and Installing Mozilla or Firefox!
Hi all!
Thank you for this great forum.
I've been trying to search on Internet for straight answers on my simple questions. I'm now running Knoppix 6.2 from bootable CD. I just want to view some flash like youtube, is there any place it is written how to do this step by step with a normal config as mine??
I do understand that Mozilla is included in the CD but I just cannot find the program manager /KDE or whatever it's called to actually installed programs such as Mozilla or Firefox from the CD. At the moment I'm running IceWeasel like the standard... and of course I've been searching for options how to make flash work with this browser...
I tried to download tar.gz from adobe.com and extracted into usr/lid/mozilla/plugins and usr/lid/iceweasel/plugins and restarted iceweasel totally and still nothing. I looked in Manager Add-ons and it only find the standard preinstalled Java runtime.
Sorry, I'm new to Knoppix but love it, kind of.
Dennis
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Junior Member
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If it's like version 6.0, then you open the root terminal (it's in the menu under 'system' or 'accesories'), do an
then
Code:
apt-get install flashplugin-nonfree
If you have Iceweasel already opened then you must close and open it again for flash to work.
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6.2 and flash
I am new to koppix and want to update the flash player so I can view Hulu. I tried, b ut get these errors. I coulod use some help. Also I am running .2 on a 4gig flash drive I install as live with untetbotin.
knoppix@Microknoppix:~$ apt-get update
E: Could not open lock file /var/lib/apt/lists/lock - open (13: Permission denied)
E: Unable to lock the list directory
knoppix@Microknoppix:~$ apt-get install flashplugin-nonfree
E: Could not open lock file /var/lib/dpkg/lock - open (13: Permission denied)
E: Unable to lock the administration directory (/var/lib/dpkg/), are you root?
knoppix@Microknoppix:~$
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Senior Member
registered user
You need to have root privileges . Try opening a Root Terminal from the Accessories menu and running the commands there.
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Re: 6.2 and flash
Originally Posted by
m005k
I am new to koppix and want to update the flash player so I can view Hulu. I tried, b ut get these errors. I coulod use some help. Also I am running .2 on a 4gig flash drive I install as live with untetbotin.
knoppix@Microknoppix:~$ apt-get update
E: Could not open lock file /var/lib/apt/lists/lock - open (13: Permission denied)
E: Unable to lock the list directory
knoppix@Microknoppix:~$ apt-get install flashplugin-nonfree
E: Could not open lock file /var/lib/dpkg/lock - open (13: Permission denied)
E: Unable to lock the administration directory (/var/lib/dpkg/), are you root?
knoppix@Microknoppix:~$
I opened LXTerminal (black icon down near the "Start button") and then:
sudo apt-get update
after much shilly-shalley'ing (connecting to sources on the web) I was then able to:
sudo apt-get install flashplugin-nonfree
which was followed by more automatic goodies, and flash was now available.
FYI, I had a lot of trouble trying to install Chrome (everybody should try it!), which I had the .deb for, and after much non-useful work using both synaptic and apt-get, it was easy:
sudo dpkg -i /path/to/MYPKG.deb
Hope this helps!
-Krishna
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Originally Posted by
rusty
You need to have root privileges . Try opening a Root Terminal from the Accessories menu and running the commands there.
I tried both terminal windows and got the same error. My flash drive is letter E, that I burned the live DVD image to. I think that is why I'm getting the errors. Do I have to mount E drive or something?
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Originally Posted by
m005k
Originally Posted by
rusty
You need to have root privileges . Try opening a Root Terminal from the Accessories menu and running the commands there.
I tried both terminal windows and got the same error. My flash drive is letter E, that I burned the live DVD image to. I think that is why I'm getting the errors. Do I have to mount E drive or something?
Take a look at the /etc/fstab - that'll tell you how to designate the flash drive.
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I tried to perform apt-get update and it nears completion, but then then my monitor turns off and my keyboard will not respond. Not even the caps lock light will turn on. I have to simply push the power button.
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Originally Posted by
Anymouse
I tried to perform apt-get update and it nears completion, but then then my monitor turns off and my keyboard will not respond. Not even the caps lock light will turn on. I have to simply push the power button.
I'm not sure what's happening, but it sounds like it COULD be a corrupt copy of Knoppix. One option, if you haven't gotten far in using the installed version you have been on, is to just erase the KNOPPIX folder and replace it - using a verified copy. I'd run the md5sum on the ISO image and see if it is a good download, or boot the CD/DVD and use the "verify" option before re-copying. Is there any chance that the hardware is bad, or is it working okay with another OS?
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I ran knoppix testcd and it checked out fine. I have 256 MB of memory, and am running from the cd only. All I can think is that there isn't enough memory to handle the updates, but then how can I so easily run LXDE?
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