Ubuntu problems and questions

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For one, in order to enable desktop effects, you'll need to install the ATI proprietary video card drivers. the Open Source drivers don't support 3D acceleration very well.

Anything should be able to atleast install WINE, just make sure your installing the proper version [IE 32 bit for i386 architecture and 64 bit for AMD_64].

AFAIK there isn't anything like a device manager for Linux, but if your looking for a printout of all the devices you have installed, you can use 'lspci' in terminal.

And just make sure your trying to install stuff through aptitude. "apt-get install flashplayer-nonfree" "apt-get install wine" etc

well here are the errors I'm getting, and terminal doesn't want to cooperate either. I tried the commands you said and it didn't like them either.

Try this:

open terminal and type this

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This will install all the restricted stuff in one step. The only thing you will have left is to install your ATI drivers.

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it gave me an error saying that the restricted extras package couldn't be found. Do I need to pull it off the disc, the net, or give it a directory?

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Guide worked perfect on the first try.

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Good to know . Now go play some games.

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Seeing as no one has hit on this issue yet

For this, you need to install the dependency that it states is missing:

sudo apt-get install libnspr4-dev

Easy as that.

Although it sounds like you've fixed your issue, so it's probably installed now.

I'll try that at half time of the Bengals game

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it should pull it off the net for you

Do this:

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then

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This may be the problem with your missing dependency.
If you have never updated your packages it would not be able to find the packages you need.

well I've got problems resolved and problems created by resolving problems.

Now that I have FlashPlayer installed and running, I cant install anything else it gives me the error in the screenshot I've attached.

Somehow I get the feeling I'm having an abnormally bad start with Linux.

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You need to scroll that back over to the left so we can read it. Or make the window larger.

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Apparently you are having an abnormally bad start with Linux.

So perhaps you need to start over:

First off, please tell us EXACTLY how you installed the system, whether you ran updates after you installed it, whether you installed any extra drivers and how you did it. Be very detailed and verbose.

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Sorry forgot about the scroll, the part thats not visible says "I was not able to locate the file for the adobe-flashplugin package."

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it says: "The package adobe-flashplugin needs to be reinstalled, but I cannot find an archive for it."

Im starting to get fed up with this...

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I meant start from the very beginning. Right after you burned a CD and rebooted your computer with the CD in it.

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Take a deep breath and chill out before continuing.

Here's a question I think we all need answered: Your using Ubuntu 9.10, right? Is that 32 or 64 bit?

What are you using to install flash?

Are you using synaptic, apt-get or aptitude?

Or did you download a package from a website?

If you have downloaded something from the net that is your biggest problem. With ubuntu the way to install software is with one of the package managers. If you download a package from the web it may not have everything you need and will probally not work properly.

For beginners synaptic or the Ubuntu software center is the way to go.

Something is wrong you should not be having these problems. I have done dozens of installs on many different sets of hardware and have never had any of the problems you are having. This is why they are asking you to tell everything you have done from the beginning.

Linux is not hard but it is different from windows.