Hi! I'm new to UBUNTU!

[calcpage at aol.com]

Thanx for stating the "bleeding obvious," but I did use "sudo."

I'm serious, please state the obvious as I am new to Ubuntu!

BTW, I find it strange that I can't use "su."  Can I login as root?

TIA,
A. Jorge Garcia
http://shadowfaxrant.blogspot.com

Teacher & Professor
Applied Mathematics, Physics & Computer Science
Baldwin Senior High School & Nassau Community College


-----Original Message-----
From: Basil Chupin <blchupin at iinet.net.au>
To: ubuntu-users at lists.ubuntu.com
Sent: Fri, May 28, 2010 10:40 pm
Subject: Re: Hi!  I'm new to UBUNTU!

On 29/05/10 11:46, Calcpage wrote:
>
> On May 28, 2010, at 9:29 PM, Basil Chupin<blchupin at iinet.net.au>  
wrote:
>
>
>> On 29/05/10 10:19, calcpage at aol.com wrote:
>>
>>> Hi, everyone, I just installed Ubuntu for the very first time
>>> (desktop
>>> edition 10.04 on 64bit AMD Athlon dualcore) and like what I see so
>>> far.
>>>   I am new to Ubuntu, but not to Debian.
>>>
>>> I teach Computer Science at the local High School.  I maintain a
>>> lab of
>>> Linux boxes for my students to login to a remote sftp server I setup
>>> for them to do projects and save their work.  For the longest time 
we
>>> were a KNOPPIX shop (except the server which was Slackware).
>>>
>>> This year we got new 64bit hardware and were experimenting all year
>>> with 64bit distros.  We seemed to home in on Red Hat&   gnome
>>> environments like Fedora, CentOS and Rocks.  We've been having a
>>> lot of
>>> issues with these environments, not the least of which was
>>> recognizing
>>> our dual nics.  Well, Ubuntu recognized them right out of the box 
and
>>> even configured them the way we wanted (one public and one
>>> private).  I
>>> think I like the Debian/gnome combo too!
>>>
>>> Anyway, I tell you all this by way of introduction so you can
>>> understand our situation.  We do have a little problem.  We use a 
lot
>>> of java enabled sites like www.javawide.org, www.sagenb.org and
>>> www.screencast-o-matic.com so jre support in a browser is very
>>> important to us.  I cannot seem to get Firefox to install the jre,
>>> however.  Is there some trick to this?  Also, I tried to apt-get
>>> install something simple like bzflag-server and nothing happened.
>>> Do I
>>> have to update the repository addresses somehow?
>>>
>>>
>>
>> Under System>Administration>Software Sources did you select all the
>> appropriate sources for the software - especially the one restricted
>> because of copyrights?
>>
>> BC
>>
>>

Thanx for the apt-get command lone.  I also have a problem getting apt-
get to do anything, it just hangs....

Sent from my iPod


Umm, would I be overstating the bleeding obvious if I stated that the 
apt-get command is really "sudo apt-get......"?

BC

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