Hi Al,
You could probably fix the issues, but 8.10 has been unsupported for a
long time. Your time is limited, so you should move to Ubuntu 12.04,
since that is so much better in the long run.
I've found some bugs with Unity and Gnome 3 recently, but they're really
cool desktops, and you might enjoy checking them out with 12.04. The
default non-free Flash player in the standard repositories works very
well with Firefox and Chrome for me. Unless you're fanatically
Open-Source, I wouldn't recommend the non-closed Flash replacements like
gnash or lightspark.
Bonne Chance,
-Jeff
On 09/05/2012 11:47 AM, Al Plant wrote:
Jeff Mings wrote:
Ubuntu/HP? You mean an HP product with Ubuntu? Which Ubuntu version
number and desktop would that be?
I'm guessing that Synaptic, the GUI DEB package manager,
disappeared. If all else fails, aptitude is the best console /
terminal-based package manager I've seen. You can do _everything_
from that, with a menu-driven interface that doesn't take a lot of
time to get used to. I really wish the RPM/YUM package family under
Redhat / CentOS had something as excellent as aptitude.
Good Luck,
-Jeff
Aloha Jeff.
It is Ubunto 8.10 with the Synaptic manager.
It starts from a gui window and shuts off using alt/F2 to bring up the
gnome-terminal.
It works fine for everything but Flash and the menu features that
vanished (back button for example on the inet screen). The desktop is
just HP with small windows you click on to enlarge them. I never use
the photos, music and stuff on the screen.Its used for picking up
email when I travel and searching the net. And airline schedules,
checking in for flights etc.
Thanks ... AL
On 09/05/2012 10:17 AM, Al Plant wrote:
Aloha,
Seeing the post from Jeff reminded me to ask this.
I have a net book with Ubuntu/HP on it. (All of the rest of my boxes
run FreeBSD) And the last time the updates ran part of the menu
vanished to an auto select feature.
Also I no longer have any flash that works for this unit either.
Tried to update but doesnt finish install.
Does any one have a suggestion to any link to a how to make things
install on the version of Ubuntu that is on the machine? Or do I
have to upgrade the version?
Mahalo...
~Al Plant - Honolulu, Hawaii - Phone: 808-284-2740
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