Installing Flash while using Fluxbox?

mossen · 11-13-2011, 06:57 PM

I installed Fluxbox on my Ubuntu 11.04 because I like it much better. But today I tried installing Flash, and its just not installing. I found it in the Ubuntu Software Center, clicked "install" but it doesn't do anything. My guess is it needs root permissions but since I'm not using Unity it maybe doesn't know how to pop-up that sudo box, or maybe there's some environment var it needs.

If I try downloading the apt from Adobe, it wants to open using Ubuntu Software Center. But again, same problem.

How do I temporarily switch back to Unity to try this out?

mossen · 11-13-2011, 07:31 PM

OK, I figured out that if you download the flash tar.gz, there is a .so in there, and you just drop it in the firefox plugin dir and restart firefox. I'd still like to know how to switch the window manager back, just in case I need it later. Any ideas?

widget · 11-13-2011, 07:40 PM

OK, what on earth are you doing. You seem to have a lot of posts here. Has your OS up and died on you?

I don't care what you have as a DE at all you always have a terminal and it should even be in your menu under console, terminal, terminal emulator or even konsole.

Find it. Do this;

Code:

sudo su

Code:

apt-get update

Code:

apt-get install <package>

or you could instead of the above do;

Code:

sudo <package name of USC

which would bring up USC as root.
or

Code:

sudo <file browser name>

which will bring up your file browser as root in which case you can go to /usr/share/applications and find the USC and double click on it.
Or you could hit Ctrl+Alt+F2 and your screen will go blank and you will have a command line there.

frankbell · 11-13-2011, 09:36 PM

I don't think this likely a Fluxbox issue.

I've avoided Ubuntu One, but when I've used Synaptic on Ubuntu under Fluxbox, the "sudo" box (that's a nice way of describing it, by the way) has always popped up.

You can change back to Gnome at the login screen. After selecting or entering the login name, a "sessions menu" will appear. In 11.10, you click the little circle to the upper right of the login dialog; in earlier versions, it appeared in the bottom of the screen.

mossen · 11-14-2011, 02:06 AM

frankbell: thanks! I didn't notice the window manager list before at the bottom of the screen, i can switch between them now.

widget: not sure what you mean by "You have a lot of posts". this is my 2nd post in about a year. and i didn't think i could install flash via apt-get because its proprietary, hence the original question. when I mentioned "the sudo box" i didn't mean the terminal, i meant the GUI box that Unity pops up when asking for the root password

i still can't figure out why the GUI sudo box isn't popping up in fluxbox but i guess that's another question...everything else is working

thanks guys

MTK358 · 11-14-2011, 07:53 AM

Quote:

Originally Posted by mossen

i didn't think i could install flash via apt-get because its proprietary, hence the original question.

Ubuntu Software Center and apt-get are GUI and command-line front ends to the same thing.

snowday · 11-14-2011, 08:31 AM

Use "sudo" for terminal apps that need root privs, and "gksu" for GUI apps that need root privs.

For example "gksu synaptic" to run Synaptic Package Manager.

Hope that helps, good luck!